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Author Rubin, Richard, author.

Title 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 / Richard Rubin.

Publication Info. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  940.4 RUB    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.4144 RUBIN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  940.4144 RUB    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - NEW Adult Nonfiction  940.4144 RUB    Lost and Paid
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.4144 RUBIN    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  940.41 RUBIN    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 294 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-282) and index.
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.
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.
Subject Rubin, Richard -- Travel -- France.
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Influence.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Battlefields -- France.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front.
United States -- Relations -- France.
France -- Relations -- United States.
Collective memory.
United States -- Relations -- France.
Genre/Form Travel writing.
Travel writing. (OCoLC)fst01919983
Subject Rubin, Richard. (OCoLC)fst00499675
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces. (OCoLC)fst00589449
World War (1914-1918) (OCoLC)fst01180746
Chronological Term 1914-1918
Subject Battlefields. (OCoLC)fst00828910
Collective memory. (OCoLC)fst01739814
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
International relations. (OCoLC)fst00977053
Military campaigns. (OCoLC)fst01710190
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Western Front (World War (1914-1918)) (OCoLC)fst01900003
ISBN 9781250084323 hardcover
1250084326 hardcover
9781250084330 electronic book
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