When Hell Froze Over: The Secret War Between the U.S. and Russia at the Top of the World!
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ISBN: 0743407261 / Publisher: Simon & Schuster, October 2000
A new edition of Halliday's long out-of-print history of America's only armed conflict with Russia describes a 1918 American mission by the ill-fated American Expeditionary Force into North Russia, where they scored several victories over Bolshevik forces before being forced to retreat because of harsh winter conditions.
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BLOOD AND ICE On November 11, 1918, World War I officially ended. But for the men of the ill-starred American Expeditionary Force to North Russia, the fighting had only begun. Plagued by meager supplies, poor leadership, and the tack of a clear-cut objective, this small but valiant American contingent fought impossible odds, scoring several stunning victories against the Bolsheviks before superior numbers and the bone-breaking arctic winter that had defeated Napoleon forced them to withdraw. Now, in this clear, forthright account, E.M. Halliday re-creates one of the most obscure but important of America's foreign interventions: an epic of confusion, endurance, failure -- and gallantry -- that history almost forgot and the Russians never forgave. Only today, more than seventy years after the Allied occupation of Archangel, have American-Soviet relations begun to thaw.
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