Ebook: Gentleman Volunteers: the Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Three Beginnings; 1. The Harjes Formation; 2. Richard Norton and the American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps; 3. A. Piatt Andrew and the American Ambulance Field Service; Part II: Works and Days; 4. Under Fire; 5. En Repos; 6. The Cars; Part III: The End of Something; 7. Politics, Motives, and Impressions; 8. Some Female Drivers and Other Noteworthy Volunteers; 9. Militarizing the Gentlemen Volunteers; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index.;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 Wa.