http://www.grahamharrison.com/blog/01/2014/captain-cromie-love-and-death-in-revolutionary-petrograd/
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In April this year my biography of Captain Francis Newton Allen Cromie, CB DSO RN (1882-1918) will be re-issued by Constable & Robinson as an e-book for the WW1 Commemorations. But Cromie's story (see the above link to Photographer Graham Harrison's superb blog) really comes to a head in August 2018, when it will be 100 years since his murder on the staircase of the British Embassy in St. Petersburg. With all the hundreds of TV documentaries already commissioned, we're determined that this man, described by Churchill as ' a man of extraordinary gifts') should not be overlooked. He is a true, forgotten hero. More to come in the weeks ahead on this amazing story!