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The Bloody White Baron
James Palmer
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Description for The Bloody White Baron
Paperback. 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 conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571230242
SKU
V9780571230242
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Ref
99-32
About James Palmer
James Palmer was born in 1981, lives in Beijing and has travelled extensively in East and Central Asia. This is his first book. He brings to it a knowledge of comparative religion as well as a deep fascination with the cultures and history of China and Mongolia.
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