The Harvard Volunteers in Europe; Personal Records of Experience in Military, Ambulance, And Hospital Service
The book The Harvard Volunteers in Europe; Personal Records of Experience in Military, Ambulance, And Hospital Service was written by author Howe, M. A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960 Here you can read free online of The Harvard Volunteers in Europe; Personal Records of Experience in Military, Ambulance, And Hospital Service book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Harvard Volunteers in Europe; Personal Records of Experience in Military, Ambulance, And Hospital Service a good or bad book?
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. July lo. ... I AM afraid I have not written for some time, but the last weeks have been strenuously busy as well as rather harrowing, and what time off I have had has been spent in dreamless sleep. Looking back on the ten days spent at Verdun, I feel that it was perfectly miraculous, our getting away with only one man badly wounded. Our run was from Verdun to Bras, over a road which was shelled intermittently every night. I have no right to describe the thing in detail, and in a way I would r...ather not anyway, as just now I am trying to forget it as much as possible. Of course it was a wonderful experience, and I would not have missed it for anything, but you can judge how lucky we were when I tell you that half the cars have holes in them from eclats, and that two or three men were grazed by shrapnel, one bullet actually lodging in Waldo Peirce's pocket-book in the most approved melodramatic manner. . . . I think the psychology of shells is rather interesting. At first, everything is so new and interesting and unbe- C.
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