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 · 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 bltadwin.ru In The Long Way Home, David Laskin, author of the prize-winning history The Children's Blizzard, tells the stories of 12 of these immigrant heroes. Starting with their childhoods in Europe, Laskin unfolds the saga of their journeys to Ellis Island, their struggles to start over in the land of opportunity, and the ordeal of their return to Europe in uniform to fight - and win - a war that had already killed tens of millions. bltadwin.ru: The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War (): David Laskin: Books.

The Long Way Home. by. David Laskin (Goodreads Author) · Rating details · ratings · 83 reviews. From the author of The Children's Blizzard comes an epic story of the sacrifice of an immigrant generation. When the United States entered World War I in , one-third of the nation's population had been born overseas or had a parent. Yet, as David Laskin explores in The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, the influx of Italians, Poles, Slavs and Jews has become a golden age thanks to the perspective of a century of history. At the time, immigrants tended to have low-paying jobs, often lived in their own sections of cities where little. THE LONG WAY HOME by David Laskin is pages long, printed on off-white paper, with 16 pages of glossy black and white photos. The photos show immigrants on ocean liners, crowded street scenes in New York City, and some of the actual characters of this book, e.g., Matej Kocak (Slovak), Tommaso Ottaviano (Italian), Meyer Epstein (Russian Jew from the Pale), Epifanio Affatato (Italian), Max.

As much about the immigrant experience circa as it is about World War I, David Laskin's The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War offers a unique perspective - or perspectives - on World War I. Laskin has painstakingly reconstructed the histories of a dozen young, fresh immigrants to the United States, all of whom - by choice or by chance - return to the "Old Country" as soldiers in their adopted country's army to face the horrors of World War I. David Laskin's "The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War" tells the story of the millions of immigrants who came to the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. He focuses on twelve men beginning with the back stories of their families' plight in Europe. David Laskin, author page at HarperCollins; Laskin, David (Septem). "On Hallowed Ground, a Place of Painful Beauty". The New York Times. "David Laskin's Blog". Archived from the original on Poe, Marshall (April 2, ). "The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War". New Books in History.