The author of the award-winning The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin, returns with a remarkable true story of the immigrants who risked their lives fighting for America during the Great War.
"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
