America's black sea fleet
Journal: OpenEdition (OpenEdition)
Year: 2014

SHENK Robert America's black sea fleet : the U.S. navy amidst war and revolution, 1919-1923 Annapolis : U.S. Naval Institute, 2012, XVIII-365 p. ISBN 978-1-612-51053-8 MOND 617 Resume editeur : Drawing heavily on previously unknown sources, Robert Shenk offers a revealing portrait of America’s small Black Sea Fleet in the years following World War I. Home-ported in Constantinople, navy ships sped to the Crimea to help evacuate some 150,000 White Russians, and then coordinated the grain shipm...