Stereo card view of wounded Belgian soldiers in an Antwerp hospital attended by a Red Cross nurse. The nurse attends to a severely wounded soldier whose head, face, and hands are swathed in bandages.
V18817—The Horror of War: Ghastly Glimpse of Belgian Wounded, Antwerp Hospital.
"I've been meaning to write to you again & again—but I've been so vastly bitter that I can produce nothing but gall and wormwood.The war is utter damn nonsense—a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.Of all the things in this world a government is the thing least worth fighting for."
John Dos Passos, an American ambulance driver serving with the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps, with the French army at Verdun, writing to his friend Rummy back in the States. The French offensive begun August 20, 1917 was recapturing territory lost to German forces in the 1916 siege of Verdun. Quoted in World War I and America.
World War I and America by A. Scott Berg, page 409, copyright © 2017 by Literary Classics of the United States, publisher: The Library of America, publication date: 2017
1917-08-23, 1917, August, John Dos Passos, Dos Passos, Verdun, ambulance, facial wound
