Lockhart, Bruce,
Memoirs of a British agent / being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1981 : Bruce Lockhart. - London : Pan Books ; c2002. - xv, 355 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 19.6 cm. - Pan grand strategy series. . - Pan grand strategy series. .
"Holds our attention to the last page"
Includes index.
Contents: I. Malayan novitiate -- II. The Moscow pageant -- III. War and peace -- IV. History from the inside -- Index.
"This extraordinary book, which I obtained through the Folio Society, is compiled from the personal daily journals of a British diplomat and emissary who was in Russia from 1905 through 1918. He was personally acquainted with many of the principal participants in the Bolshevik Revolution, including Trotsky, whom he visitied almost daily in the early stages of that event, and even Lenin. His eye-witness accounts of many of the events surrounding the entire history of this cataclismic tranformation of Russia from a Tsarist Empire into a Soviet one is like no other. It is in the first person throughout, and is one of the most gripping narratives of its type I have ever read." -- Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9780330414937 [paperback]
World War, 1914-1918--Russia.
Communism --Russia.
Memoirs of a British agent / being an account of the author's early life in many lands and of his official mission to Moscow in 1981 : Bruce Lockhart. - London : Pan Books ; c2002. - xv, 355 pages : illustrations (black & white) ; 19.6 cm. - Pan grand strategy series. . - Pan grand strategy series. .
"Holds our attention to the last page"
Includes index.
Contents: I. Malayan novitiate -- II. The Moscow pageant -- III. War and peace -- IV. History from the inside -- Index.
"This extraordinary book, which I obtained through the Folio Society, is compiled from the personal daily journals of a British diplomat and emissary who was in Russia from 1905 through 1918. He was personally acquainted with many of the principal participants in the Bolshevik Revolution, including Trotsky, whom he visitied almost daily in the early stages of that event, and even Lenin. His eye-witness accounts of many of the events surrounding the entire history of this cataclismic tranformation of Russia from a Tsarist Empire into a Soviet one is like no other. It is in the first person throughout, and is one of the most gripping narratives of its type I have ever read." -- Provided by the publisher
Adult
Text in English
9780330414937 [paperback]
World War, 1914-1918--Russia.
Communism --Russia.