The Last of the Doughboys
by Richard Rubin
"The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War"
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The Last of the Doughboys by Richard Rubin
Details
War:
World War I
True Story:
Yes
Biography:
No
Region:
Europe
Page Count:
518
Published Date:
2014
ISBN13:
9780544290488
Summary
The Last of the Doughboys chronicles journalist Richard Rubin's decade-long quest to find and interview America's surviving World War I veterans in the early 2000s. Through conversations with these centenarians, Rubin captures firsthand accounts of trench warfare, mustard gas attacks, and life on the Western Front before these stories vanished forever. The book combines oral history with Rubin's own travels to WWI battlefields, rescuing the experiences of America's "doughboys" from obscurity and honoring a generation whose sacrifices had largely been overshadowed by World War II.
