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Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One
Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution11 South Grove
Tue 22 Sept · 20:00
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Speaker: Nick Higham, writer and former journalist When Russia crashed out of the First World War following the Revolution in 1917, Britain was desperate to prevent its German and Turkish enemies seizing the oil-rich port of Baku on the Caspian Sea. But the country had few soldiers to spare and Baku was hundreds of...
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