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Maine Author Richard Rubin
August 23, 2017, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
FreeRichard Rubin introduced readers to a forgotten generation of Americans: the men and women who fought and won the First World War. Interviewing the war’s last survivors face-to-face, he knew well the importance of being present if you want to get the real story.
He discovered that while most Americans regard that war as dead and gone, to the French, who still live among its ruins and memories, it remains very much alive. For months he followed the trail of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front, finding trenches, tunnels, bunkers, century-old graffiti and ubiquitous artifacts. But he also found an abiding fondness for America and Americans, and a colorful corps of local after-hours historians and archeologists who tirelessly explore these sites and preserve the memories they embody while patiently waiting for Americans to return and reclaim their own history and heritage.
Books will be available for sale courtesy of Barnes and Noble Booksellers and light refreshments will be served. For more information, call (207) 495-3508.