The Polar Bear Expedition : the heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
(2019)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
947.0841/NELSON,J

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 947.0841/NELSON,J Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
©2019
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

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

ISBN/ISSN
9780062852779, 0062852779 :, 0062852779, 9780062852786, 0062852787, 9780062852779
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Maps on endpapers

Author's note: The polar bears -- Prologue -- 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 lonely 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 Bolshie Ozerki -- Getting out -- The Gulag Amerikanski -- A return to Russia -- Epilogue

"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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