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100 1 _aFrazer, Elizabeth,
_d1877-1967
245 1 0 _aOld Glory and Verdun, and other stories
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2025-12-05
505 0 _aWard Eighty-three -- With the French wounded -- Miss Greenhorn goes a-nursing -- The children of the war zone -- A canteener in France -- Old Glory and Verdun -- Behind Château-Thierry -- The spite attack.
508 _aTom Trussel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520 _a"Old Glory and Verdun" by Elizabeth Frazer is a collection of wartime narratives and reportage written in the early 20th century. It focuses on frontline hospital life in France during World War I, seen through the eyes of an American volunteer nurse’s aide. The vignettes mix pain, bravery, and gallows humor, sketching vivid portraits of wounded French soldiers, resourceful nurses, and tireless orderlies amid relentless dressings, operations, and recovery. The opening of this collection follows the narrator’s first day in Ward Eighty-three at the American Ambulance in Neuilly, where terror of doing harm gives way to hard learning under pressure. She meets Claudius, a young soldier with an infected leg and one eye, and Justin, a seasoned orderly who quietly saves patients with skill and nerve, while the ward’s routines—painful dressings, shouted “Doucement!”, jokes, and small rebellions—reveal both agony and resilience. Brief, piercing scenes accumulate: a delirious sergeant relives a grenade charge; a comic “hen” routine lifts spirits; a boy with a gangrenous arm dies almost unnoticed; and later chapters widen to the shock of first weeks, the youth and humor of the poilus, “cafard” (black moods) broken by love and visitors, the tenderness of “copains,” and the scorn for “embusqués.” It closes this opening stretch with the long, watched dying of a man with gas infection—his wife and father arriving, a priest called, even an X-ray man taking a photo in the same room—capturing the ward’s stark blend of endurance, ordinary kindness, and absurdity. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Duffield & Company, 1918
653 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- France
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/oldgloryverdun00fraz/page/n7/mode/2up
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77406
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