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PARES (Sir Bernard)
My Russian Memoirs.
1st Ed., 623pp., 40 illus. Cape.
1931
#64415
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Pares, academic, historian, diplomat & Russian specialist was official British observer with the Russian Armies in the Field in 1914-15 then seconded to the British Embassy in Petrograd from where he reported to London & was involved in Propaganda. During the Revolution he supported the Whites & gave lectures to Kolchak's Army, but later became a supporter of the Soviet Union. Orig. green cloth, gilt, sp. tanned, some splitting to joints, ink inscrip. to paste-down of Anglo-American Society, St. Raphael, orig. sleeve notes from jacket pasted to ffep. Sound thus & scarce. See illustration on our website
£50
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