First published 2018
The year 2017 marks a century since America entered the Great War, and the voices that went unheard are finally speaking. From the muddy horror of European trenches to the anxious waiting of the home front, ordinary Americans confront a war that will reshape everything they know. Soldiers write letters they hope will reach home. Families ration food and scan casualty lists in daily newspapers. Workers in munitions factories labor through endless shifts. These people carried the full weight of a conflict that historians often minimize, yet their involvement proved decisive in bringing Germany to surrender. Their relatives live among us today, carrying fragments of stories that were never fully told. Now their experiences breathe again through voices that demand to be remembered. This is the complete story of how America's entry into World War One touched every life, from the front lines to the factory floor, revealing the total sacrifice that ordinary people made for a victory they might not live to see.
Genres: historical-fiction, 20th-century, american, 21st-century, world-war-i, american-history
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, untold-stories
Setting: Europe, United States
Period: 1917, 2017
376 pages · Hardcover · Lyons Press