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File Size: 42012 KB
Print Length: 306 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (April 4, 2017)
Publication Date: April 4, 2017
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B01LY4RMS6
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Anyone who studies history knows that the preserved record of the past: documents, artifacts and testimony are only fragments of what was--most of the stories are lost to us. When a historian reaches a dead end, turning around is the easiest option, writing predictable scholarship about a subject that can be named and tamed, backed up with sufficient and convincing evidence. Where historians bail out, Richard Rubin keeps going--and this is his brilliance. He is after story, being a storyteller, not merely the historical record. Historians like to look for holes in the story but for Rubin craters and trenches are his subjects--along with the vacancies in the past, the unrecoverable. There is a lot of wondering and wandering in Back Over There but it's more than a war tourist's jaunt-through-the-battlefields travelogue, although he does seem to have quite a good time, which sometimes feels both odd and a nice break from all that historical slaughter. The Great War becomes present on these pages as Rubin walks us through French fields still churning up live shells, shrapnel, bullets, bayonets, horseshoes, wagon wheels, barbed wire. The French countryside (and the war dead and the killing equipment it absorbed) becomes almost the main character of this book. France lost a million men in World War I, an entire generation. Rubin's focus is mostly on the American forces, as it was in his previous book Last of the Doughboys, where he interviewed the last surviving centenarian American veterans, and here he retraces some of the steps of those veterans--Rubin digs the loss up again and finds what he can. There is a lot of wit here and humility in wrestling with the vastness of the Great War as a subject, and a really fantastic description of mud. And there is compassion in Rubin's storytelling, by compassion I mean the origin of that word--suffer with--as he relates the close-up battle descriptions of how those crushing numbers of dead in the Great War died, and it matters to him that he find exactly which corner of which farmer's field it happened in a century ago. Rubin cleverly weaves in what little we do know about some of the enlisted and a few civilians and introduces us to individuals (and whole towns) we wish hadn't died. Historians give us context and linear truths we can't untangle ourselves from--essential work--storytellers make us for a moment believe that we're still entrenched, that the past still matters. There are moments when Rubin holds back from really letting it all get to him and I wish he had pushed further into the weeds toward whatever darkness he's tracking--his writing is so good, you know he could have carried even more out of those fields--but there is the sense as he literally crawls out of massive craters on his hands and knees or traverses slippery tunnels at Vauquois that these stories won't let him go. Obsession is a word I'd use to describe his stroll hacking through the weeds of trenches and exploring the still intact concrete German bunkers in the otherwise bucolic French landscape. If Rubin stops short of the poet's mission to "rescue the dead" (Ignatow), he succeeds in making the past a place you can actually visit, he knows the way there and can show you--and his book builds a fascinating bridge back over. 4/16/17
Richard Rubin had the great honor to interview some of the last surviving Americans who had fought in the First World War before they passed from this life. He planned a journey to visit those places that had become part of his life through hours of conversation. This book opens on the scene of America's last casualty of this terrible war; Rubin is lost and under threat of being trapped in the clay-binding mud of Lorraine, far from any help. He takes us through the vast quantity of spent munitions, duds, and detritus of war that float to the surface of French fields every Spring, like so many rocks in the cultivated furrows of a New England farm. Those French farmers live a daily life of an uncertain future. His writing provides us a metaphor for the whole war. The abandoned bunkers, empty trenches, the art work in the chalk walls of the under-ground quarries that had sheltered soldiers from both sides are here in this book. The beautiful and warm hearted prose takes the reader through the former American Sector of the First World War, a part of France where people still hold fond feelings towards a people who crossed the Ocean to fight for their freedom. Many of those people will be found between the covers of this book. Whether you seek to understand this "Unknown American War" or are planning your own pilgrimage to a special place in your family's own World War 1 history, this book has something for you.
This book was exactly my kind of book! It was a blend of history and travelogue that was an attempt to make sense of what happened through the lens of the present and connect it to those places in France where Americans fought and how those places remember it today. I can see why the subtitle refers to Rubin as a “time travelerâ€. I am a History teacher and was motivated to be one, at least in part, by a desire to time travel myself. This book feels as much like time travel as is currently possible. Rubin’s travel to France on multiple occasions was motivated by his earlier interviews with the few living Doughboys left. All of those men were over 100 when Rubin interviewed him, and having read his earlier book The Last of The Doughboys, I appreciated his connections to places he was visiting to the men he had interviewed earlier. I have been to France multiple times, but have yet to be fortunate enough to see the tranches, monuments, or cemeteries connected to the Great War despite a strong desire to do so. Rubin provides a well written and insightful guide for anyone who wants to visit in person or vicariously through Rubin. The mines he explored near Chemin Des Dames revealed an untold number of carvings and graffiti from German, French, and American soldiers who left their marks during the First World War. These markings included several soldiers from Maine (where I live) including some references to Passamaquoddy culture. These were featured in a recent TV documentary that was quite popular and I highly recommend as a great supplement to the book. I was fortunate enough to see Rubin speak about this book at the Maine Historical Society recently and I was fascinated with the images of the graffiti from the mines. I can’t say enough positive things about this thoroughly enjoyable book. Despite being really busy, I read it all in about 10 days and had difficulty putting it down each time I read! One of my favorite lines from the book illustrates my thoughts on history in general, but more specifically, the way I have been thinking about World War Two for quite some time, “The Argonne is evidence that history folds in on itself again and again, and that, as I often view the Frist and Second World Wars as one conflict with a two decade cease-fire in the middle, a case could certainly be made that… if the king hadn’t stopped for pieds de cochon just steps away. No decapitated Louis, no First Republic; no First Republic, no Napoleon; no Napoleon, no rise of Prussia; no rise of Prussia, no Franco-Prussian War; no Franco-Prussian War, no First world War; no First World War, no Second World War; no Second World War , no Holocaust.†Later in the book Rubin once again makes a connection I can relate to when discussing the fighting near the Bois de Foret. His realization was that the land had been fought over for centuries by many different peoples until 1918 changed everything and there has been no fighting there since. He goes on from there to point out how the Great War is still important to this day. Throughout the book Rubin finds ways to make these connections. One big takeaway for me is how few Americans know anything about American involvement in the Great War and what a shame that is. I’m so glad, for the sake of the fallen, that he has written this book as a way to revive their memories and connect Americans to what happened in the War. The book is insightful and engaging and I truly enjoyed it! Thank you for stoking my interest in the Great War, now to I need to get back to France and see some of these sites! Anyone know of any travel programs for teachers that might fund this?
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