London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1918. xviii, 280pp, [4]. With half-title, photographic frontispiece, and two terminal advertisement leaves. Original publisher's tan cloth, lettered in black. Very slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Occasional pencil annotations to text, else an internally clean and crisp copy. Signed by the author 'John Pollock' to recto of FFEP, ink manuscript correction to a single word of preliminaries likely in the author's hand. A collection of papers by English historian Sir John Pollock (1878-1963), which had originally appeared in periodicals including The Standard, Manchester Guardian, Fortnightly review, New Europe, and Nineteenth Century; providing accounts of the Russian Revolution, the Polish question, and the nation's involvement on the Eastern Front during the First World War. Pollock served in Russia and Poland from 1915 to 1919 as chief commissioner for Great Britain to Poland and the Galicia Fund under the Russian Red Cross. He was awarded the Order of Saint Anna for his exemplary conduct. . First edition. 8vo.

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Bookseller: Antiquates Ltd (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: AQ14322
Title: War and revolution in Russia
Author: POLLOCK, John
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Constable & Co. Ltd.
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1918
Keywords: Military History
Size: 8vo

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