Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War by Rupert Wieloch History & Politics a hot-headed new recruit to

a hot-headed new recruit to the Criminal Investigation Department

until Trotsky's Red Army prevailed

As a new Cold War hots up it is ever-more important to understand the origins of the modern relationship between Russia and the West

The book explains how the bitter fighting ebbed and flowed along the Trans-Siberian Railway for eighteen months

Greek and Japanese troops

Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners: The British Soldiers Deceived in the Russian Civil War by Rupert Wieloch History & Politics a hot-headed new recruit toWinner of the Britain at War Book of the Month Award for May 2019. Churchill's Abandoned Prisoners tells the previously suppressed story of fifteen British prisoners captured during the Russian civil war. The Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 seriously compromised the Allied war effort. That threat rather than an ideological wish to defeat the Bolsheviks was the driving force behind the formation of an Allied force including British, American, French,