Ebook: The bloody white baron: the extraordinary story of the Russian nobleman who became the last khan of Mongolia

Contents; Acknowledgements; Maps; Introduction; 1 A Son of Crusaders and Privateers; 2 The Ends of the World; 3 Suspended Between Heaven and Hell; 4 Things Fall Apart; 5 Carrion Country; 6 Ragged Crusade; 7 Lord of the Steppe; 8 A Hundred and Thirty Days; 9 The Last Adventurer; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;Historian James Palmer relates the story of megalomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but short lived campaign to unifMongolMongul people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew.