Unholy Alliance

Here is the first comprehensive account of the secret military and political relationship between Germany and Russia in the years after the First World War, when the seeds were sown for the second. At that time these two major powers were outcasts from the society of nations—Germany because of her defeat, Russia because of the Bolshevik Revolution. Quarantined, they sought each other's company. Leaders in the uneasy partnership included the complex statesman Gustav Stresemann, the tragic Walter