The Last of the Doughboys
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 518
ISBN-13: 9780547554433
Description: 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.