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A Splendid Little War
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Quercus
Publication date
July 26, 2016
Pages
320
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781780878096
ISBN-10
1780878095
Original list price
$12.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long.
By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it.' Looked like fun.
But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing.
By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. 'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it.' Looked like fun.
But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing.
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Hardcover
from Gardners Books (January 3, 2013)
9780857052292 | details & prices | 315 pages | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $32.10
Paperback
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from Quercus (July 26, 2016)
9781780878096 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $12.99
About: The war to end all wars, people said in 1918.
About: The war to end all wars, people said in 1918.
from Gardners Books (January 3, 2013)
9780857052322 | details & prices | 320 pages | List price $20.05
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