There have been few attempts to bind the home- and war-front worlds. So, it is with pleasure and relief that one can now turn to Andrew J. Huebner's book as a work that successfully bridges these divides and links microhistory with larger perspectives as it sensitively conveys how the worlds of home and war intermingled for those in the United States ... Starting with the era immediately before the United States entered the First World War and continuing through its armistice, Huebner's book helps us to understand the human scope of a war that often overwhelms us by its sheer numbers, both of those mobilised and those who died ... Huebner's work ... effectively brings the individual and family stories of this war into sharp focus in a way that should engage students and scholars alike.
