The Long Way Home Laskin Analysis

In this monograph “The Long Way Home,” written by David Laskin, he covers over the experience of immigration from 1880 to World War I and delivers the immigrants point of view on US History for that period. Laskin is a graduate from Harvard University with a degree in history and literature who later went onto Oxford College and received an MA in English in 1977. In this narrative, David Laskin writes about “how twelve immigrant soldiers who became Americans through fighting in the World War I” (Laskin, 2010, p. intro). The United States has always been a nation of immigrants. Laskin’s overview about immigration does a great job of telling the soldiers reasons for immigrating and joining the army in order to fight against their old countries. His point of view throughout the novel reconstructs from family history in order to fully understand their circumstances of their motivation to move. In “The Long Way Home”, Laskin unfolds stories of twelve soldiers who immigrated to the United States starting with their childhoods in Europe. Two soldiers specifically were Matej Kocak and Sam Drebren who “each came into their own [...] to be soldiers in the U.S. Armed Forces” (Laskin, 2010, p. 69). Both career soldiers fought in one of the bloodiest battles and later became heroes who fought beside one another. Both soldiers …show more content…
Many of them were not even citizens when the United States entered World War I. Overall, the monograph is told in an immigrant angle during World War I and showed what people have endured throughout history. Laskin's narrative voice and extensive research makes for a remarkable, thorough look at the war from many sides. The monograph appears to readers or historians who are interested in the various aspects of World War I and the millions it