A nasty little war The Western intervention into the Russian Civil War
Book - 2024
"Overlapping with and overshadowed by the First World War, the Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War was one of the most ambitious military ventures of the twentieth century. Launched in the summer of 1918, it drew in 180,000 troops from sixteen different countries in theaters ranging from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific. Though little remembered today, it stoked global political conflict worldwide for decades to come. In A Nasty Little War, historian Anna Reid offers a sweeping and deeply researched account of the conflict. Initially launched to prevent Germany from exploiting the power vacuum left by the Russian Revolution, the Intervention morphed into a bid to destroy Bolshevism on the battlefiel...d. But Allied arms and money could not prevent Russia's anti-Bolshevik armies from collapsing, and the Interventionists retreated in defeat. The humiliation checked Britain's imperial swagger, sapped American idealism, and destabilized France and Germany. Combining immersive storytelling and sharp analysis, A Nasty Little War reveals how the Allied Intervention reshaped the West's relationship with Russia." --
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Informational works
- Published
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New York :
Basics Books
2024.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First US edition
- Item Description
- Originally published in 2023 by John Murray in Great Britain.
- Physical Description
- xvii, 366 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781541619661
- Maps
- Note on Place Names
- Introduction
- Part I. After the Revolution, February 1917-August 1918
- 1. Unerhört!
- 2. 'A lot of impossible folks'
- 3. Brother Czecho
- 4. Aide Memoire
- 5. 'We are not here to conquer'
- Part II. The Intervention Begins, August 1917-April 1919
- 6. Charley Chaplin's coup
- 7. The Hush-hush Brigade
- 8. 'Eggs loaded with dynamite'
- 9. 'A feeling of smothering'
- 10. Paris and Shenkursk
- 11. Prinkipo and Siberia
- 12. L'Entente de ma tatitc
- Part III. White Advances, April-September 1919
- 13. 'Our poor little unarmed soldiers'
- 14. Dyer's Battalion
- 15. One last packet
- 16. Honorary Cossacks
- 17. The stubborn German eagle
- 18. Ironside's bed
- Part IV. White Retreats, September 1919-March 1920
- 19. 'We liked the Balts'
- 20. To Moscow!
- 21. 'Russia is a quicksand'
- 22. 'The falls of Niagara'
- 23. The Heartland
- 24. Tak!
- Part V. The End, 1920
- 25. 'Do we not trade with cannibals?'
- 26. Aftermath
- Acknowledgements
- Picture Credits
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Illustrations follow page 170.
Review by Kirkus Book Review