In The Long Way Home, award-winning writer David Laskin traces the lives of a dozen men, eleven of whom left their childhood homes in Europe, journeyed through Ellis Island, and started over in a strange land.
Italians, Jews, Poles, Norwegians, Slovaks, Russians, and Irishmen entered the army as aliens and returned as Americans, often as heroes.
Yet World War I would change their lives and ultimately reshape the nation itself. Many of these immigrant soldiersmost of whom had been draftedknew little of America outside of tight-knit ghettos and backbreaking labor. involvement in the war, nearly one in five American soldiers was foreign-born. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, one-third of the nation's population had been born overseas or had a parent who was an immigrant. From the author of The Children's Blizzard comes an epic story of the sacrifice and service of an immigrant generation.
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