Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Eastern Front -- 2 Arctic Danger -- 3 Archangel -- 4 Siberia -- 5 Armistice -- 6 General Denikin -- 7 The Winter War -- 8 The Baltic Knot -- 9 Plan of Attack -- 10 Maynard's Offensive -- 11 The North…
"The story of Britain's invasion of Russia at the end of the First World War has remained largely untold. Although not its initial architect, its chief advocate was the passionately anti-Bolshevik Winston Churchill. With the initial aim of reopening the Eastern Front, British fo…
"In March 1933 the economic section of the Soviet secret police arrested six British engineers employed by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company, provoking a confrontation that brought Anglo-Soviet relations to the brink of disaster." "In this first full-length study of th…
Aged 25, Lockhart became the British Vice-Consul to Moscow in 1912. In 1918 he was charged with establishing a diplomatic understanding with the Bolsheviks, to ensure that Russia remained in the war against Germany. Then he was falsely accused of a counter-revolutionary plot to …
