Ambulancing on the French Front (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Ambulance at Verdun is a frontline memoir of American volunteers, medical tents, and night evacuations on the French front.

This account follows a volunteer ambulance worker who joins the Red Cross and receives a front-row view of life near Verdun, including rescues, amputations, and the human cost of war. Told with immediacy and humility, the book tracks the author from New York to the trenches, through storms of artillery, and finally homeward across multiple stops in Europe.

• A personal, ground-level look at ambulance duty: delivering the maimed and dying, and moving patients to places of care behind the lines.
• The arc of a volunteer’s journey: from initial decision and shipboard camaraderie to Paris headquarters, lengthy paperwork, and the roller-coaster ride of wartime duty.
• Vivid, uncompromising scenes from occupied villages and front-line hospitals, including encounters with enemy violence and the moral challenges it brings.
• The long road home: a voyage via London, air raids, and mine-laden seas, ending with a return to American shores.

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