WH Great war ruleset for BoB / RCW gaming?

[Mark Plant]

. Peter Hopkirk: Setting the East Ablaze!  This is what got me hooked
2. Maj General L C Dunsterville:  The Adventures of Dunsterforce - Brits in Baku.  Amazing scenario detail (like White Russian defenders leaving the front line most nights to go to the Opera!).  I think Caliver Books have a cheap re-print available
3. Ferdinand Ossendowski: Beasts, Men and Gods.  Welcome to the world of The Mad Baron.  Slightly fictionalised
4. James Palmer: The Bloody White Baron.  The reality was even worse than the myth....

Mr Ossendowski probably wrote a fairly historical account of his time in Siberia. The problem is that the version we have passed through the hands of Lewis Stanton Palen. At that point it lost all credibility as a historical work - not because it is all fiction, but because we cannot untangle the fiction from the fact.

Be aware that General Dunsterville's book is also not an entirely accurate historical record, but an attempt at vindication. In any case the Baku fighting was desultory and the armies involved are boringly khaki. Much better value for wargamers is the British Intervention in Trans-Caspia: you get White officers, Cossacks, Turkmen, Brits, Indians, armed trains, Red Army and Red Guard all mixed together.

Ellis Colonel C.H. The Transcaspian Episode 1918-1919. London 1963.
Tod Colonel J.K. Operations in Trans-Caspia, 1918-1919. Pallas Armata 1997.

[Ignatieff]

Be aware that General Dunsterville's book is also not an entirely accurate historical record, but an attempt at vindication.

Ellis Colonel C.H. The Transcaspian Episode 1918-1919. London 1963.
Tod Colonel J.K. Operations in Trans-Caspia, 1918-1919. Pallas Armata 1997.

Of course it is.  Which military memoir isnt?  Who can forget Ceasar and his giant Britons, usefully explaining away why he couldnt conquer the island!

Good sources on Transcaspia.  Thanks

[redzed]

Thanks for the book recommendations

and I also can't wait for those rules.