Robert Wilton Libri

A novel of shadows, intrigue and manipulation in a Europe teetering on the brink of the Great War

This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Revolution, dissent and secret plotting - trouble is rife on the streets of eighteenth century Paris.

As The London Times’ correspondent in Russia in 1917, Robert Wilton provided the first western eyewitness account of the monumental events which resulted in the creation of the Soviet Union. In this book, Wilton provides a full historical background and the disastrous course of World War I for Russia, which sets the scene for the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. He then details the full enormity of the Red Terror, and ends with the optimistic —and incorrect— hope that Bolshevism would be short-lived.

Robert Wilton (born in Russia, d.1922) collected documents about the assassination of the Russian royal family in Ekaterinburg was committed by the Bolsheviks and Germans, and he was the first to break this story and make it public in 1920. This book was compiled by journalist Chikovani, born in 1944 in Russia, emigrated to France in 1975. It a reprint of Wilton's book with his afterword; Chikovani's review of Edvard Radzinskii 's book "Nikolai Zhizn' I Smert"; several appendices. Among the appendices are documents from Wilton's archive on the history of the royal death, and the people involved in this crime. Profusely illustrated. Glossy paper. Also available on the same Sokolov, N.A. Ubiistvo Tsarskoi Sem' Iz Zapisok Sudebnogo Sledovatelia N.A. Sokolova (1998).