Back Over There One American Time Traveler 100 years Since the Great War 500 Miles of Battle Scarred French Countryside and Too Many Trenches Shells Legends and Ghosts to Count Richard Rubin 9781250084323, 1250084326

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• ISBN-10: 1250084326
• ISBN-13: 9781250084323
• Author: Rubin 

In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story, he had to go Over There, too. So he did, and discovered that while most Americans regard that war as dead and gone, to the French, who still live among its ruins and memories, it remains very much alive.

Years later, with the centennial of the war only magnifying this paradox, Rubin decided to go back Over There to see if he could, at last, resolve it. For months he followed the trail of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front, finding trenches, tunnels, bunkers, century-old graffiti and ubiquitous artifacts. But he also found an abiding fondness for America and Americans, and a colorful corps of local after-hours historians and archeologists who tirelessly explore these sites and preserve the memories they embody while patiently waiting for Americans to return and reclaim their own history and heritage. None of whom seemed to mind that his French needed work.

Table of contents:

One: Like Traveling Back in Time

Two: The Soul of the Battlefield

Three: Chemin des Américains

Four: From the Bowels of the Earth

Five: What If

Six: The Burnt Woods and the Ball-Shaped Tree

Seven: Red Giant

Eight: The Devil’s Basket

Epilogue: History and Memory

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