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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.

Title
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.
Author
Rubin, Richard
Publication
  • New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
  • ©2017

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Description
294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Summary
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.
Subject
  • Rubin, Richard > Travel > France
  • United States. American Expeditionary Forces
  • 1914-1918
  • 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
Genre/Form
Travel writing
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-282) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9781250084323
  • 1250084326
  • 9781250084330 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
^^2016049921
OCLC
947146031
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library