Michigan's Polar Bears
Author: Richard M. Doolen
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRead and Download eBook Full
Author: Richard M. Doolen
Publisher:
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Godfrey J. Anderson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0802865208
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldier's experiences during President Woodrow Wilson's ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern Russia. --from publisher description
Author: James Carl Nelson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-02-19
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0062852795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not. "AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon • "EXCEPTIONAL.” — Patrick K. O’Donnell • "A MASTER OF NARRATIVE HISTORY." — Mitchell Yockelson • "GRIPPING." — Matthew J. 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. 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. The Polar Bears, hailing largely from Michigan, heroically waged a courageous campaign in the brutal, frigid subarctic of northern Russia for almost a year. And yet they are all but unknown today. Indeed, during the Cold War, two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon, would assert that the American and the Russian people had never directly fought each other. They were spectacularly wrong, and so too is the nation's collective memory. It began in August 1918, during the last months of the First World War: the U.S. 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. The American Expeditionary Force, North Russia, had been sent to fight the Soviet Red Army and aid anti-Bolshevik forces in hopes of reopening the Eastern Front against Germany. And yet even after the Great War officially ended in November 1918, American troops continued to battle the Red Army and another, equally formiddable enemy, "General Winter," which had destroyed Napoleon's Grand Armee a century earlier and would do the same to Hitler's once invincible Wehrmacht. More than two hundred Polar Bears perished before their withdrawal in July 1919. But their story does not end there. Ten years after they left, a contingent of veterans returned to Russia to recover the remains of more than a hundred of their fallen brothers and lay them to rest in Michigan, where a monument honoring their service still stands. In the century since, America has forgotten the Polar Bears' harrowing campaign. Russia, notably, has not, and as Nelson reveals, the episode continues to color Russian attitudes toward the United States. At once epic and intimate, The Polar Bear Expedition masterfully recovers this remarkable tale at a time of new relevance.
Author: Ian Stirling
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780472081080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA treasury of information and outstanding photographs brought together to reveal the fascinating life of the symbol of Arctic survival, the polar bear
Author: Anderson
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bentley Historical Library
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John M. House
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2016-06-15
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0817318895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the final months of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and many US allies decided to intervene in Siberia in order to protect Allied wartime and business interests, among them the Trans-Siberian Railroad, from the turmoil surrounding the Russian Revolution. American troops would remain until April 1920 with some of our allies keeping troops in Siberia even longer. These soldiers eventually played a role in the Russian revolution while protecting the Trans-Siberian Railroad. This book brings their story to life.
Author: Linda Tagliaferro
Publisher: Paw Prints
Published: 2008-08-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781439544150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of polar bears.
Author: William A. Comfort
Publisher:
Published: 19??
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hans De Beer
Publisher: NorthSouth (NY)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780735812161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile hunting with his father, a young polar bear drifts out to sea and ends up in a jungle where a friendly hippopotamus helps him return home.