The Last of the Doughboys The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
eAudio - 2013
In 2003, eighty-five years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interviewed them. All are gone now.A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their war led Rubin across the United States and France, through archives, private collections, battlefields, literature, propaganda, and even music. But at the center of it all were the last of the last, the men and women he met.He met a new immigrant, drafted and sent to France, whose life was saved by a horse; a Connecticut Yankee who volunteered and fought in every major American battle; a Cajun artilleryman ne...arly killed by a German airplane; an eighteen-year-old Bronx girl "drafted" to work for the War Department; a machine gunner from Montana; a marine wounded at Belleau Wood; the sixteen-year-old who became America's last World...
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Blackstone Publishing
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File Size | 580 GB |
Parts | 23 |
ISBN | 9781483073576 |
Release Date | 5/21/2013 |
OverDrive Listen audiobook | |
File Size | 580 GB |
ISBN | 9781483073576 |
Release Date | 5/21/2013 |