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Book

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

Call Number

  • 940.4144 R8965 (OSH)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

Physical 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.

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.

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