| Description |
xiii, 274 pages : maps ; 25 cm |
| Note |
"Published in 2008 in England by Faber and Faber Unlimited"--T.p. verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-267) and index. |
| Summary |
Historian James Palmer relates the story of megalomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but short lived campaign to unify the Mongol people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. |
| Contents |
A son of crusaders and privateers -- The ends of the world -- Suspended between heaven and hell -- Things fall apart -- Carrion country -- Ragged crusade -- Lord of the steppe -- A hundred and thirty days -- The last adventurer -- Epilogue. |
| Subject |
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, 1885-1921.
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Generals -- Russia -- Biography.
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Mongolia -- History, Military -- 20th century.
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Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921.
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| ISBN |
9780465014484 U.S. alkaline paper |
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0465014488 U.S. alkaline paper |
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9780571230235 Br. |
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0571230237 Br. |
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