FREEING THE BALTIC by Bennett, Geoffrey ISBN 184341001X
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In 1919 the Baltic was in ferment. The Red Army struggled to take over the nascent Baltic states; Finland was in revolt; German armies rampaged through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This book describes how Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan and his British naval fleet managed to free the Baltic states.
... [the British] ships must be sunk, come what may... - Leon Trotsky Within a period of three years Great Britain managed to replace both Russian and Germany as the dominant power in the Baltic by establishing a block of states between Russia and Germany under her leadership. - American historian I hope you will not have the Litany in my flagship; but if you insist will you please omit the petition where we ask to be delivered from battle, murder and sudden death. Hang it! I've never been trained for anything else. - Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan IN 1919 THE BALTIC was in ferment. The Red Army struggled to take over the nascent Baltic States; Finland was in revolt; German armies, attempting to conquer a realm in the east to compensate for defeat in the west, rampaged through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. As White armies marched on revolutionary Petrograd, the new governments of the Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. Into this anarchy sailed a small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers. Opposing them were three Russian battleships and a host of lighter vessels. Cowan was given no clear instructions from the British Admiralty as to what he was expected to achieve, and, as negotiations continued through the Armistice, he effectively had to make his own policy. He succeeded to devastating effect. Despite having only a tiny force, he succeeded in improvising one of the most daring raids ever staged by the British navy - an attack which penetrated into the heart of impregnable Kronstadt and sank two Russian battleships. He outmanoeuvred the Germans and the Whites in a game of cat and mouse, raid and counter raid which left Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania free and which formed the basis of a permanent bond between these three countries and Britain. Cowan proved that the greatness of the British navy lay not simply in the size and power of its ships but in the brilliance and courage of its officers and men.
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
FREEING THE BALTIC
[edit] Author
Bennett, Geoffrey
[edit] ISBN
184341001X
[edit] Published
17/05/2002
[edit] Publisher
Birlinn General
[edit] Binding
paperback
[edit] Retail Price
9.99 (GBP)
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8.99 (GBP)
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