Download or read book Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer Classic Reprint written by R. A. L. and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer For military reasons, it has been judged wiser to withhold the full name of the Canadian Stretcher Bearer until the close of the war. However, it may interest his readers to know that he is an Old Country-man, although he is now in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and earlier had lived in the States. On the 31st May, 1915, he enlisted. Six weeks later, with the earliest of our letters, we find him in England, and rebelling against the unsatisfactory nature of service in what he caustically terms a Safety-First battalion. It was only a matter of time, however, before he caused himself to be transferred to hospital service, crossing to France to take a place as orderly in No. 3 Canadian General Hospital at Boulogne, where he arrived early in 1916. From that time on until the 23rd August, 1917, when he was gassed and sent to Blighty, the story has been left entirely in his own hands, to tell it as convincingly as may be. Since then, he has been, first in hospital in England, then in the First Reserve Battalion, awaiting the call back to service in the trenches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Book Bulletin written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wounded written by Emily Mayhew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number of soldiers wounded in World War I is, in itself, devastating: over 21 million military wounded, and nearly 10 million killed. On the battlefield, the injuries were shocking, unlike anything those in the medical field had ever witnessed. The bullets hit fast and hard, went deep and took bits of dirty uniform and airborne soil particles in with them. Soldier after soldier came in with the most dreaded kinds of casualty: awful, deep, ragged wounds to their heads, faces and abdomens. And yet the medical personnel faced with these unimaginable injuries adapted with amazing aptitude, thinking and reacting on their feet to save millions of lives. In Wounded, Emily Mayhew tells the history of the Western Front from a new perspective: the medical network that arose seemingly overnight to help sick and injured soldiers. These men and women pulled injured troops from the hellscape of trench, shell crater, and no man's land, transported them to the rear, and treated them for everything from foot rot to poison gas, venereal disease to traumatic amputation from exploding shells. Drawing on hundreds of letters and diary entries, Mayhew allows readers to peer over the shoulder of the stretcher bearer who jumped into a trench and tried unsuccessfully to get a tightly packed line of soldiers out of the way, only to find that they were all dead. She takes us into dugouts where rescue teams awoke to dirt thrown on their faces by scores of terrified moles, digging frantically to escape the earth-shaking shellfire. Mayhew moves her account along the route followed by wounded men, from stretcher to aid station, from jolting ambulance to crowded operating tent, from railway station to the ship home, exploring actual cases of casualties who recorded their experiences. Both comprehensive and intimate, this groundbreaking book captures an often neglected aspect of the soldier's world and a transformative moment in military and medical history.
Download or read book The Wound Dresser written by Walt Whitman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-08 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Wound Dresser: A Series of Letters, Written From the Hospitals in Washington, During the War of the Rebellion What the United States are working out and establishing needs imperatively the connivance of something subtler than ballots and legislators. The Goethean theory and lesson (if I may briefly state it so) of the exclusive sufficiency of artistic, scientific, literary equipment to the character, irrespective of any strong claims of the political ties of nation, state, or city, could have answer'd under the con ventionality and pettiness of Weimar, or the Ger many, or even Europe, of those times; but it will not do for America to-day at all. We have not only to exploit our own theory above any that has pre ceded us, but we have entirely different, and deeper rooted, and infinitely broader themes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Book Bulletin of the Chicago Public Library written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LETTERS OF LOYAL SOLDIERS CLASSIC REPRINT written by JOHN AUSTIN. STEVENS and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canteening Under Two Flags written by Doris Kellog and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Canteening Under Two Flags: Letters of Doris Kellog We have a Salvation Army troop bound for one of our Training Camps in France, loads of Y. M. C. A.'s and Red Cross men and nurses, ambulance drivers, one hundred and seventy Naval Aviators, and four women mechanics - the last being ourselves. We create much interest as being a novel and pioneer group. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Letters From a Field Hospital Classic Reprint written by Mabel Dearmer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters From a Field Hospital The crowning dishonour that we do the dead lies in our dutiful effort to remember them. Real remembrance consists not in a trick of memory, but in a power of realisation. Unless the thought of the dead be a fruitful impulse, let it go the way of tombstones and tin wreaths of immortelles - there is no virtue in it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Record written by Robert Gourlay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Record: Letters on Poor Law Reform and Emigration Mr. Gourlay presents his compliments to General Macomb. Mr. G. Received a letter from a friend in Upper Canada lately, who had been last summer at Washington, and reported that General Macomb inquired kindly after him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Diary Letters of Sergt Peyton Randolph Campbell Classic Reprint written by Peyton Randolph Campbell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Diary-Letters of Ser> Peyton Randolph Campbell I wish I could tell you where) and entered a big waiting room, from the windows of which we could see our ship. We were served breakfast on the pier, and shortly after noon were admitted, one by one, to the ship and our quarters. Well, that night we pulled out - and landed plunk into the tail end of a nor'easter that had been blow ing for three days! Everybody - except an occasional hardy one - among whom I was not - was sick. I was very sick - didn't care much what happened to me. Dur ing the night, however, the storm abated, and by the next morning, things were not so bad. All day we plowed through the ocean, out of sight of land. You may imagine our surprise, then, when the news came that instead of being in the middle of the ocean, we were off a well-known American port! A long train ride - a day and a night out of sight of land, and a lovely storm, with wave-washed decks and all that, and then back in America again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book From Dug Out and Billet written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from From Dug-Out and Billet: An Officer's Letters to His Mother Dear Little Mama, Don't stare. It isn't such an odd beginning when the reasons given. The other day in billets a Frenchwoman showed me a letter oh, - the pride of her! - from her soldier son. Being in French, and provencale at that, I couldn't get the hang of much of it, but it began with, "Cherepetite Maman." Ever since, it has struck me that Dear Mother is much too staid a way to address you. If that big baby of a man, who's doing in Boches with sanguinary enjoyment down Alsace way, can use an affectionate diminutive to his big Maman, surely I can do the same. She, Maman marchande de tabac in the North, is the largest woman I have ever seen. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Letters to Helen written by Keith Henderson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters to Helen: Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front But when the pictures were brought back from France it was suggested that they should be reproduced, and a book evolved. Then a certain person (who shall be nameless) conceived the dastardly idea of exposing private correspondence to the public eye. He proved wilful in the matter, and this book came into the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book L of C Lines of Communication written by James E. Agate and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from L. Of C. (Lines of Communication): Being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps However we may be minded to take our endings it is surely a mistake to take the beginnings of soldiering too seriously, to blaze away at Patriotism to the exclusion of all the other fine, trivial, muddlesome motives that may have gone to the joining up. There was camaraderie, wasn't there, and the sense of fairness P There was duty, love of adventure, the itch to teach the braggart a lesson, the conviction that it wouldn't do to be out of it. Then the desire to prove manhood, and the mere fling of it all. For myself I am not sure that the determining factor was not the play ing of national airs fin Trafalgar Square by the band of the Irish Guards on a sunny morning in June. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Letters to the Bridgeport Comfort Club From the Foreign Chapter in France Classic Reprint written by Leslie R. Barlow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Letters to the Bridgeport Comfort Club From the Foreign Chapter in France Dear Mothers: - Now that we have our Foreign Chapter of our Comfort Club, may we just review a few of the more interesting things that have taken place since we were promenading down Main Street and saw those catchy signs in the window about "Free Trips to Berlin," etc., and advising us to sign up with the First Connecticut Ambulance Company. So being fired with patriotism and yearning for adventure, also thinking that our best girls would like us all the more if we could write them a line from Berlin, we hike up to the Armory and sign up with "The Uncle Sam and Lieut. John T. Powers Company, Inc." We stood trembling while beaucoup doctors glared at our bodies like Al Goulden does at a fellow when he stalls his motor on the corner of Main and Fairfield. Well, then we drilled two or three nights a week at the Armory on squads east, squads west, right upper berth, prepare to load and all that important? stuff. Sergeants were drilling us as they read it from the book, some of us had uniforms and some didn't, those that did automatically becoming fixtures about town. Then someone said that we were to get a dollar for each regular drill night, but I guess we are like Heinie, we have something coming to us, but anyway we don't need it as our Mas just sent us one hundred real American dollars. Next our orders came that we should report at the Armory, ready to move at a minute's notice. Well, we were there, suit cases, hand bags, and all, every one excited, but we had a chance to cool off for we did not leave for three days, then down to dear old Niantic we go, more squads east and squads west, hung around a month or two, each day trying to follow Lieut. Sprague or Lieut. Nagle out in the country for a few miles with packs on our backs and saying it was a tough war. And to think we had a big shower bath, a canteen and Social Center that was a Red Cross and Salvation Hut all in one, but we didn't know it then. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The United States Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 2202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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