The Last of the Doughboys

The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War

Ranked #48 in World War I

The Last of the Doughboys is more than simply a war story: It is a moving meditation on character, grace, aging, and memory.
In 2003, 85 years after the armistice, it took Richard Rubin months to find just one living American veteran of World War I. But then, he found another. And another. Eventually he managed to find dozens, aged 101 to 113, and interview them. All are gone now.

A decade-long odyssey to recover the story of a forgotten generation and their Great War led Rubin across the United States and France, through archives, private...

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