Gentlemen Volunteers (eBook)

The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

Arlen J. Hansen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
256 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-149-2 (ISBN)

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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. Hansens Gentlemen Volunteers brings to life the entire story of the menand womenwho formed the first ambulance corps, and who went on to redefine American culture. Some were to become legendsErnest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Malcolm Cowley, and Walt Disneybut 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.9.2011
• Vorwort: George Plimpton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
• Schlagworte: 1917 • 1st World War • air war • ambulances • ambulance service • american pilots • Arcade • books on ambulances • books on corps • books on cummings • books on drivers • books on evacuations • books on flyers • books on flying clubs • books on gallantries • books on genet • books on hemingway • books on hospitals • books on mascots • books on oxford • books on piatt • books on pilots • books on planes books on medic • books on serbia • books on squadrons • books on trenches • books on troops • books on volunteers • books on wright brothers • bracelen flood • Corps • Cummings • Drivers • Eddie Rickenbacker • Ernest • Europe • Evacuation • fighter pilots • flew • flyers • flying club • foreign legion • French army • french foreign • Gallantry • Genet • Gore • Hansen • Hemingway • Hospitals • Italy • jitney • John Dos Passos • lafayette escadrille • lycée • mascots • Medicine History • motorized • Neuilly • Oxford • packards • Paris • Pasteur • piatt • Pilot • pilots flying • Piper Cub • Planes • Recruiting • Red Baron • serbia • squadron • Trenches • Triage • troops • volunteered • volunteers harvard • Wounded • wright brothers • WWI history
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-149-9 / 1628721499
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-149-2 / 9781628721492