Author: James Robert Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volunteer workers in hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
With the American Ambulance in France
Author: James Robert Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volunteer workers in hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Volunteer workers in hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Gentlemen Volunteers
Author: Arlen J. Hansen
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore; manners amid madness. Arlen J. Hansen’s Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men—and women—who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legends—Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disney—but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home. The war in France beckoned them, promising glory, romance, and escape. Between 1914 and 1917 (when the United States officially entered the war), they volunteered by the thousands, abandoning college campuses and prep schools across the nation and leaving behind an America determined not to be drawn into a “European war.” What the volunteers found in France was carnage on an unprecedented scale. Here is a spellbinding account of a remarkable time; the legacy of the ambulance drivers of WWI endures to this day.
Publisher: Skyhorse
ISBN: 1628721499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
They left Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, and Stanford to drive ambulances on the French front, and on the killing fields of World War I they learned that war was no place for gentlemen. The tale of the American volunteer ambulance drivers of the First World War is one of gallantry amid gore; manners amid madness. Arlen J. Hansen’s Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the men—and women—who formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legends—Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disney—but all were part of a generation seeking something greater and grander than what they could find at home. The war in France beckoned them, promising glory, romance, and escape. Between 1914 and 1917 (when the United States officially entered the war), they volunteered by the thousands, abandoning college campuses and prep schools across the nation and leaving behind an America determined not to be drawn into a “European war.” What the volunteers found in France was carnage on an unprecedented scale. Here is a spellbinding account of a remarkable time; the legacy of the ambulance drivers of WWI endures to this day.
With the American Ambulance Field Service in France
Author: Leslie Buswell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Fighting the Great War
Author: Michael S. NEIBERG
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674041399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Michael Neiberg offers a concise history based on the latest research and insights into the soldiers, commanders, battles, and legacies of the Great War.
American Ambulance
Author: Walter Mp Mccall
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583880814
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walt McCall follows up his successful Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979 Photo Archive with a new and expanded title that fills in a heretofore missing chapter in American emergency vehicle history. This book chronicles in words and photos the evolution of the emergency ambulance in America over the past 100 years. From the slow jouncing horse-drawn vehicles in use at the turn of the last century to the fleet electronics-laden advanced life support units on the streets and highways of today - you'll find it all here. A fascinating story that is long overdue. The book is divided into chapters illustrating ambulances by decade. Each chapter begins with 2-4 pages of text describing major innovations and improvements introduced during the decade.
Publisher: Enthusiast Books
ISBN: 9781583880814
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Walt McCall follows up his successful Classic American Ambulances 1900-1979 Photo Archive with a new and expanded title that fills in a heretofore missing chapter in American emergency vehicle history. This book chronicles in words and photos the evolution of the emergency ambulance in America over the past 100 years. From the slow jouncing horse-drawn vehicles in use at the turn of the last century to the fleet electronics-laden advanced life support units on the streets and highways of today - you'll find it all here. A fascinating story that is long overdue. The book is divided into chapters illustrating ambulances by decade. Each chapter begins with 2-4 pages of text describing major innovations and improvements introduced during the decade.
With the American ambulance in France
Author: James Robert Judd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
With the American Ambulance Field Service in France
Author: Leslie Buswell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transport of sick and wounded
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transport of sick and wounded
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917
Author: James William Davenport Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The Ambulance Drivers
Author: James McGrath Morris
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306823845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306823845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it; they had to give voice to what they felt about war and life. Their friendship and collaboration developed through the peace of the 1920s and 1930s, as Hemingway's novels soared to success while Dos Passos penned the greatest antiwar novel of his generation, Three Soldiers. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a bitter public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. Rich in evocative detail -- from Paris cafes to the Austrian Alps, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West -- The Ambulance Drivers is a biography of a turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers, and an illustration of how war both inspires and destroys, unites and divides.
Diary of a WWI Pilot
Author: Harvey Conover
Publisher: Conover-Patterson Publishers
ISBN: 9780965307130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher: Conover-Patterson Publishers
ISBN: 9780965307130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description