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A Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution

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''Chillingly original'' Max Hastings ''Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure'' Antony Beevor ''Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today''s events'' Anne Applebaum ''Britain''s most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered'' Simon Jenkins ''Vivid and remarkably timely'' Martin Sixsmith From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The extraordinary story of the West''s intervention into the Russian Civil War In the closing months of the First World War, Britain, America, France and Japan sent 180,000 soldiers to revolutionary Russia, in a doomed attempt to unseat the Bolsheviks. Entangled in what they termed a ''comic opera'' conflict, they crisscrossed the shattered empire in sleds, trains and paddlesteamers, bivouacked in log cabins and felt yurts, torpedoed warships from speedboats, improvised the world''s first air-dropped chemical weapons, and organised several coups and at least one assassination. Cheered on by Churchill, they also turned a blind eye to their Russian allies'' many atrocities. Two years later, as the Red Army swept the board, the West evacuated, leaving Russia more blood-stained and suspicious than ever. A Nasty Little War brings this forgotten misadventure vividly to life.

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Authors Anna Reid, Reid Anna
Publisher John Murray
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 18.07.2024
 
EAN 9781529326789
ISBN 978-1-5293-2678-9
No. of pages 384
Dimensions 128 mm x 196 mm x 30 mm
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
Non-fiction book

Russia, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, HISTORY / Russia / General, HISTORY / Revolutions, Uprisings & Rebellions

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