The bloody white baron : the extraordinary story of the Russian nobleman who became the last khan of Mongolia / James Palmer.
Author: Palmer, James, 1978-
Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
ISBN: 9780465014484 (hc)
0465014488 (hc)
Description: xiii, 274 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Subject: Ungern-Sternberg, Roman, 1885-1921.
Generals Soviet Union Biography.
Mongolia History, Military 20th century.
Siberia (Russia) History Revolution, 1917-1921.
Notes: "Published in 2008 in England by Faber and Faber Limited"--T.p. verso.
Summary: Historian James Palmer relates the story of meglomaniac Baron Freiherr Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg, an anti-Bolshevik German Russian reactionary who in 1920 led a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen in a grand but shortlived campaign to unify the Mongul people while at the same time frightening the Russians and slaughtering everyone he suspected of irreligion or of being a Jew.