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America's Black Sea fleet : the U.S. Navy amidst war and revolution, 1919-1923 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shenk, Robert, 1943-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Black Sea Region > History, Naval > 20th century.
United States. > Navy > Foreign service > Turkey.
United States. > Navy > Foreign service > Black Sea.
United States. > Navy > History > 20th century.
United States > History, Naval > 20th century.
Turkey > History, Naval > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • The arrival
  • Turkey in 1919 and the American commissions
  • The admiral, the Embassy, and the crisis in Cilicia
  • The White Russian invasion
  • Death in the Pontus
  • After dark in Pera and Galata
  • The great Russian famine
  • Swimming the Hellespont and other naval recreation
  • Shipboard life
  • The burning of Smyrna
  • The expulsion of the minorities and Constantinople's last fling
  • The departure.