The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

Richard Rubin

eBook - 2013

“Before the Greatest Generation, there was the Forgotten Generation of World War I . . . wonderfully engaging” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). “Richard Rubin has done something that will never be possible for anyone to do again. His interviews with the last American World War I veterans—who have all since died—bring to vivid life a cataclysm that changed our world forever but that remains curiously forgotten here.” —Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914–1918 In 2003, eighty-five years after the end of World War I, Richard Rubin set out to see if he could still find and talk to someone who had actually served in the American Expeditionary Forces during that colossal conflict.... Ultimately he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, from Cape Cod to Carson City, who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories...

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Published
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Main Author
Richard Rubin
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Adobe EPUB eBook
File Size16 GB
ISBN9780547843698
Release Date6/1/2018
Kindle Book
ASINB008LQ1XII
Release Date6/1/2018
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780547843698
Release Date6/1/2018