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Indlæser... 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 (2017)af Richard Rubin
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.4144History and Geography Europe Europe Military History Of World War I Operations And Units EuropeLC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
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The scale of WWI dwarfs the American Civil War, and thus artifacts litter the countryside from the Atlantic to Switzerland. It's too big for any one person to take in so there are local "experts" who have discovered where the interesting sites are to be found. A sort of culture of unofficial experts has arisen, each a master of his local fief. And most of the locations are remote and unvisited, one needs to bushwhack through woods to discover overgrown bunkers. Surprisingly the rural French of some of these regions love Americans, at least a romanticized version of America (big cars, Indians etc). Yet few Americans visit there - it's off the tourist track because no one speaks English (the rural French dislike the English), accommodations rustic and the sites mostly odd things only a war nerd would enjoy. ( )