1919 Tour de France - Revisited

World War I Podcast by MacArthur Memorial

Jul 21, 202651:37Society & Culture

On Monday, July 13, 2026, the MacArthur Memorial hosted a virtual event featuring Adin Dobkin, author of Sprinting Through No Man’s Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France. Just months after the...

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