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The Bloody White Baron by: James Palmer List Price: £18.99 City Travel Guides Price: £13.29 You Save: £5.70 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover EAN: 9780571230235 ISBN: 0571230237 Label: Faber and Faber Manufacturer: Faber and Faber Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 20, 2008 Publisher: Faber and Faber Studio: Faber and Faber Sales Rank: 9766 Related Items:
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 Rating: - A character too crazy for fictionI've been fascinated by this period of Mongolian history ever since I found a musty old copy of Ossendowski's Beasts, Men and Gods in a used bookstore years ago, so I was very happy to find a new look at those times in this book. Finding sources or historical writing on this period is difficult, at least here in the US, since Outer Mongolia almost seems to be a fictitious country in itself. Fortunately, James Palmer has travelled the East and waded through the various scraps and pieces of its history and pulled together a picture of a fascinating, if horrendous, figure who stamped his mark upon the era. Ossendowski's book, while purportedly true, reads like a pulp adventure novel, and his account of Baron Ungern certainly makes a modern reader ... Read More: |
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