Название: The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America’s Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919
Автор: James Carl Nelson
Издательство: William Morrow
ISBN: 0062852779
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 320
Размер: 23,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

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.
In the winter of 1919, 5,000 U.S. 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. Temperatures plummeted to sixty below zero. Their guns and their flesh froze. The Bolsheviks, camouflaged in white, advanced in waves across the snow like ghosts.