Ten Days That Shook the World Naval Warfare in an ill-fated attempt to

in an ill-fated attempt to break the stalemate at Gallipoli

and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys

sorrow and trauma

reluctant readers

was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams

Ten Days That Shook the World Naval Warfare in an ill-fated attempt toDescription by John Reed Paperback An American journalist and revolutionary writer, John Reed became a close friend of Lenin and was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. Ten Days That Shook the World is Reed's extraordinary record of that event. Writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, he gives a gripping account of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing