The Harvard Section, The History of American Field Service Section 3, Volume One, 1914-1915, is the first part of a two-volume history of a group of Ivy-League, young American men that volunteered to drive ambulances for the French army in World War One. The story opens on the day after France declared war on Germany and documents the creation of the American Ambulance Hospital of Paris. From its small beginnings, this history follows a group of
American ambulance drivers who are sent to the front lines to evacuate wounded in a war that the United States was not yet involved. Drawn from hundreds of previously unpublished letters, diaries, and photographs, The Harvard Section provides a unique perspective of WWI that culminates with the death of a young man named Richard Hall, the first American ambulance driver to give his life for France during the First World War.
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