Six Prisons And Two Revolutions

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I just finished reading this book. Some info on the author:

 

Oliver Baldwin (1899-1958) was the elder son of prime minister Stanley Baldwin. Like his father, he entered public life, but with a difference: he was a socialist while his father was a conservative. For two years, in 1921-31, father and son faced one another on opposite sides of the Commons. After Eton, which he hated and left early, Oliver Baldwin obtained a commission and enlisted in the Irish Guards. In France he participated in the decisive advance of British forces in autumn 1918. After the war, he went to Armenia with the job of infantry instructor. The Bolsheviks imprisoned him for two months and later he was imprisoned by the Turks for a further grim five months. Back in Britain he took a house in Oxfordshire with his lover John Boyle, and became a Labour MP, briefly holding the job of PPS to the minister of war. But Oliver Baldwin's main source of income was that of journalist: in January 1934 he wrote a stirring article for the Daily Herald, entitled 'No Fascism for British Youth'. This was one of the more powerful and trenchant pieces written in opposition to the Mosleyite fascists, comparable to anything written by Orwell or Spender. Later the Daily Mail sent him to cover the Spanish civil war.

 

The book was written in 1925 and basically covers his experiences in East Anatolia and the Caucasus (1920-21). Its quite interesting, I had never realised how bloody/anarchic the Bolshevik takeover of Armenia was....

 

Anyhow, I was wondering as to how historically accurate it is and if anyone else has read it....