Description In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5, 000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow.
The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, had been sent to fight the Soviet Red Army and aid anti-Bolshevik forces in hopes of reop.
Army\'s 339th Infantry Regiment crossed the Arctic Circle; instead of the Western Front, these troops were sailing en route to Archangel, Russia, on the White Sea, to intervene in the Russian Civil War.
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It began in August 1918, during the last months of the First World War: the U.
They were spectacularly wrong, and so too is the nation\'s collective memory. presidents, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, would assert that the American and the Russian people had never directly fought each other.
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Indeed, during the Cold War, two U.
And yet they are all but unknown today.
The Polar Bears, hailing largely from Michigan, heroically waged a courageous campaign in the brutal, frigid subarctic of northern Russia for almost a year.
The Bolsheviks, camouflaged in white, advanced in waves across the snow like ghosts.
Their guns and their flesh froze.
Temperatures plummeted to sixty below zero. soldiers, nicknamed "The Polar Bears," found themselves hundreds of miles north of Moscow in desperate, bloody combat against the newly formed Soviet Union\'s Red Army.
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In the winter of 1919, 5, 000 U.
Davenport - "FASCINATING, VIVID." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune An unforgettable human drama deep with contemporary resonance, award-winning historian James Carl Nelson\'s The Polar Bear Expedition draws on an untapped trove of firsthand accounts to deliver a vivid, soldier\'s-eye view of an extraordinary lost chapter of American history--the Invasion of Russia one hundred years ago during the last days of the Great War.
O\'Donnell - "A MASTER OF NARRATIVE HISTORY." -- Mitchell Yockelson - "GRIPPING." -- Matthew J.
Bacon - "EXCEPTIONAL." -- Patrick K.
Russia has not."AN EXCELLENT BOOK." --Wall Street Journal - "INCREDIBLE." -- John U.
We have forgotten.
Description In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5, 000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow
