The Bloody White Baron Hardback
by James Palmer
Hardback
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Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses.
He was a Kurtz-like figure, slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. And his is a story that rehearses later horrors in Russia and elsewhere.
James Palmer's book is an epic recreation of a forgotten episode and will establish him as a brilliant popular historian.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 1 x 8pp plate section
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
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- ISBN:9780571230235
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:288 pages, 1 x 8pp plate section
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:20/03/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571230235