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The Polar Bear Expedition : the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
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"The extraordinary true story of America's forgotten invasion of Russia: one-thousand miles north of Moscow, five-thousand brave U.S. troops from Michigan fought the Red Army during the winter of 1...
"The extraordinary true story of America's forgotten invasion of Russia: one-thousand miles north of Moscow, five-thousand brave U.S. troops from Michigan fought the Red Army during the winter of 1918-1919 in brutal arctic conditions."--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- James Carl Nelson
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- viii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780062852779, 0062852779, 9780062852786, 0062852787
- OCLC
- on1041763187
- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-297) and index.
- The march to intervention -- Over where -- To Russia. With angst -- We're here because we're here -- Archangel -- Upriver -- The romance of Company A -- The strangest fighting mission ever undertaken -- The bridge -- Onega -- Storm clouds -- Friends and comrades -- Verst 445 -- Armistice Day, part 1 -- Armistice Day, part 2 -- The Pinega -- The lonesome death of Francis Cuff -- Medicine men -- A Thanksgiving of sorts -- Better than no war at all -- K means Kodish -- The sad case of Sergeant Young -- The devil comes to Nijni Gora -- Flight -- Vistafka -- To what end -- Why did we go to Russia -- The Ballad of Bolshiozerski -- The Gulag Amerikanski -- A return to Russia
Subjects
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 339th -- History.
- Polar Bear Expedition (1918-1919)
- Soldiers -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States.
- Michigan -- History, Military -- 20th century.
- Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920.