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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.

Acknowledgements ix
Maps
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Introduction 1
1 A Son of Crusaders and Privateers 11
2 The Ends of the World 23
3 Suspended Between Heaven and Hell 41
4 Things Fall Apart 69
5 Carrion Country 91
6 Ragged Crusade 119
7 Lord of the Steppe 161
8 A Hundred and Thirty Days 193
9 The Last Adventurer 217
Epilogue 233
Notes 249
Bibliography 264
Index 268