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 meglomaniac 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 shortlived campaign to unify the Mongul people while at the same...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2009.
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| Summary: | Historian James Palmer relates the story of meglomaniac 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 shortlived campaign to unify the Mongul people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 274p : maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780465014484 0465014488 |