The Polar Bear Expedition : the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
2019
Book
"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.
Item Details
ISBN: 9780062852779
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Other Title: America's forgotten invasion of Russia
Notes:
- Maps on endpapers.
- Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
- 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 undetaken
- 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 silence of Ust Padenga
- The devil comes to Nijni Gora
- Flight
- Vistafka
- To what end
- Why did we go to Russia
- The Ballad of Bolshie ozerki
- Getting out
- The Gulag Amerikanski
- A return to Russia.
LCCN: 2018037597
Control Number: 2681001
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2019]Subjects:
- Michigan -- History, Military -- 20th century.
- Soldiers -- Michigan -- History -- 20th century.
- Soviet Union -- History -- Allied intervention, 1918-1920.
- United States. Army. American Expeditionary Force, North Russia.
- United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 339th -- History.
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories -- United States.