A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks
Subtitle: a war memoir : the 337th Field Hospital in northern Russia, 1918-1919
By: Godfrey J. Anderson ; edited and with an introduction by Gordon L. Olson
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans; Eerdmans
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich.
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780802865205
Description: Contains 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
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Woodrow Wilson and the use of American troops; title: From farm boy to soldier; title: Passage from New York to England; title: Newcastle to Archangel; title: Archangel to Shenkursk; title: Retreat from Shenkursk; title: Respite at Beresnik; title: Archangel to Grand Rapids; title: Postscript : Godfrey Anderson's legacy; title: Appendixes.; title: Liverpool to Brookwood Station; title: Brookwood Station to Newcastle; title: A treatise on "The Cootie"; title: Two poems about the "Polar Bears"