A Nasty Little War av Anna Reid

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<p><b>''Chillingly original'' Max Hastings<br><br></b><b>''Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure'' Antony Beevor<br><br>''Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today''s events'' Anne Applebaum<br><br>''Britain''s most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered'' Simon Jenkins<br><br>''Vivid and remarkably timely'' Martin Sixsmith<br><br>From the bestselling author of <i>Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine<br></i></b><br><b>The extraordinary story of the West''s intervention into the Russian Civil War<br></b><br> In the closing months of the First World War, Britain, America, France and Japan sent 180,000 soldiers to revolutionary Russia, in a doomed attempt to unseat the Bolsheviks. Entangled in what they termed a ''comic opera'' conflict, they crisscrossed the shattered empire in sleds, trains and paddlesteamers, bivouacked in log cabins and felt yurts, torpedoed warships from speedboats, improvised the world''s first air-dropped chemical weapons, and organise