American Polar Bears in Russia : soldiers of the 339th Infantry and the Archangel Campaign, 1918-1919 /

"At the end of World War I, the U.S. Army 339th Infantry--nicknamed the "Polar Bears"--was deployed to northern Russia to prevent Allied supplies stockpiled near the port city of Archangel from falling into the hands of the Bolsheviks. Drawing on firsthand accounts from men in the reg...

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