Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Asian Odyssey is the grim memoir of a White Russian artillery officer, who served under General Kolchak and Baron von Ungern-Sternberg against the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Mongolia. While many a book has been written about the Russian Red and White armies, and at least two biographies about the fantastically sadistic Ungern-Sternberg, none has more simply or vividly described the incredible hardships and cruelties of a fight which will long rank with the more shuddering chapters of Russian history...
...incident which the book omits : For a while in Mongolia, Author Peck kept a pet chicken in his room. One day, during an epidemic of deadly typhus, Peck felt logy, and noticed pink spots all up & down his left arm. He was sure he had typhus. Deciding to die gallantly, he persuaded a friend to help drink down first a bottle of brandy, then a bottle of vodka. When he awoke next afternoon with no recollection of having done any cooking, he found his room a mess of feathers, blood, picked bones. The pink spots were gone, and Graham Peck...
...view toward securing nationwide peace on a basis of honor and justice and to facilitate the solution of such problems as the total withdrawal of Japanese troops from China. ... I am sending this message from my inner heart." Terms of the pact: Chinese recognition of Manchukuo; North China and Mongolia to be a "special zone for defense and economic development for Japan"; recognition of Japan's economic predominance in the rich lower Yangtze Valley and in islands off China; Japanese garrisons to be maintained; reduction of Chinese police and Army forces...