THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD
STRETCHERS:
THE STORY OF A HOSPITAL UNIT ON THE WESTERN FRONT
Frederick A. Pottle
Yale University Press, 1929. VG/VG-. Scarce dust jacket, somewhat chipped & frayed, but all
present. 1st Edition. White lettering on spine & cover worn off in
places, though most remains. Spine slightly sunned. Minimal wear to covers.
A tight clean copy. Interior FINE. Photographs (including one of wounded
Marines on the lawn at Juilly). 366 pp. The author (the reknowned Boswell
scholar in later life), was a ward orderly with Evacuation Hospital No
8, which was stationed near the fighting at Belleau Wood, and later near
St Mihiel and the Argonne. A large percentage of the casualties of the
ward were US Marines. Among the many interesting descriptions in Pottle’s
articulate account are seven pages (156-65) devoted to one of the patients,
Herbert Hummelsheim, a member of 15th Company, 6th Machine Gun Battalion,
who was brought in during the last of the fighting at Belleau Wood, and
who died on July 14. Out of Print.
$60
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