The day we almost bombed Moscow : the allied war in Russia, 1918-1920 / Christopher Dobson and John Miller
1986, First edition. London : Hodder and Stoughton. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #343155
ISBN: 0340337230
Physical description: 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-278) and index. Contents: "Permission to bomb?" -- "Treacherous desertion" -- Intervention by invitation -- The fighting starts -- Siberian scenario -- Oil and the twenty-six commissars -- The Bolo Liquidation Club -- More men, more money, more weapons -- General Ironside and Sergeant Parrish go to war -- Cattle Truck to Omsk -- The Lockhart plots -- "Too much of a warlord" -- King George's secret orders -- "Shameful, illegitimate little war" -- Mutiny and a Victoria cross -- The last battles -- Defeat and betrayal -- Spies, torpedoes and three lame tanks -- The Bolsheviks triumph. Subjects: 1918-1920. Soviet Union History Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
Soviet Union. Russian Soviet Republic (& U.S.S.R.) Civil War, 1918-22. Russian Soviet Republic (& U.S.S.R.) Foreign relations. Soviet Union Civil war Intervention by Allied forces, 1918-1920. Other names: Miller, John 1932-. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.
Price: €10.95