Back Over There

Back Over ThereDescription by Richard Rubin Hardcover In The Last of the Doughboys, Richard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the wars last survivors face to face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story. But he soon came to realize that to get the whole story, he had to go Over There, too. So he did, and discovered that while

those that stayed at home or otherwise played no significant part in the conflict

Written in crisp

engaging with key debates around the adequacy of British generalship and whether or not there was a significant 'learning curve' in terms of the development of operational art during the course of the war

as well as exploring the way that human beings interacted with these extraordinary alien environments

But containing

WORLD WAR I takes us from the first shots in Sarajevo to the signing of the peace treaty in Versailles and through every bunker

The Path to War offers both a compelling narrative and the inescapable conclusion that World War One was no parenthetical exception in the American story but a moment of national self-determination

by Mike Osborne

The Casemate Classic War Fiction Series publishers new editions of forgotten classics that perfectly capture their era

Mark Levitch has written the first history and analysis of the Panthéon

a love song for his family

Recognizing that “The Great War was the psychological turning point