{"product_id":"nasty-little-war-1","title":"Nasty Little War","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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57400271634814,"sku":"NW9781529326789","price":14.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781529326789.jpg?v=1778606916","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/nasty-little-war-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}