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This accurate historical novel of Baron Ungern-Sternberg's last days is for readers whose literary will power is as strong as their stomachs. Written in the tradition of the conventional Russian novel, with almost eye-witness vividness, it ranks in intensity if not in scope with Sholokhov's And Quiet Flows the Don, Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front...
...last and most legendary of the White Russian counter-revolutionists rounded up by the Soviet Government was Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Sternberg, diminutive, monstrously capricious, brilliant commander of the East Asiatic Cossack Division, who in his last stand in Outer Mongolia beat the best the Red Army sent against him, went down to defeat only when his own officers rebelled against his sadistic despotism...
...however, Baron Ungern von Sternberg, leader of an anti-Bolshevik force, forced the Hutuktu again to declare the independence of Outer Mongolia. In the Spring of the same year von Sternberg was defeated and executed ; Mongolia fell under the influence of the Soviet Government at Moscow, thus leaving China's position with regard to Mongolia obscure...
...Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made his way through Manchuria and thence to Peking and safety. It is the wildest sort of an Odyssey--the more powerful because of the deadly earnestness and precision with which it is told, and because...
...barren mountains whose folds looked like the mantle of Setan, which the glow of the evening sun drenched with blood". This is Mongolia the Mongolia whose ancestors broke their chests against the iron lances of the Western knights: the Mongolia which has only recently been stirred again by Baron Ungern, the "Incarnated God of War": the Mongolia whose books and priests and legends speak of the day when the swastika of Jenghis Khan will be carried Westward, and all of Europe will fall under "the last march of the Mongols". "Asta is awakened and her sons utter bold words...