America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920
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America's Siberian Adventure 1918-1920 recounts the covert campaign by the US to stabilize a region plagued by an uprising of multiple conflicts following the end of World War 1. General William Graves was the man sent to Siberia to lead an expeditionary force deep into the frozen interior, where Graves…
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Few Americans wind up in Siberia. Yet President Woodrow Wilson dispatched General William S. Graves and 8,000 soldiers to Siberia just as it was plunging into civil war. Contrary to many outsiders who viewed the Russian Civil War as a struggle between the bad guys (the Bolsheviks) and the good guys (their opponents), he discovered that many of the “good guys” were pretty bad also.
We found Graves’s book full of fascinating stories, including skirmishes Americans engaged in while in Siberia. Graves sounds a little cranky, but we think his book is a must-read not only for those who want…
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