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Gentlemen Volunteers : The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War by Arlen J. Hansen (2011, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

ISBN-101611450993

ISBN-139781611450996

eBay Product ID (ePID)126978328

Product Key Features

Book TitleGentlemen Volunteers : the Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicEurope / Germany, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Military / World War I, Automotive / General

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreTransportation, History

AuthorArlen J. Hansen

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight12.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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ReviewsAt long last the experience of the young Americans who went to Europe as volunteers in World War One has been captured in one book.

SynopsisThey 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.