The Long Way Home-An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War (Used Signed Hardcover) - David Laskin Language To never slow down

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revealing how an icon of rugged American masculinity was profoundly shaped by the women in his life

~ Mike Francis the Oregonian

The Long Way Home-An American Journey From Ellis Island To The Great War (Used Signed Hardcover) - David Laskin Language To never slow downThe 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 prize winning history The Children's Blizzard, tells the stories of 12 of these immigrant heroes.