The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war / Richard Rubin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rubin, Richard.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Veterans--United States.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Personal narratives, American.

Centenarians.

United States.

Soldiers--United States--Biography.

Soldiers.

Veterans--United States--Biography.

Veterans.

Centenarians--United States--Biography.

Genre:

Personal narratives -- American.

Biographies.

Personal narratives.

Physical Description:

viii, 518 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-500) and index.

ISBN:

9780547554433

0547554435

OCLC:

801441040