Author: Edward Anthony Steel
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel ... 1880-1919
Author: Edward Anthony Steel
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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The Royal Engineers Journal
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners
Author: Rupert Wieloch
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1612007546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The dramatic account of 15 British soldiers abandoned in Bolshevik Russia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. In Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners, Rupert Wieloch details how the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 affected the Allied war effort. The threat drove the formation of an Allied force, including British, American, French, Czech, Italian, Greek, and Japanese troops, stationed across Russia to support the anti-Bolsheviks (the “White Russians”). But war-weariness and equivocation led Allied powers to dispatch just enough troops to maintain a show of interest in Russia’s fate, but not enough to give the “Whites” a real chance of victory. Among these troops is Emmerson MacMillan, an American engineer, who joins the British army in 1918. He becomes one of a select group of British soldiers ordered to “remain to the last” and organize the evacuation of refugees from Omsk in November 1919. After saving thousands of lives, they depart on the last train out of the city before it is seized by the Bolsheviks. But their mad dash for freedom through freezing temperatures ends when they are captured in Krasnoyarsk. Abandoned without communications, they endure a fearful detention and become an embarrassment to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and War Secretary Winston Churchill. After a traumatic incarceration, they survive against all the odds and are eventually released. As a new Cold War heats up, it is even more important to understand the origins of the modern relationship between Russia and the West. This stirring tale of courage and adventure only lifts the lid on an episode that sowed distrust and precipitated events in World War II and today.
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1612007546
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The dramatic account of 15 British soldiers abandoned in Bolshevik Russia during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. In Churchill’s Abandoned Prisoners, Rupert Wieloch details how the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 affected the Allied war effort. The threat drove the formation of an Allied force, including British, American, French, Czech, Italian, Greek, and Japanese troops, stationed across Russia to support the anti-Bolsheviks (the “White Russians”). But war-weariness and equivocation led Allied powers to dispatch just enough troops to maintain a show of interest in Russia’s fate, but not enough to give the “Whites” a real chance of victory. Among these troops is Emmerson MacMillan, an American engineer, who joins the British army in 1918. He becomes one of a select group of British soldiers ordered to “remain to the last” and organize the evacuation of refugees from Omsk in November 1919. After saving thousands of lives, they depart on the last train out of the city before it is seized by the Bolsheviks. But their mad dash for freedom through freezing temperatures ends when they are captured in Krasnoyarsk. Abandoned without communications, they endure a fearful detention and become an embarrassment to Prime Minister David Lloyd George and War Secretary Winston Churchill. After a traumatic incarceration, they survive against all the odds and are eventually released. As a new Cold War heats up, it is even more important to understand the origins of the modern relationship between Russia and the West. This stirring tale of courage and adventure only lifts the lid on an episode that sowed distrust and precipitated events in World War II and today.
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record
Author: Richard Henry Greene
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector
Author: Wilfred Partington
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
God Save the Queen
Author: US Army Military History Institute
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Category : Commonwealth countries
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
V. 1-3 include "Bibliographies of modern authors by Henry Danielson."
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
Book Description
V. 1-3 include "Bibliographies of modern authors by Henry Danielson."
Special Bibliographic Series
Author: US Army Military History Research Collection
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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The English Catalogue of Books
Author: Sampson Low
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1900
Book Description
Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.