The bloody white baron : the extraordinary story of the Russian nobleman who became the last khan of Mongolia /

Historian James Palmer relates the story of megalomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but short lived campaign to unifMongolMongul people while at the sa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Palmer, James, 1978-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Basic Books, ©2009.
Subjects:
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, > 1885-1921.
Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, > 1885-1921
1900-1999
Generals > Soviet Union > Biography.
Généraux > URSS > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
HISTORY.
Generals
Mongolia > History, Military > 20th century.
Siberia (Russia) > History > Revolution, 1917-1921.
Sibérie (Russie) > Histoire > 1917-1921 (Révolution)
Mongolia
Russia (Federation) > Siberia
Soviet Union
Biography
Biographies
History
Military history
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; 1 A Son of Crusaders and Privateers; 2 The Ends of the World; 3 Suspended Between Heaven and Hell; 4 Things Fall Apart; 5 Carrion Country; 6 Ragged Crusade; 7 Lord of the Steppe; 8 A Hundred and Thirty Days; 9 The Last Adventurer; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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