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Lewis E. Jahns

Best known as one of the co-authors of a vivid firsthand history of the U.S. campaign in North Russia after World War I, this writer helped preserve a little-known chapter of American military history. His surviving published record is slim, but the book remains a valuable eyewitness account.

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The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki

by Lewis E. Jahns, Harry H. Mead, Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

About the author

Lewis E. Jahns is credited as one of the authors of The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki: Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919, first published in 1920. Library of Congress and HathiTrust catalog records list him alongside Joel R. Moore and Harry H. Mead, and Project Gutenberg also identifies that title as the only work currently listed under his name.

The book is closely tied to the American intervention in North Russia during the Russian Civil War and is presented as a participant's account of that campaign. Because reliable biographical material about Jahns himself is scarce in the sources I could confirm, it is safest to remember him primarily through this collaboration and its contribution to military memoir and wartime history.

For listeners interested in overlooked corners of 20th-century history, Jahns's work offers a direct window into a harsh and unusual expedition that many general histories barely mention.