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The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War / Richard Rubin.

Rubin, Richard. (Author). Joseph M. Bruccoli Great War Collection (University of Virginia) (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780547554433
Physical Description: viii, 518 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.