Product code: Raymond Robin’s Own Story - First Edition shops RARE
Raymond Robin's Own Story by William Hard - this book is a RARE First Edition, 1920. This is a former library book and shows some fading on the cover and the spine is loose. About the book: In the last days of 1917, Russia declared that it had uncovered a plot by the American ambassador to undermine the new Lenin and Trotsky revolutionary regime. It was a scandal of immense proportions at the time, yet one that has been all but forgotten. Colonel Raymond Robins, then head of the American Red Cross. One high-ranking Russian revolutionary to say, as quoted in The New York Times in June 1920: "All the foreigners and Americans were against us except Raymond Robins. He was the only true and faithful friend we had among the foreigners shops and he was the only one who understood our aims and fully sympathized with us..." This obscure but captivating work, first published in 1920, reads like a political thriller in its illumination of one of the most mysterious events in 20th century history.
Raymond Robin's Own Story by William Hard - this book is a RARE First Edition, 1920. This is a former library book and shows some fading on the cover and the spine is loose. About the book: In the last days of 1917, Russia declared that it had uncovered a plot by the American ambassador to undermine the new Lenin and Trotsky revolutionary regime. It was a scandal of immense proportions at the time, yet one that has been all but forgotten. Colonel Raymond Robins, then head of the American Red Cross. One high-ranking Russian revolutionary to say, as quoted in The New York Times in June 1920: "All the foreigners and Americans were against us except Raymond Robins. He was the only true and faithful friend we had among the foreigners shops and he was the only one who understood our aims and fully sympathized with us..." This obscure but captivating work, first published in 1920, reads like a political thriller in its illumination of one of the most mysterious events in 20th century history.