GENE FAX

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May 8, 2018 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Practicing History Without a License: How I Wrote My Book on World War I

BOLLI 60 Turner Street, Waltham

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World War I and American Jews

Beit Sasson--The Sephardic Congregation of Newton 556 Ward Street, Newton

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Gene Fax

My grandfather fought in the 313th Infantry Regiment of the 79th Division. When my brother and I were young, he would regale us with old-soldier stories. Sometime in the 1980s I tried to get his war service record, only to find that most of the personnel files from World War I were destroyed in a fire in 1973. As a substitute I read a history of his regiment, which first made me aware of the assault on Montfaucon; I learned that Company G, my grandfather’s company, had been the first to gain the top of the hill. Digging further, I discovered that little had been written about that bloody and important engagement, save for one or two pages in general histories of the AEF and a few articles in old, obscure military journals.

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