The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War Social History by Andy Rawson

by Andy Rawson

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The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War Social History by Andy RawsonDescription by James McGrath Morris Hardcover Eager to find his way in life and words, John Dos Passos first witnessed the horror of trench warfare in France as a volunteer ambulance driver retrieving the dead and seriously wounded from the front line. Later in the war, he briefly met another young writer, Ernest Hemingway, who was just arriving for his service in the ambulance corps. When the war was over, both men knew they had to write about it;