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Join former BBC News Correspondent Nick Higham as he talks about Mavericks, the gripping unknown story of an audacious secret mission around the Caspian Sea during the First World War’s chaotic endgame.  As regimes crumbled, an unlikely maverick band of British soldiers, diplomats and spies were sent in to block Turkish advances, counter Bolshevik threats, and secure Baku’s vital oil.  Drawing on personal diaries and top secret archives, he uncovers eccentric heroes and extraordinary intrigue in this forgotten theatre of war where rules were made to be broken.