About this ebook
During the First World War and back in uniform again he was first Chief of Staff to the South Persia Rifles, then onto St Petersburg at the height of the Revolution. Following his escape across Siberia and onto New York and then the Western Front, he joined the Persian Cossacks in their campaign against the Bolsheviks.
Back in the Survey and before retirement and politics in Ontario, he reached the upper echelons of their secretive work in India.
His political career was as controversial as his military, illustrating a degree of integrity that would have endeared him to Rudyard Kipling.
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About the author
Before moving to Canada, David Newton, a graduate of the Royal MilitaryAcademy, Sandhurst, served as an infantry officer in Europe and the Far East. A contributir to journals and magazines in North America and England he has previously published two historical books. He and his wife continue to live on their Cape Breton, Nova Scotia farm where they traised their family.
