Long Way Home, The: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (P.S.) - Tapa blanda

"David Laskin's "The Long Way Home" is a brilliant blending of social analysis and personal narrative, which recovers the experience of a 'lost generation'--the immigrant 'greenhorns' who became Americans through service on the battlefields of World War I."--Richard Slotkin, author of "Gunfighter Nation"

"David Laskin's latest, "The Long Way Home", reads with the heart-quickening pace of a novel as he focuses his gaze on a band of real-life characters who emigrated to the United States in the years just before World War I."--"The Minneapolis Star Tribune"

"David Laskin's latest, "The Long Way Home," reads with the heart-quickening pace of a novel as he focuses his gaze on a band of real-life characters who emigrated to the United States in the years just before World War I."--"The Minneapolis Star Tribune"

David Laskin s "The Long Way Home" is a brilliant blending of social analysis and personal narrative, which recovers the experience of a lost generation the immigrant greenhorns who became Americans through service on the battlefields of World War I. --Richard Slotkin, author of "Gunfighter Nation""

Moving, revealing, and lovingly researched, this book is a must read, and a "great" read, for any of us whose forebears came from overseas-meaning just about all of us. --Erik Larson, author of "The Devil in the White City""

A riveting remembrance of the Great War by a master writer. David Laskin, by homing in on the lives of a dozen immigrants to Ellis Island, is able to tell a grand American saga about the true cost of democracy. All around a deeply compelling narrative. --Douglas Brinkley, author of "The Wilderness Warrior""

Laskin s tracing of young immigrants, figuratively and literally, from Ellis Island to the trenches of World War I France blends moving personal stories, sociology, culture and military history. The result is a marvelous evocation of what it means to become an American and the many paths to that end. --Joseph Persico, author of "Eleven Month, Eleven Day, Eleventh Hour""

Riveting. . . . With the epic history of the Great War as his backdrop, Laskin has vividly brought these extraordinary, colorful men to life and created, overall, an absolute masterpiece. --Andrew Carroll, editor of "War Letters" and "Behind the Lines"

David Laskin s latest, "The Long Way Home," reads with the heart-quickening pace of a novel as he focuses his gaze on a band of real-life characters who emigrated to the United States in the years just before World War I. --"The Minneapolis Star Tribune""

"David Laskin's The Long Way Home is a brilliant blending of social analysis and personal narrative, which recovers the experience of a 'lost generation'--the immigrant 'greenhorns' who became Americans through service on the battlefields of World War I."--Richard Slotkin, author of Gunfighter Nation