num_pages: 288
description: In the history of the modern world there have been few characters more sinister sadistic and deeply demented than Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic whose penchant for Eastern mysticism and hatred of communists foreshadowed the Nazi scourge that would soon overtake Europe Ungern- Sternberg conquered Mongolia in 1919 with a ragtag force of White Russians Siberians Japanese and native Mongolians. In The Bloody White Baron historian and travel writer James Palmer vividly re-creates Ungern-Sternberg's spiral into ever-darker obsessions while also providing a rare look at the religion and culture of the unfortunate Mongolians he briefly ruled.
language: None
title: The Bloody White Baron: The Extraordinary Story of the Russian Nobleman Who Became the Last Khan of Mongolia
publisher: Faber & Faber