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A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid short list 2022 Paris was the playground of"Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure" Antony Beevor"Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to todays events" Anne Applebaum In the closing months of the First World War, Britain, America, France and Japan sent arms and 180,000 soldiers to Russia, with the aim of tipping the balance in her post revolutionary Civil War. From Central Asia to the Arctic and from Poland to the Pacific, they joined anti Bolshevik forces in trying to overthrow the