The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett #literature the Argo-Saronic islands

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PaperbackPublication: 30 Jan 2003

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett #literature the Argo-Saronic islandsThe forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission with a daring and fearless approach. As the First World War drew to a close and regimes began to collapse across Europe, British officials plotted a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of maverick soldiers, diplomats and spies to the chaotic region around the Caspian Sea. Their mission: to block the advance of the Turks, to hold back the rising Bolsheviks and