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NICK HIGHAM – Mavericks – Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One
Price: £14Venue: Wade Street Church
Former 30-year BBC correspondent Nick Higham’s new book tells the forgotten story of the British ‘mavericks’ whose daring mission at the end of World War I: the near impossible task of holding back the Bolsheviks, preventing a Turkish-inspired jihad in India, and securing vital oil supplies from Baku.
Against all odds, Higham’s cast of eccentric heroes – a commander who inspired Kipling, a Scottish aristocrat, an indestructible soldier, a brilliant inventor and a spy – survived to tell their extraordinary tales, in this propulsive story of boldness and intrigue set in a forgotten corner of the Great War.
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Photo: Richard Davies
