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Author:
Shenk, Robert, 1943-
Title:
America's Black Sea fleet : the U.S. Navy amidst war and revolution, 1919-1923 / Robert Shenk.
Publisher:
Naval Institute Press,
Copyright Date:
c2012
Description:
xviii, 365 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Subject:
United States.--Navy--Foreign service--Turkey.
United States.--Navy--Foreign service--Black Sea.
United States.--Navy--History--20th century.
United States--History, Naval--20th century.
Turkey--History, Naval--20th century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The arrival -- Turkey in 1919 and the American commissions -- The admiral, the Embassy, and the crisis in Cilicia -- The White Russian invasion -- Death in the Pontus -- After dark in Pera and Galata -- The great Russian famine -- Swimming the Hellespont and other naval recreation -- Shipboard life -- The burning of Smyrna -- The expulsion of the minorities and Constantinople's last fling -- The departure.
ISBN:
1612510531 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781612510538 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN:
2012028104
Locations:
BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

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