Mission To Tashkent.

A British intelligence officer in the Indian Army, Bailey (1882-1967) was with Francis Younghusband for the 1905 Invasion of Tibet, and served on the Western Front in World War I, where he was wounded three times. In 1915, he was appointed Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire, before in 1918, being sent on a mission to Tashkent in Central Asia, where he became one of the last protagonists of The Great Game - the fight for supremacy between the Russians and the British Empire along the Himalayas.

Bailey narrates here his journey from Sushtar in Persia to Tashkent in Uzbekistan, and also his escape from there; his mission was to discover the intentions of the new Bolshevik government in relation to India. When he returned to England, Bailey was received as a national hero. Numerous photographs taken by the author at the time illustrate this work.