WW I American: Auxiliary Field Service Ambulance driver "LETTERS FROM VERDUN"

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Book Title: Letters From Verdun

Narrative Type: Nonfiction

Item Length: 10.3in.

Publisher: Case Mate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC

Intended Audience: Adults

Modified Item: No

Subject: Military & War

Vintage: No

Publication Year: 2009

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Era: 1910s

Item Height: 0.9in.

Author: Avery Royce Wolf

Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated

Genre: Biographies & True Stories, History, Military, Biography & Autobiography

Topic: American History, Combat, Foreign Militaries, Medical Services, Memoir, Military History, True Military Stories, World War I, Military / WORLD War I

Subjects: History & Military

Item Width: 8.1in.

Number of Pages: 226 Pages