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001 ocn893937920
003 OCoLC
005 20220515211627.0
008 141029s2014 enkabf e b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780007225538$q(pbk.)
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035 $a(OCoLC)893937920
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100 1 $aZamoyski, Adam,$eauthor.
245 10 $aWarsaw 1920 :$bLenin's failed conquest of Europe /$cAdam Zamoyski.
264 1 $aLondon :$bWilliam Collins,$c2014.
300 $aix, 160 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps, portraits ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 139-151) and index.
505 00 $g1$tOld Scores and New Dawns --$g2$tPlaying Soldiers --$g3$tGrand Designs --$g4$tThe Miracle on the Vistula --$g5$tSettling the Scores --$g6$tThe Aftermath.
520 1 $a"In the summer of 1920, outside the gates of Warsaw, there took place a battle that ranks alongside Marathon and Waterloo for its importance in history. Yet, dramatic and fateful though its consequences were, the story of how Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism from Russia to western Europe has been largely forgotten." "In 1920 the new Soviet state was a mess, following a brutal civil war. The best way of ensuring its survival appeared to be to export the revolution to Germany, itself economically ruined by defeat in World War I and racked by internal dissension. Between Russia and Germany lay Poland, only recently independent and determined to remain so." "Now Adam Zamoyski, author of the bestselling 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March on Moscow, describes how - in what became known as the 'Miracle on the Vistula' - the Polish army led by self-taught general and former terrorist Josef Pitsudski achieved at the last minute one of the most decisive victories in military history, in which aeroplanes and tanks were swamped by swirling masses of mounted Cossacks and lancers in scenes reminiscent of the Napoleonic wars."--Jacket.
600 10 $aLenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,$d1870-1924.
650 0 $aWarsaw, Battle of, Poland, 1920.
600 14 $aLenin, Vladimir Il'ich,$d1870-1924.
650 6 $aBataille de Varsovie, Pologne, 1920.
651 7 $aPoland.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01206891
647 7 $aBattle of Warsaw$c(Poland :$d1920)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01170858
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