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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Basic Books, c2009Description: xiii, 274 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780465014484 (U.S. : alk. paper)
  • 0465014488 (U.S. : alk. paper)
  • 9780571230235 (Br.)
  • 0571230237 (Br.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 111.84 P173B B 22
LOC classification:
  • DK254.U5 P35 2009
Summary: 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 same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew
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"Published in 2008 in England by Faber and Faber Unlimited"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-267) and index

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 same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew

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