In January 1918, when 25-year-old Michigan school teacher Donald Carey received his draft notice and joined "Detroit's Own" 339th Infantry Regiment, he expected soon to be in France. Instead, the regiment was posted to northern Russia as part of an international force put together to defeat the Bolsheviks. Here Carey and his doughboy comrades-in-arms battled the Bolshevik forces of the Russian revolution in a war of which most Americans are completely unaware. It was war at its worst: slogging t...