# Mavericks

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- Book: [Mavericks](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-higham/mavericks) ([Mavericks.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-higham/mavericks.md))
- Authors: [Nick Higham](https://www.bookquiver.com/nicholas-higham)
- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 978-15-2667-675-7
- Pages: 368
- Published: 2026-08-27
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The forgotten story of a group of British mavericks who took on an impossible mission - and survived against all odds to tell their extraordinary tales. 1918. The First World War is drawing to a close and regimes are collapsing across Europe. Amid the chaos, British officials plot a daring campaign to send an unlikely band of soldiers, diplomats and spies to the volatile shores of the Caspian Sea. Their mission: stop the advancing Turks, hold back the Bolsheviks and secure the vital supply of oil from Baku. Drawing on personal diaries, memoirs and once-secret government archives, Mavericks is a page-turning story of boldness and intrigue, set in a forgotten corner of the Great War where rules were made to be broken.