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Book

The Polar Bear Expedition : the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

Call Number

  • H 947.0841 N4271 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2019]

Physical Description

viii, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

"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.

Notes

Maps on endpapers.

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 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.

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