The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
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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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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- English
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File Size | 16 GB |
ISBN | 9780547843698 |
Release Date | 6/1/2018 |
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ASIN | B008LQ1XII |
Release Date | 6/1/2018 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780547843698 |
Release Date | 6/1/2018 |