World War I, also called The Great War, inaugurated the modern age—but the key contributions of women and minorities to the American effort remain largely overlooked.
Richard Rubin is the author of The Last of the Doughboys and the best-selling Confederacy of Silence. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Parade, and New York. He lives in New York and Maine.
Lost Generation
For more than two years, Richard Rubin had been tracking down all the American World War I veterans still living for his book, The Last of the Doughboys. But when he started talking to a man named Merlyn Krueger, something didn’t seem right.