David Laskin
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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World War I Collection Spotlight - American Experience
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
World War I Collection Spotlight - Essentials [Adult]
Description
The United States has always been a nation of immigrants-never more so than in 1917 when the nation entered the First World War. Of the 2.5 million soldiers who fought with U.S. armed forces in the trenches of France and Belgium, some half a million-nearly one out of every five men-were immigrants. In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of the prizewinning history The Children's Blizzard, tells the stories of twelve of these immigrant heroes....
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the 20th century through the story of an extraordinary Jewish family, recounting how the author's 19th-century ancestors were separated by period upheavals in western Russia and went on to become the founders of the Maidenform Bra Company, pioneers in the contentious birth of Israel, and victims of the Holocaust.
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