{"product_id":"anna-reid-a-nasty-little-war-2024-paperback","title":"Anna Reid: A Nasty Little War [2024] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chillingly original' Max Hastings\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Britain's most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered' Simon Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Vivid and remarkably timely' Martin Sixsmith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBorderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe extraordinary story of the West's intervention into the Russian Civil War\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 organised several coups and at least one assassination. Cheered on by Churchill, they also turned a blind eye to their Russian allies' many atrocities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo years later, as the Red Army swept the board, the West evacuated, leaving Russia more blood-stained and suspicious than ever. \u003ci\u003eA Nasty Little War\u003c\/i\u003e brings this forgotten misadventure vividly to life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reid, Anna","offers":[{"title":"Like New","offer_id":52707005661523,"sku":"XE81529326789","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":51023373631827,"sku":"9781529326789","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/reid-anna-anna-reid-a-nasty-little-war-2024-paperback-9781529326789-1168217566.jpg?v=1767437171","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/anna-reid-a-nasty-little-war-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}