Archer, Gregory.

Private Heller and the Bantam Boys. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (321 pages)

Intro -- _GoBack -- Contents -- Prologue: The Guns of June -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Providence -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix -- Index -- About the Author.

In time for the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the First World War, Private Heller and the Bantam Boys--based on Heller's long-hidden diary--tells the tale of a group of privileged yet naïve Princeton University students and their big, brawny Midwestern farm boy interloper, Ralph Heller. To them, war is a grand adventure not to be missed, and they enlist as medics and ambulance drivers (think Hemingway and dos Passos) to make sure they can get to France before the war ends. These college boys go about their training filled with idealism and bravado and, despite constant marching and drilling, absolutely no preparation for what they're about to face.

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Heller, Ralph H.,-1892-1951.
United States.-Army.-Ambulance Corps-Biography.
United States.-Army-Medical personnel-Biography.
World War, 1914-1918-Medical care-France.


Electronic books.

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