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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 Winning and Losing of the Great War at Sea and the Feeding of Nations
In a change to our programme, our September meeting will see Tom Scotland giving a talk about the naval blockade of Germany and its effects upon the population. It was also examine how differences in how the food situation was managed led to Britain being able to see out the war, despite shipping loses to submarines, while Germany's people slow...
'The Winning and Losing of the Great War at Sea and the Feeding of Nations by Tom Scotland'
The Royal Blockade and the U- boats. The crucial restriction of food imports and raw materials to Germany resulted in the starvation of the German civilian population with terrible consequences. British scientists, unlike their German counterparts, anticipated food shortages and made a major contribution to winning the war.