All the Baron’s men are frightened of him – and with good reason. As an officer in Russia’s White army, he got lots of practice at killing people… But now it’s 1921, the Whites have lost to the communist Reds, and the Baron is on his way East, to carry out his GRAND PLAN.

‘Baron von Ungern-Sternberg was the Dennis the Menace of the White Russians. Reading his riveting adventures is to learn about the inhumanity of man and to hear the flip side of the Russian Revolution. This is history in its purest and most conventional form: lives, stories, characters, destinies.’

Evening Standard