Books
by Derek Robinson
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A Splendid Little War |
Russia after the Great War: The British Government intervenes, unofficially, on the side of the White Russians against the Bolsheviks, sending the Merlin squadron of Sopwith Camels and bombers into battle. The result is an arresting mixture of historical narrative, action, tragedy and black comedy. Nothing is quite as vivid as the aerial combat in which the men dice vulnerably with disaster in their flimsy machines, but Russian banqueting and the long journey north come close. This is getting your history the entertaining way.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 101 Summer 2021) |
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