Author: Geoffrey BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473893085
Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Freeing the Baltic 1918'1920
Author: Geoffrey BennettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781473893085
Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Freeing the Baltic, 1918–1920
Author: Geoffrey BennettPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473893097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that he had to make his own policy. Despite facing a much greater force, Cowan improvised one of the most daring raids ever staged by the British Navy. He succeeded with devastating effect; outmaneuvering his enemies, sinking two Russian Battleships and eventually freeing the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
The Baltic 1918-1920
Author: Robert Jackson.Cowan's War
Author: Geoffrey BennettPublisher: London : Collins
ISBN:
Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
In 1919 the Baltic was in ferment. The Red Army struggled to take over the nascent Baltic states; Finland was in revolt; German armies rampaged through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This book describes how Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan and his British naval fleet managed to free the Baltic states.
The British Policy Toward the Baltic States 1918-1920
Author: Edgar AndersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Baltic Area in British Policy, 1918-1921: From the Compiègne Armistice to the implementation of the Versailles Treaty, 11-11-1918
Author: Olavi HoviPublisher: Helsinki : Finnish Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Baltic States
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Dotyczy m. in. Polski.
Baltic Civil War Calendar 1918-1920
Author: M. BukhamChurchill's Secret War With Lenin
Author: Damien WrightPublisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1913118118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
An account of the little-known involvement of Royal Marines as they engaged the new Bolsheviks immediately after the Russian Revolution. After three years of great loss and suffering on the Eastern Front, Imperial Russia was in crisis and on the verge of revolution. In November 1917, Lenin’s Bolsheviks (later known as “Soviets”) seized power, signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers and brutally murdered Tsar Nicholas (British King George’s first cousin) and his children so there could be no return to the old order. As Russia fractured into loyalist “White” and revolutionary “Red” factions, the British government became increasingly drawn into the escalating Russian Civil War after hundreds of thousands of German troops transferred from the Eastern Front to France were used in the 1918 “Spring Offensive” which threatened Paris. What began with the landing of a small number of Royal Marines at Murmansk in March 1918 to protect Allied-donated war stores quickly escalated with the British government actively pursuing an undeclared war against the Bolsheviks on several fronts in support of British trained and equipped “White Russian” Allies. At the height of British military intervention in mid-1919, British troops were fighting the Soviets far into the Russian interior in the Baltic, North Russia, Siberia, Caspian and Crimea simultaneously. The full range of weapons in the British arsenal were deployed including the most modern aircraft, tanks and even poison gas. British forces were also drawn into peripheral conflicts against “White” Finnish troops in North Russia and the German “Iron Division” in the Baltic. It remains a little-known fact that the last British troops killed by the German Army in the First World War were killed in the Baltic in late 1919, nor that the last Canadian and Australian soldiers to die in the First World War suffered their fate in North Russia in 1919 many months after the Armistice. Despite the award of five Victoria Crosses (including one posthumous) and the loss of hundreds of British and Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen, most of whom remain buried in Russia, the campaign remains virtually unknown in Britain today. After withdrawal of all British forces in mid-1920, the British government attempted to cover up its military involvement in Russia by classifying all official documents. By the time files relating to the campaign were quietly released decades later there was little public interest. Few people in Britain today know that their nation ever fought a war against the Soviet Union. The culmination of more than 15 years of painstaking and exhaustive research with access to many previously classified official documents, unpublished diaries, manuscripts and personal accounts, author Damien Wright has written the first comprehensive campaign history of British and Commonwealth military intervention in the Russian Civil War 1918-20. “Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War remains forgotten. Wright’s book addresses that oversight, interspersing the broader story with personal accounts of participants.” —Military History Magazine
War, Revolution, and Governance
Author: Lazar FleishmanPublisher: Studies in Russian and Slavic
ISBN: 9781618116208
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In fourteen original essays, Baltic scholars offer bold views and fresh empirical perspectives on the events that have shaped the Baltic region throughout the twentieth century from the Great War, to ensuing wars of independence and interwar sovereignty, to World War II and post-war Sovietization experiments, to the fall of the Soviet Union.
Churchill's Crusade
Author: Clifford KinvigPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1847250211
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure.