This awesome book looks at the fallout from the Russian Revolution and the British secret agents sent in to stop world revolution. The efforts to stop the Bolsheviks included a raid against the Baltic Fleet, operations in Soviet Turkestan to stop Islamic Holy War propaganda, intelligence asessments in Petrograd and Moscow and even a coup aimed at toppling Lenin and replacing him with a candidate of Sidney Reilly's liking. An awesome book, it reads like fiction and is well illustrated with photographs.
If there is a flaw it is in the supposition that Britain's Secret Service had a hand in assassinating Rasputin. While the autopsy of the Mad Monk is at varience with what the conspirators reported there is only one agent's account that seems to put an agent in the building when it was happening. Also, Churchill's use of incapacitating gas near Archangel is played up more than it needs to be. Still, a great book!
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