Highly Anticipated title

In the highly anticipated category, I chose Last of the Doughboys: the Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten War, by Richard Rubin.  In 2003, the author began to track down veterans of the Great War, by then all over 100 years old, managing to find dozens.  Traveling all over the country, he interviewed those individuals, and their resulting stories make up this book.  Rubin has done a great service, not only for that generation, but for all of us who are only too likely to overlook or forget their contribution.  Informative, emotional, heartbreaking, and above all respectful of the interviewees,  these characteristics make a great book, and not only for those who have an interest in history.  That being said, I plan to recommend this title to my husband, a military history buff.  I also include The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War by Peter Hart as a similar read, in that the focal point is the war itself.