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The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war / Richard Rubin.
- Title
- The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war / Richard Rubin.
- Author
- Rubin, Richard.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | D639.V48 U67 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 518 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, Rubin managed to find dozens of American veterans of World War I, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now. They were the final survivors of the millions who made up the American Expeditionary Forces. Self-reliant, humble, and stoic, they kept their stories to themselves for a lifetime, then shared them at the last possible moment, so that they, and the World War they won, might at last be remembered.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Personal narratives – American
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-500) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Prologue: No Man's Land -- Wolves on the Battlefield -- Over the Top -- The American Sector -- Cheer and Laughter and Joyous Shout -- The People Behind the Battle -- The Forgotten Generation -- Give a Little Credit to the Navy -- A Vast Enterprise in Salesmanship -- Hell, We Just Got Here -- We Didn't See a Thing -- Loyal, True, Straight and Square -- Old Dixieland in France -- L'Ossuaire -- A Wicked Gun, That Machine Gun -- Wasn't a Lot of Help -- The Last Night of the War -- The Last of the Last -- We Are All Missing You Very Much.
- ISBN
- 9780547554433 (hbk.)
- 0547554435 (hbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2013000614
- OCLC
- 801441040
- SCSB-11241533
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library