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Bayonets to Lhasa: The First Full Account of the British Invasion of the Tibet in 1904 (Oxford Paperbacks)
Bayonets to Lhasa The First Full Account of the British Invasion of the Tibet in 1904 - Oxford Paperbacks Author:Peter Fleming Published in 1961, BAYONETS TO LHASA is the account of the 1904 British invasion of Tibet--one of the strangest events in British imperial history. Conceived as a move in the Great Game which Russia and England had played for years in central Asia, the British incursion into Tibet was a shot in the dark. It was led by Colonel Francis Younghusb... more »and, soldier explorer and mystic. But Younghusband was caught in political cross-fire and in the end not only failed to accomplish his mission as he conceived it, but was publicly censured.« less