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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. An account of the H.M. Transport Rio Negro and its extraordinary 1920 mission in the Black Sea during the Russian Civil War. Captain Evan Cameron, the ship's commander, recounts the vessel's journey from Sevastopol to Odessa, where, as the Bolshevik advance threatened the city, she embarked approximately 1,400 White Russian refugees—nearly twice her normal capacity of 750. The evacuation was undertaken on the initiative of Admiral Sir John de Robeck, commander of British naval forces in the Black Sea, who pursued what one historian has described as a humanitarian policy of his own devising, despite contrary instructions from London. On 3 February 1920, de Robeck ordered the Rio Negro and Rio Pardo to proceed to Odessa and take on refugees, although their evacuation was not formally a British responsibility. Cameron describes the hurried embarkation, the chaos of the port, and the dangers of the voyage. BOOK: Publisher's green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine; book square and internally unmarked. DUST JACKET: Unclipped jacket priced 12/6 net to inner flap, small nick to tail of spine, mild shelf-wear, else fine.…