The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten World War
(Book)

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

In 2003, 85 years after the end of World War I, Richard Rubin set out to see if he could still find and talk to someone who had actually served in the American Expeditionary Forces during that colossal conflict. Ultimately, he found dozens, aged 101 to 113, from Cape Cod to Carson City, who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories of America's Great War. Nineteenth-century men and women living in the twenty-first century, they were self-reliant, humble, and stoic, never complaining, but still marveling at the immensity of the war they helped win, and the complexity of the world they helped create. A decade in the making, The Last of the Doughboys is a sweeping look at America's First World War, a reminder of the tremendously important role America played in the war to end all wars, and a meditation on character, grace, aging, and memory.