
Название: Duel In The Snows: The True Story Of The Younghusband Mission To Lhasa
Автор: Charles Allen
Издательство: John Murray Pubs Ltd
ISBN: 0719554292
Год: 2004
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 368
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 55,2 МБ
Язык: Английский
In December 1903 a British army marched over the Himalayas to counter a non-existent Russian threat and was confronted by a medieval Tibetan army ordered to stop it by non-violent means. It was a clash between the mightiest political power in the world and the weakest: a land of mystery locked behind the most formidable natural barriers on earth and governed by a reincarnate lama.