When the United States Invaded Russia: Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster

"An intriguing and carefully argued entry into a small and often overlooked discussion of American political maneuvering at the end of World War I." —Library Journal

In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson's original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central Powers. But Wilson continued ...