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Mannerheim - President, Soldier, Spy (Paperback)
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Mannerheim - President, Soldier, Spy (Paperback)
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List price R475
Loot Price R423
Discovery Miles 4 230
You Save R52 (11%)
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Gustaf Mannerheim was one of the greatest figures of the 20th
century. As a young Finnish officer he witnessed the coronation of
the last Tsar and was decorated for bravery in the Russo-Japanese
War. He spent two years undercover in Asia as an agent of the
'Great Game'. Crossing China on horseback, he stopped en route to
teach the 13th Dalai Lama how to shoot a pistol; he also spied on
the Japanese navy. Having escaped the Bolsheviks by the skin of his
teeth in 1917, he commanded the anti-Russian forces in the local
revolt and civil war and later, during Finland's darkest hour, he
lead the defence of his country against the impossible odds of the
Winter War. In this, the first major biography of Mannerheim for a
decade, Jonathan Clements brings new material to light on
Mannerheim's time in Manchuria and Japan. This is a fascinating
appraisal of an adventurer and explorer who would go on to forge a
new nation.
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