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
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
The author of The Last of the Doughboys goes back to French battlegrounds of World War I to understand why memories of that war are so present in the minds and hearts of modern-day French people.
Contents:
Prologue: Follow me -- Like traveling back in time -- The soul of the battlefield -- Chemin des Américains -- From the bowels of the earth -- What if -- The burnt woods and the ball-shaped tree -- Red giant -- The devil's basket -- History and memory.
Subjects:
Rubin, Richard -- Travel -- France.
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Collective memory.
United States -- Relations -- France.
France -- Relations -- United States.
Rubin, Richard -- Travel -- France.
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
Collective memory.
United States -- Relations -- France.
France -- Relations -- United States.
ISBN:
9781250084323
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWI Rub | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-282) and index.