Research Catalog

Title

Friends of France : the Field Service of the American Ambulance described by its members.

Publication

Boston, New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.

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Additional Authors

Andrew, A. Piatt (Abram Piatt), 1873-1936

Description

xvii, [1] p., 1 ℓ., 294, [1] p., 1 ℓ. incl. illus., col. pl., ports. front., plates.; 21 cm.

Subject

• 1914-1918
• Ambulances > history
• American Field Service
• American Field Service
• Military Personnel
• Transportation of Patients
• World War I
• World War, 1914-1918 > Personal narratives, American

Genre/Form

Personal narratives – American

Note

• Introd. signed: A. Piatt Andrew, inspector of the Field Service.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The organization of the Service / Stephen Galatti -- At the back of the Front: Dunkirk and Ypres / Henry Sydnor Harrison -- The Section in Alsace Reconquise / Preston Lockwood -- Last days in Alsace / Everett Jackson -- The Section in Lorraine / James R. McConnell ; With an introduction by Theodore Roosevelt -- An American ambulance in the Verdun attack / Frank Hoyt Gailor -- One of the Sections at Verdun / Henry Sheahan -- The Section in Flanders / Joshua G. B. Campbell -- the beginnings of a new Section / George Rockwell -- Un blesse a Montauville / Emery Pottle -- Christmas Eve, 1915 / Waldo Peirce -- The Inspector's Letter Box: Our ambulances ; How the cars reach Paris ; En route for the front ; First impression ; The daily programme ; Handling the wounded ; The wounded ; Night duty ; Fitting into the life : Paysages de guerre ; Soldier life ; July 22 at Pont-a-Mousson ; Incidents of a driver's life ; Three Croix de Guerre ; From day to day ; From another diary ; Further pages ; A night trip ; An attack ; Poilu hardships ; Winter in Alsace ; Weeks of quiet ; Night ; Morning ; Stray thoughts ; A gallant blesse ; Perils of a blizzard ; Poignant impressions ; In the hospital ; New quarters ; The poetry of war ; Champagne, 1914-1915 -- Four letters from Verdun -- Tributes and citations -- Members of the Field Service.

LCCN

^^^16016725^

OCLC

7138210

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library