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Cowan's War - The Story of British Naval Operations in the Baltic, 1918-1920
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Cowan's War - The Story of British Naval Operations in the Baltic, 1918-1920
Bennett, Geoffrey
$68.00

Before leaving England in January 1919 to command the small force of British cruisers and destroyers which had been sent to the Baltic immediately after the Armistice that ended the First World War, Rear-Admiral Walter Cowan was briefed by the Admiralty. His characteristic epitomises the chaos prevailing in the states bordering that sea as a result of the Russian Revolution. 'It seemed to me that there was never such a tangle, and my brain reeled with it. An unbeaten German army, two kinds of belligerent Russians, Letts, Finns, Estonians, Lithuanians; ice, mines - 60,000 of them! Russian submarines, German small craft, Russian battleships, cruisers and destroyers, all only waiting for the ice to melt to ravage the Baltic...' Cowan's purpose was to 'encourage' the Baltic States to resist Red aggression; to provide their volunteer forces with arms and ammunition but not to land British troops; to have nothing to do with the German occupying army so long as it obeyed the terms of the Armistice; above all to use force to prevent a more powerful Bolshevik fleet from carrying out operations even though no war had been declared between Britain and Soviet Russia. To do so much appeared an impossible task; yet by the time Cowan left the Baltic at the end of 1919 the aims of Britain and her Allies had been triumphantly achieved. The peoples of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, who thus secured their freedom, still remember their debt to Cowan's leadership and moral courage, to General Gough's study independence, to the patience of Captain Berwick Curtis at Riga, above all to the unquenchable spirit and fighting qualities of the officers and men who manned the British ships...

Second hand Hardback
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ISBN: 
000
SKU:
15481