Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire
Peter Hopkirk recounts the secret wartime effort by German and Turkish agents to spark revolt against British rule across Asia, revealing a forgotten front of the First World War.
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Like Hidden Fire examines a little-known chapter of the First World War in which German and Ottoman agents sought to undermine British authority in Central Asia and India.
The narrative draws on archival sources to trace espionage, propaganda, and tribal alliances stretching from Constantinople to the North-West Frontier.
Peter Hopkirk places these events within the wider context of imperial rivalry and the collapse of old empires.
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