Hemingway at Eighteen by Paul Steve; Hendrickson Paul;

Author:Paul, Steve; Hendrickson, Paul;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2017-04-09T04:00:00+00:00

In February 1918, Ted Brumback produced a long narrative based on his ambulance corps stint in France in 1917. Shortly thereafter he and Hemingway applied to join the Red Cross to serve in Italy. Kansas City Star

Tom Allen, a “clean cut young American of about 20, with all the boy’s feverish activity and thirst for adventure,” returns to the village to pick up another vehicle. Brumback inspects the wreckage. The bombing left holes three feet wide and two feet deep in the streets. The deserted town suffers more collapsed roofs, and the smoke spiraling upward fills Brumback “with a sense of awe.” After Allen returns with another vehicle and begins driving into the woods, he tells Brumback, “I have a hunch we’re going to see a little fun tonight.”

The drive through the woods is uneventful, and Brumback welcomes the moonlight and the quiet. The first French dressing station they encounter—a “poste de secours,” Brumback informs his readers—is a complex of logs and sandbags. They stop but are sent to another outpost to pick up four wounded soldiers. A French officer greets them: “Vous etre en retard (you are late).” A surgeon warns that one of the wounded is in very serious shape.

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