| In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sadistic, sinister, and deeply demented as Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic with a penchant for Eastern mysticism and a hatred of communists, Baron Ungern-Sternberg took over Mongolia in 1920 with a ragtag force of White Russians, Siberians, Japanese, and native Mongolians. While tormenting friend and foe alike, he dreamed of assembling a horse-borne army with which he would retake communist controlled Moscow. In this epic saga that ranges from Austria to the Mongolian Steppe, historian and travel writer James Palmer has brought to light the gripping life story of a madman whose actions fore shadowed the most grotesque excesses of the twentieth century.
Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of an effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia. He was a Kurtz-like figure, slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew. This book tells his story that rehearses later horrors in Russia and elsewhere. ... from the British hardback edition
Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron conquered Mongolia, the last time in history a country was seized by an army mounted on horses. ... from the British paperback edition
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