America's Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923

by Robert Shenk

Book Overview

Drawing on previously untapped sources, Robert Shenk offers a revealing portrait of America's small Black Sea fleet in the years following World War I. In a high-tempo series of operations throughout the Black and Aegean Seas and the eastern Mediterranean, this small force of destroyers and other naval vessels responded ably to several major international crises. Home-ported in Constantinople, U.S. Navy ships helped evacuate some 150,000 White Russians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 168247187X
• ISBN13: 9781682471876
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"