Churchill's Crusade : The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920

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. Churchill's Crusade is the first complete account of a unique military operation - one which, if it had succeeded, would have changed the history of Russia, Europe and the World. MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Contents 6 Illustrations 8 Acknowledgements 10 Introduction 14 1 The Eastern Front 22 2 Arctic Danger 38 3 Archangel 54 4 Siberia 72 5 Armistice 94 6 General Denikin 112 7 The Winter War 136 8 The Baltic Knot 156 9 Plan of Attack 170 10 Maynard's Offensive 188 11 The North Russian Relief Force 216 12 The White Advance 244 13 The Evacuation of Archangel 274 14 Crisis at Murmansk 292 15 Petrograd Fiasco 308 16 Collapse 328 17 Failure 352 Appendixes 364 Notes 372 Bibliography 392 Index 396 A 396 B 397 C 398 D 400 E 400 F 401 G 401 H 401 I 402 J 402 K 402 L 403 M 404 N 405 O 405 P 405 R 406 S 407 T 408 U 408 V 408 W 409 Y 410 "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 forces were landed at Murmansk, Archangel and Vladivostok in 1918. Under Churchill's direction they were substantially reinforced and, there and elsewhere, given the larger purpose of engineering the overthrow of the Bolshevik regime."

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.  Churchill's Crusade  is the first complete account of a unique military operation - one which, if it had succeeded, would have changed the history of Russia, Europe and the World.

The story of Britain's invasion of Russia at the end of the First World War has remained largely untold. This text presents a complete account of this campaign, one which would have changed the history of Russia, Europe and the world, if it had succeeded Annotation The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure