America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920 by William S. Graves - 1931

Text is clean and unmarked. Binding has spots on the back and is worn around the edges and at the binding spine. Margin is cracked at the title page. Frontispiece included. Inside binding is age-toned and smudged. Previous owner's name is on the top of the front free end paper and on the top inside of the front binding. From the Foreword, "The successive revolutions in Russia had withdrawn effective authority from Moscow over the Far East and had given free rein to the ambitions of predatory Cossack chieftains like Semeonoff and Kalmikoff. The fringes of Siberia had long been the scene of commercial and military adventure and conflict by the Germans, English, French, and Japanese...The changing governments at Moscow had changing attitudes toward the World War, and toward Russia's part in it, and these conflicting opinions, but dimly understood in remote Siberia, confused there the already faint sense of Russia's national purpose."