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100 1  Nelson, James Carl,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Polar Bear Expedition :|bthe heroes of America's 
       forgotten invasion of Russia, 1918-1919|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cJames Carl Nelson. 
246 3  Heroes of America's forgotten invasion of Russia 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2019. 
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511 0  Read by Johnny Heller. 
520    An extraordinary lost chapter in the history of World War 
       I: the story of America's year-long invasion of Russia, in
       which a contingency of brave soldiers fought the Red Army 
       and brutal conditions during the fall and winter of 1918-
       1919. In August 1918, the 339th regiment of the U.S. Army-
       roughly 5,000 soldiers, most hailing from Michigan-sailed 
       for Europe to fight in World War I. But instead of the 
       Western Front, these troops were headed to Archangel, 
       Russia, a vital port city 1,000 miles northeast of Moscow.
       There, in the frozen subarctic, amid the chaos of the 
       Russian Civil War, one of the most extraordinary episodes 
       of American history unfolded. The American North Russia 
       Expeditionary Force-self-dubbed "The Polar Bear 
       Expedition"-was sent to fight the Red Army and aid anti-
       Bolshevik forces in hopes of re-opening the Eastern Front 
       against Germany. On the 100th anniversary of the campaign,
       award-winning historian James Carl Nelson recreates this 
       harrowing, dramatic military operation in which Americans 
       and Bolsheviks fought a series of pitched battles 
       throughout a punishing fall and winter. As the Great War 
       officially ended in November 1918, American troops 
       continued to battle the Red Army and an equally formidable
       enemy, "General Winter." Subzero temperatures made machine
       guns and light artillery inoperable. In the blinding ice 
       and snow, sentries suffered from frostbite while guarding 
       against nearly invisible Bolos camouflaged by their white 
       uniforms. Before the Polar Bears' withdrawal in July 1919,
       more than 200 perished from battle, accidents, and the 
       Spanish flu. But the Polar Bears' story does not end 
       there. Ten years later, a contingent of veterans returned 
       to Russia to recover the remains of more than 100 of their
       fallen comrades and lay them to rest in Michigan, where a 
       monument honoring their service still stands: a massive 
       marble polar bear guarding a cross that marks the grave of
       a fallen soldier. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
610 10 United States.|bArmy.|bInfantry Regiment, 339th|xHistory. 
650  0 Soldiers|zMichigan|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 World War, 1914-1918|xRegimental histories|zUnited States.
651  0 Michigan|xHistory, Military|y20th century. 
651  0 Soviet Union|xHistory|yAllied intervention, 1918-1920. 
700 1  Heller, Johnny,|enarrator. 
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