Still in the game : travels over seventy years

Hornyold, Antony F. G.2011

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Antony Hornyold, as a junior diplomat, was in Baghdad in 1958 when the young King Faisal II was assassinated and the British Embassy sacked by the mob. During his first geography lessons in Suffolk in the thirties, one third of the world was a reassuring red. Subsequently the Second World War took him to South Africa, National Service to Sierra Leone and the Foreign Office to the Middle East, Ghana and Pakistan. During these postings, encouraged by the early influence of Rider Haggard and James Hilton, he travelled to remote places. He grew up on Kipling and the Great Game which only ended with the Anglo-Russian agreement of 1907. A hundred years on, British soldiers are back in Afghanistan fighting with the descendants of the same tribesmen they fought in the 19th century. Hence the title of this book.