Under the banner of a Holy War, masterminded in Berlin and unleashed from
Constantinople, the Germans and the Turks set out in 1914 to foment violent
revolutionary uprisings against the British in India and the Russians in Central
Asia. It was a new and more sinister version of the old Great Game, with world
domination as its ultimate aim. Here, told in epic detail and for the first
time, is the true story behind John Buchan's classic wartime thriller"
Greenmantle," recounted through the adventures and misadventures of the secret
agents and others who took part in it. It is an ominously topical tale today in
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