With Snow on their Boots
Subtitle: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France during World War I
Edition: 1st St. Martin's Griffin Ed edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: July 2, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780312220822
Subjects: European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); World history; Western Europe - General; History - General History; Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; History; Russia; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Western Continental Europe; Europe - France; Military - World War I; History / Former Soviet Republics; World War, 1914-1918; Europe - Former Soviet Republics; Campaigns; France; Regimental histories
First sentence: IN THE CHAOTIC DAYS OF EARLY AUGUST 1914, when all across Europe millions of men rushed off eagerly to war for what would be the last time in history, a rumor swept Great Britain that troops of their Russian ally had landed in Scotland on their way to the Western Front.