Love and Death in the Great War
Book description
Americans today harbor no strong or consistent collective memory of the First World War. Ask why they fought or what they accomplished, and "democracy" is the most likely if vague response.
The circulation of confusing or lofty rationales for intervention started from the moment President Woodrow Wilson secured a war…
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Why read it?
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Huebner uses previously un- and understudied correspondence in the University of Alabama, State Historical Society of Missouri, and other special collections and archives to illustrate romantic and familial bonds between World War I soldiers and their loved ones. Some soldiers made it back to the US alive, and some did not. Huebner's work is especially evocative of how families waited years after the war was over to receive soldier's remains after their hasty burials in France in 1917 or 1918, prolonging their sorrow and ability to give those soldiers a proper goodbye.