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History's Greatest Heist: the Looting of Russia by the Bolsheviks by Sean McMeekin
Yale, 2008 $38, 228 pp, ills, index. ISBN 978 0 3001 3558 9 This is a factual tale of cops and robbers, mainly robbers, who claimed they were Robin Hoods expropriating the expropriators to benefit the proletariat. Almost all the gold, currency, silver, jewels and jewellery the Bolsheviks seized from Russian and foreign bankers, industrialists,…
The Armchair General World War One – Can You Win the Great War? by John Buckley and Spencer Jones
(Century, 2023) £10, HB, 423 pagesISBN 978-1-529901-016 An eye-catching front cover. A publication date at the end of October. A book dealing with ‘what ifs?’ or so-called counterfactual history. Surely this is a book aimed at the ‘gifting’ market and not serious military history. However, as the adage goes, ‘don’t judge a book by its cover.’ F…