Nasty Little War - The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution (Reid Anna)(Pevná vazba)

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR''Thoroughly researched, stylish and entertaining'' Financial Times''A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama'' Observer''Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure'' Antony Beevor''Chillingly original'' Max Hastings''Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today''s events'' Anne ApplebaumFrom the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of UkraineThe extraordinary story of how the West tried to reverse the Russian Revolution. In the closing months of the First World War, Britain, America, France and Japan sent arms and 180,000 soldiers to Russia, with the aim of tipping the balance in her post-revolutionary Civil War. From Central Asia to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific, they joined anti-Bolshevik forces in trying to overthrow the new men in the Kremlin, in an astonishingly ambitious military adventure known as the Intervention.Fresh, in the case of the British, from the trenches, they found themselves in a mobile, multi-sided conflict as different as possible from the grim stasis of the Western Front. Criss-crossing the shattered Russian empire in trains, sleds and paddlesteamers, they bivouacked in snowbound cabins and Kirghiz yurts, torpedoed Red battleships from speedboats, improvised new currencies and the world''s first air-dropped chemical weapons, got caught up in mass retreats and a typhus epidemic, organised several coups and at least one assassination. Taking tea with
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