• – Michael B. Barrett. Operation Albion: The German Conquest of the Baltic Islands. Twentieth-Century Battles Series. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. x + 298 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9; $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-253-34969-9. Reviewed by Jesse Kauffman (Stanford University) Published on H-German (March, 2009) Commissioned by Susan R. Boettcher A Forgotten Eastern Storm On October 12, 1917, an amphibious German invasion force of some 25,000 troops, 350 ships and bo