Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... trying times. Every day it was becoming clearer that the Volunteer Forces were being routed. Town after town passed out of their possession as easily as they had taken it a month or two before. With every defeat, the disorganisation at the rear increased. Mr Walton had just been in conversation with a British merchant who had just arrived from Kharkov, and whose report was most discouraging. Towns and stores had fallen into the Bolshevists' hands like a ripe fruit. The Volunteer General, Mai-Maievsky, had published flamboyant circulars denying the possibility of the town's falling, and ordering every one to remain quietly at his work; but, meanwhile, his staff and everybody else in the know disappeared in their trains down the line to safety, and the bibulous old man himself went away. The British Railway Mission had just managed to get out in time. With this bad news, I went round to call upon Dr Harold Williams, the correspondent of the Times and Daily Chronicle. Mrs Williams had arrived from England, where I had seen her only a short time before; but already they were beginning to wonder if they would not soon have to think about returning. Not that they were pessimistic. On the contrary, Dr Williams considered that the position at the Front was touch and go. The Bolshevists, he thought, might easily suffer a check and roll back to their bases, their forces minimised by desertion to the victors; or the present rout of the Volunteers might continue. On the whole, they were hopeful. So were most of the people whom I met at their hospitable table. Among these I noticed especially M. Peter Struve, the economist, whose acquaintance I had made in Moscow in 1915, when he was editing the famous monthly review, the Russian Thought. Like most...
