The long way home an American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400194506 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1400194504 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
remote - Publisher: Old Saybrook : Tantor Media, 2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 13:22:17. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Erik Synnestvedt. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 192190 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | United States. -- Army -- Biography World War, 1914-1918 -- Biography Soldiers -- United States -- Biography Immigrants -- United States -- Biography |
Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Summary:
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...