Dimitri Alioshin was a young Russian army officer during the Russian revolution. This true account tells the story of his experiences in Siberia, Manchuria, and Mongolia, where he is enlisted in the forces of the "Bloody Baron" Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, the infamous warlord and last Khan of Mongolia. Aside from being a gripping adventure novel, it is the most detailed first hand-account of Roman von Ungern-Sternberg's violent struggle against Bolshevism. During his travels, Dimitri Alioshin ends up fighting for the Whites, the Reds, and also Ungern-Sternberg's army of vagrants and nomads, and he describes in detail the brutality of the war.