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The author, formerly an officer in the imperial Russian army, recounts the experiences of his hazardous flight through Mongolia to his father's home in Harbin after the fall of the Kerensky government.

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Little is known about Dmitri Alioshin, the author of this breathtaking tale of survival in the vastness of Siberia and Mongolia during the 1917-1922 Russian Civil War.

Presented alternately as an autobiography and a novel inspired by real-life events, Asian Odyssey dragged me along into the recesses of the war, its cruelty and misery, and the sweeping tides of history it evokes. But the vivid depiction of the landscape and the people nurtured by the region’s plains and mountains also lifted my spirits to soothing heights.

Whoever Alioshin might be, and whether he did indeed fight on the side…

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