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Freeing the Baltic 1918 - 1920

Geoffrey Bennett author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Published:1st Aug '17

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Freeing the Baltic 1918 - 1920 cover

In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that he had to make his own policy. Despite facing a much greater force, Cowan improvised one of the most daring raids ever staged by the British Navy. He succeeded with devastating effect; outmanoeuvring his enemies, sinking two Russian Battleships and eventually freeing the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

ISBN: 9781473893078

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

263 pages