The Bloody White Baron

Description

Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses. He was a Kurtz-like figure, slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. And his is a story that rehearses later horrors in Russia and elsewhere.

Description

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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Other Editions

• The Bloody White BaronPerseus Books Group2009-01-01
• The Bloody White BaronHardcoverFaber & Faber2008-03-20
• The Bloody White BaronPaperbackFaber & Faber2009-03-05
• The Bloody White BaronpaperbackBasic Books2011-06-07
• Bloody White BaronFaber & Faber, Limited2014-01-01