They just fought the War to End All Wars in France. Now they return home to a different kind of battle . . . one more fierce than they could imagine. From every conceivable culture, men joined together in foxholes to fight World War I?the Great War that all hoped would bring the world together in peace, for all time. Jews and Irish, blacks and whites became brothers, tied by the common bonds of life, heroism, and death. When the Armistice is declared, the soldiers make their way back to America. But it is no longer the place of their dreams. Undercurrents of racial, religious, and cultural intolerance threaten the very foundations of the nation.