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

Richard Rubin, Grover Gardner

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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Published
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Main Authors
Richard Rubin, Grover Gardner
Online Access
Overdrive Resource Page
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MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size580 GB
Parts23
ISBN9781483073576
Release Date5/21/2013
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size580 GB
ISBN9781483073576
Release Date5/21/2013