Summary Of The Long Way Home By David Laskin

Immigrants represent a worthy proportion of population in the United States. The immigrants took part in the First World War when the United States entered it in 1917. It was quite subtle that one out of the five soldiers belongs to the immigrants who sacrifice themselves to serve the nation. In the book, The Long Way Home, David Laskin represents the heroic character of dozen immigrant men. These men were born in Europe who got emigrated to the United States in search of faith and liberty, and ended up fighting with American armed forces in The Great War. These twelve men, including tens of thousands of foreign-born Doughboys like them, joined the army as immigrants – but they came home from the war Americans. Many returned as American heroes.

In the Early twentieth century, America experienced immigration on a huge scale. Perhaps more significantly, the United States would come to be called home by immense waves of immigrants from what contemporary observers would sometimes call savage lands. This pejorative remark witnessed to note the fact that late nineteenth and early twentieth century immigrants did not come from the English speaking world (with the exception of the Irish) and that these immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe as well as China and Southeast Asia were somehow inferior. Widespread civil war and social incompetence, missing prospect, and religious liberty pushed these people to America’s coasts. Their dissimilar culture and customs, languages, and other ways of life would play a substantial role in how they would come to be Americanized as these customs literally reshaped American life and added to the polyglot of customs that would become early twentieth century American