A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks by Godfrey J. Anderson

Read a review of the book by our own Rachel Bomberger on EerdWord. Authors: Godfrey J Anderson, Gordon Olson, Gordon L Olson. Watch a preview of the PBS documentary of the Polar Bears, Voices of a Never Ending Dawn. A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks 1st edition A War Memoir. Anderson's unit set up field hospitals in the vast Arctic wilderness, endured the bitter cold of winter and the ravages of the Spanish flu, rubbed shoulders with Russian villagers, rescued scores of wounded from the advancing Bolsheviks in a harrowing nighttime retreat by sleigh - and more.Īnderson's autobiographical narrative has an irresistible charm and transparency to it a substantial introduction by Michigan historian Gordon Olson sets the geopolitical stage for this gripping and down-to-earth war memoir. A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A War Memoir the 337th Field Hospital in Northern Russia, 1918-1919 : Anderson, Godfrey J., Olson, Gordon L.: Amazon. 'Polar Bears' medical corps, Godfrey Anderson (1895–1981) tells of his travels by ship and train to Archangel, Russia, where a 5,000-man American contingent joined forces with French, British, Canadian, and local Cossack fighters to hold back the Red Army. : A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks: A War Memoir (9780802865205) by Anderson, Godfrey J. When he was drafted for duty in the United States Army during World War I, Godfrey Anderson had no idea he was about to embark on a horrific adventure that would find him doing battle with Bolshevik revolutionaries in the frozen reaches of northern Russia. This rare volume 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 - a little-remembered event in U.S. Contains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldiers experiences during President Woodrow Wilsons ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern Russia.

A Michigan Polar Bear Confronts the Bolsheviks by Godfrey J. Anderson