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The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (Hardcover)

By David Laskin
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From the author of The Children's Blizzard comes an epic story of the sacrifice and service of an immigrant generation.

When the United States entered World War I in 1917, one-third of the nation's population had been born overseas or had a parent who was an immigrant. At the peak of U.S. involvement in the war, nearly one in five American soldiers was foreign-born. Many of these immigrant soldiers—most of whom had been drafted—knew little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor. Yet World War I would change their lives and ultimately reshape the nation itself. Italians, Jews, Poles, Norwegians, Slovaks, Russians, and Irishmen entered the army as aliens and returned as Americans, often as heroes.

In The Long Way Home, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men, eleven of whom left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land. After detailing the daily realities of immigrant life in the factories, farms, mines, and cities of a rapidly growing nation, Laskin tells the heartbreaking stories of how these men—both conscripts and volunteers—joined the army, were swept into the ordeal of boot camp, and endured the month of hell that ended the war at the Argonne, where they truly became Americans. Those who survived were profoundly altered—and their experiences would shape the lives of their families as well.

Epic, inspiring, and masterfully written, The Long Way Home is the unforgettable true story of the Great War, the world it remade, and the men who fought for a country not of their birth, but which held the hope and opportunity of a better way of life.

About the Author


David Laskin is the author of The Children's Blizzard, the story of six families who endured the great midwestern blizzard of 1888; the book won the 2006 Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award for nonfiction and the Washington State Book Award. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Smithsonian magazine. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Product Details ISBN-10: 0061233331
ISBN-13: 9780061233333
Published: Harper, 02/24/2010
Pages: 416
Language: English
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