A Nasty Little War av Anna Reid

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 Applebaum From the bestselling author of Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine The 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