ABSTRACT
As Transbaikalia was being overrun by Red partisans and the NRA in October 1920, Baron Roman Fedorovich Ungern-Shternberg was busy positioning his troops for an assault on the Mongolian capitol, Urga, some 400 miles away from the front. Until this time, Baron Ungern-Shternberg was just another face in the crowd of high-ranking OMO killers, notorious primarily for transforming Dauria station into a showcase of medieval torture. However, his winter campaign in Mongolia indelibly etched his name in the bloody legends of twentieth-century warfare.
