Buswell, Leslie.
AMBULANCE NO. 10, PERSONAL LETTERS FROM THE FRONT.
A.L. Burt Company, by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Co, 1915, 1916., VG. Tenth Impression. 7.5x5. Spine somewhat darkened with spotting, but lettering still plainly legible. Some discoloration to back cover. Front cover clean with crisp lettering & decoration. Some foxing to frontispiece and title page, interior of b ook otherwise tight & clean. An American volunteer ambulance driver describes his experiences with the American Field Service on the Western Front in WWI, serving with the French army in the years before American entered the war. Photographs, drawings, 155 pp.
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$25.00
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Derby, Richard,
WADE IN, SANITARY! ~ THE STORY OF A DIVISION SURGEON IN
FRANCE
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Hansen, Arlen J., GENTLEMEN VOLUNTEERS.
Arcade Publishing, 1996. "The Story of
the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War, August 1914-September
1918." NEW copy. First Edition. Forward by George Plimpton. Photographs,
extensive notes & bibliography, index, 254 pages. $27.00
$27.00
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Howe, M.A. DeWolfe (editor).
THE HARVARD VOLUNTEERS IN EUROPE.
Harvard University Press, 1916., NF. Second Impression. A clean, tight
copy with very little wear. Spine very slightly sunned. Small,
discrete 1920s-style bookplate. A small amount of light pencil
annotation which could be easily erased. A series of first-hand
narratives by Harvard men who volunteered in WWI before America
entered the war. This was one of the books which helped win support
in America for the French cause. Volunteers were serving with the
French Foreign Legion, the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Field
Service, the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service, as well as with various
foreign military and medical services. Accounts by Alan Seeger, Victor
Chapman, Harvey Cushing, George Benet, Richard Norton, Waldo Pierce,
and numerous others. Contains a complete roster of Harvard volunteers
in the European war up to the time of publication. An important book.
264 pp.
$40.00
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Pottle, Frederick A.,
STRETCHERS:
THE STORY OF A HOSPITAL UNIT ON THE WESTERN FRONT.
(One of the very
finest of American WWI memoirs by a hospital orderly who tended the
wounded
Marines of Belleau Wood).
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Sheahan, Henry..
A VOLUNTEER POILU.
Houghton Mifflin, 1916., VG, 1st edition. Blue cloth with map printed
on endpapers. Minimal edgewear at inner corners; outer corners intact
but turned in slightly. Spine somewhat darkened. Spine intact, not
chipped. Some minor discoloration to cover. 4.25"x 7". Photographs.
A young American, a Harvard student, volunteers as an ambulance driver
with the American Field Service in support of the French Army in the
years before America enters the war. Well-written & keenly observant,
from a Sunday morning stroll through the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to
the desolate horror of the Verdun trenches. 218 pp.
$25.00
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Smith, Major T.J.,
MEDICAL SERVICES: CASUALTIES AND MEDICAL STATISTICS OF THE GREAT WAR.
NEW copy; Battery Press. Hardcover issued without dustjacket. 1997 reprint of original 1931 edition.
Photographs, 402 pages.
"A reprint of this very scarce British Official History of WW I in their Medical series. It is of immense value to the military historian as it is a massive compilation of statistics on casualties to British forces in every theater of the war. Numbers of losses, wounded and sick, along with numbers afflicted under each disease and cause."
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Strott, Lt George C. Hospital Corps, USN,
NAVY MEDICS WITH THE MARINES, 1917-1919. NEW Battery
Press reprint of the very scarce U.S. Navy Department 1947
edition. Originally published in 1948 as The Medical Department of the United States
Navy with the Army and Marine Corps in France in World War I, this U.S. Navy
official history covers the activities of the Navy medical unit assigned to the
4th USMC Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division in World War I. It is as much a combat
history of the Marines as a naval history.
$48.00
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Tjomsland, Anne, MD.,
BELLEVUE IN FRANCE, ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF BASE HOSPITAL NO. 1.
(Bellevue received casualties, including many Marines, from Belleau
Wood, Chateau Thierry, Soissons, St Mihiel, & the Argonne).
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