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Ambulance 464 Encore Des Blesses: The Experiences of an American Volunteer with the French Army During the First World War
Ambulance 464 Encore Des Blesses: The Experiences of an American Volunteer with the French Army During the First World War | Julien H Bryan
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Experiences of a motor ambulance driver The author of this book was a Princeton student who became a member and driver of the American Ambulance Field Service-a group of young volunteers who travelled to Europe to assist the French war effort during the Great War before the United States took an active part in the conflict. His is a personal story derived from diary notes he made on active service. Although he freely admits to the reader that he volunteered to see the war and experience some excitement predictably his actual experiences of the battlefield and the suffering of French soldiers and civilians alike made a profound impression upon him. Bryan provides the reader with a clear and interesting view of the life of an American volunteer driver and his impressions of war in the trenches with the French Army on the Western Front. Available in soft cover and hard cover with dust jacket.
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This is a roller coaster of a read - put on your seat belt (which didn't exist yet), you're in for some whiplash. Bryan, later an important film documentarian of Nazi crimes and the Siege of Warsaw, is only 17 when he packs off to the French front of WW1. His diary bounces between the hijinks and energy of an invincible teenage boy and the horrifying realities he witnesses. Gallows humour and bad decisions abound, and everybody's a bit drunk.

Faranae Reminder that all belligerents of WW1 except the Americans had a daily alcohol ration, and Bryan served with the French - he got the same bottle of pinard and 5 sous a day the poilus did. The Brits got rum, and the Germans had beer. 11mo
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