Peter Hopkirk

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1. Peter Hopkirk

   Author of The great game : on secret service in high Asia, Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia, Like Hidden Fire: The Plot to Bring Down the British Empire

2. Robert D. Kaplan

   Author of Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History, The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy, Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus

3. Thomas Pakenham

   Author of The Scramble for Africa, The Boer War

4. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War: 1890–1914, The Zimmermann Telegram

5. Colin Thubron

   Author of In Siberia, The Lost Heart of Asia, Behind the Wall: A Journey Through China

6. Karl E. Meyer

   Author of Tournament of Shadows, The Dust of Empire

7. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71

8. Patrick Leigh Fermor

   Author of A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Between the Woods and the Water, A Time to Keep Silence

9. Lawrence James

   Author of The Rise and Fall of the British Empire, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India

10. Jonathan D. Spence

    Author of The Search for Modern China, God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan, The Chan's Great Continent: China in Western Minds

11. Byron E. Farwell

    Author of Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Mr. Kipling's Army, Armies of the Raj: From the Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947

12. David Fromkin

    Author of A peace to end all peace

13. William Dalrymple

    Author of From the Holy Mountain, In Xanadu, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters

14. Peter Fleming

    Author of News from Tartary

15. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War

16. John Keegan

    Author of The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

17. Eric Newby

    Author of A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush, Slowly Down the Ganges (Picador Books), The Big Red Train Ride

18. John Julius Norwich

    Author of Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Byzantium: The Apogee

19. Fitzroy MacLean

    Author of Eastern Approaches

20. Donald R. Morris

    Author of The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879