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The story of the collapse of the Eastern Front during the First World War and Russia's rapid descent into anarchy and revolution forms the background to the story of the Allied Intervention in Russia.
Set on an epic scale, 'The Intervention' is a vast narrative of dramatic events and extraordinary untold stories. Involving some of the greatest figures of the century, including Churchill, Lenin, De Gaulle and Hindenburg, 'The Intervention' is a story of intrigue, espionage, clashing ideologies, courage and betrayal at the moment when the course of European history was set for the rest of its most bloody century.
Harold Elletson re-examines the origins of both the October revolution and the Allied intervention, revealing the extraordinary incompetence with which the new 'international community' set about solving its first major crisis. In doing so, he throws new light on the Bolshevik leader Lenin, a cynical chancer, whose brilliant political tactics nonetheless enabled him to defeat not only the White 'Volunteer Army' but also the combined forces of Europe, America and Japan.
Elletson shows the full scale of Allied involvement and describes the numerous engagements undertaken by Allied and German anti-Bolshevik soldiers and sailors.
The first major test of the international community at the birth of the League of Nations, 'The Intervention' also provides numerous lessons for politicasl analysts of today's precarious international environment.
With an astonishing cast of characters, including the renegade German General Count von der Goltz, the young Czech lieutenant Gajda, who 'conquered' Siberia, and the psycopathic Baron von Ungern-Sternberg, not to mention writers such as Somerset Maugham and John Buchan, 'The Intervention' is not only political and military history but also a 'spy story' and a tale of adventure, tragedy and romance.
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