The Ambulance Drivers: Hemingway, DOS Passos, and a Friendship Made and Lost in War

by James McGrath Morris

Book Overview

After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306823837
• ISBN13: 9780306823831
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"