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082 0 4 _a940.4/7573
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBowerman, Guy Emerson
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Compensations of War :
_bThe Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War /
_cGuy Emerson Bowerman; ed. by Mark C. Carnes.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2012]
264 4 _c1983
300 _a1 online resource (200 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_tDiary --
_tMaps --
_tAppendix 1. Complete Roster of s.s.u. 585 from August 7,1917, to April 23, 1919 --
_tAppendix 2. Station List, Section 585 --
_tGlossary
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aIn 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers—Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley—Bowerman longed to “see the show.” He was glad to learn that the ambulance units were leaving for France right away. For seventeen months, until the armistice of November 1918, Bowerman kept an almost daily diary of the war. To read his words today is to live the war with an immediacy and vividness of detail that is astonishing. Only twenty when he enlisted, Bowerman was an idealistic, if snobbish, young man who exulted that his section was made up mostly of young “Yalies” like himself. But he expected the war to change him, and it did. In the end he writes that he and his compatriots scarcely remember a world at peace. "The old life was gone forever. . ." Guy Bowerman’s unit was attached to a French infantry division stationed near Verdun. Sent to halt the German drive to Paris in 1918, the division participated in the decisive counterattack of July and tracked the routed Germans through Belgium. Then, “unwarned,” Bowerman and his comrades were “plunged into … a life of peace.” Into this life, he writes, they walked “bewildered,” like “men fearing ambush.” This remarkable chronicle of one young man’s rite of passage is destined to become a classic in the literature of the Great War.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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653 _aWorld War I, SSU 585, Sanitation Section, Verdun, 1918.
700 1 _aCarnes, Mark C.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/710740
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292749177
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