ISBN10: 1847349765, ISBN13: 9781847349767, [publisher: Naval and Military Press] Softcover 2009 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1933). SB. xiii+469pp+16maps. Illustrated.Published Price £16 This book is a very thorough and comprehensive account of the Civil War and Allied intervention that followed the chaotic Russian revolution of 1917 which culminated in the Bolshevik take over. Although written from the perspective of the White counter-revolutionary armies fighting to overthrow Lenin’s new ‘Red’ regime, Stewart is remarkably objective. Generously illustrated with both maps and photographs, this is a big book which attempts - very successfully - to cover widespread theatres of war in the vastest country on earth. The Reds had two huge advantages over their White opponents : they had a unified, single command and they were defending central positions in the heart of Russia - including the capital, Moscow, and the port city of Leningrad [St Petersburg] - against diffuse attacks from different directions. By contrast the Whites were disunited politically, ranging from reactionary monarchists to social democrats and even anarchists - and were fighting in widely different locations - under rival commanders unable to co-ordinate their disparate - and often desperate - attacks. As a result, the more ruthless Reds were eventually able to defeat them piecemeal; and the efforts by the Allies - the US, Britain, France and even Japan - to support them ...
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ISBN10: 1847349765, ISBN13: 9781847349767, [publisher: Naval & Military Press Ltd] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book is a very thorough and comprehensive account of the Civil War and Allied intervention that followed the chaotic Russian revolution of 1917 which culminated in the Bolshevik take over. Although written from the perspective of the White counter-revolutionary armies fighting to overthrow Lenin's new 'Red' regime, Stewart is remarkably objective. Generously illustrated with both maps and photographs, this is a big book which attempts - very successfully - to cover widespread theatres of war in the vastest country on earth. The Reds had two huge advantages over their White opponents : they had a unified, single command and they were defending central positions in the heart of Russia - including the capital, Moscow, and the port city of Leningrad [St Petersburg] - against diffuse attacks from different directions. By contrast the Whites were disunited politically, ranging from reactionary monarchists to social democrats and even anarchists - and were fighting in widely different locations - under rival commanders unable to co-ordinate their disparate - and often desperate - attacks. As a result, the more ruthless Reds were eventually able to defeat them piecemeal; and the efforts by the Allies - the US, Britain, France and even Japan - to support them were in vain. This book covers the ...
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