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Timur and his Comrades, 1943

Posted: December 28th, 2023 | No Comments »

An interesting book being sold by the charming Endlings store in Hastings Old Town – see endlings.hastings on Instagram.

Timur and his Comrades by A Gaider and cover design by Donia Nachsen, translated by Maria Renbourn. Set in 1929 when the warlord Chang Hsueh-liang (Zhang Xueliang) starfted a skirmish with the Soviet Far Eastern Red Army on the Manchurian border. From a Russian book series published by Pilot Press in 1943, a Soviet front publishing house in London.



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