Guy bowerman (17 résultats)

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Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages are clean. Book is tight. Front and back covers have slight staining. In 1917, shortly after the United State's declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army's ambulance service.

PAPERBACK. Etat : Fine. 0292739893 As New. Uncirculated, unmarked, B-stock.

Paperback or Softback. Etat : New. The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver During the Great War. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 178 pages, illustrations, maps, appendix with complete roster of S.S.U. 585 from August 7, 1917 to April 23, 1919, and a second appendix with a Station List, Section 585. Light edge-wear, bumping. Previous owner address label on half-title and rear pastedown along with a written date.…

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Card covers. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. Card covers. Slight bumping to edges. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. Very neat -- a sound and handsome copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. 200 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Etat : nrFine. 1st Edition. Illustrated card covers. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Text edges lightly speckled.

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Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. A little edge foxing, otherwise light wear, clean pages, firm binding.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In 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. …

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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. The Compensations of War | The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War | Guy Emerson Bowerman | Taschenbuch | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 1983 | University of Texas Press | EAN 9780292739895 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…