19th Century Roots

 World War I:

     General
     American volunteers
     Volunteer drivers
     American Ambulance of Paris
     The Field Service
     Drivers, by unit
     Fellow Ambulance services
     Lafayette Flying Corps
     

 AFS French Fellowships

 World War II:

      General
      France, 1939-40
      With the British Army

 High School Exchanges

      Prep school origins
      Growth
      Context
      The experience
      The new field
      Field theory

In Memoriam

19th Century Roots

Florence Nightingale in Crimea and beyond

Cecil Woodham-Smith. Florence Nightingale. New York: MacGraw Hill, 1951.
Raymond Herbert. Florence Nightingale: Saint, Reformer or Rebel?. Malabar, FL: Krieger, 1981.
Edward Hamley. The War in the Crimea. 1900. [Chapter 8.]

The U.S. Sanitary Commission in the American Civil War

Cyclone in Calico: The Story of MaryAnn Bickerdyke. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1952. [excerpts]
Mary A. Livermore. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience. Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1888.
William Q. Maxwell. Lincoln's Fifth Wheel. The Political History of the United States Sanitary Commission. New York: Longmans, Green, 1956.

Dr. Evans and his American Ambulance of the Franco-German War of 1870-1871

Gerald Carson. The Dentist and the Empress. The Adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in Gas-Lit Paris. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1983.
Alan Albright. "Thomas W. Evans: A Philadelphian "Yankee" at the Court of Napoleon III." Blérancourt Exhibition Catalog, 1993.
Thomas W. Evans. Les Institutions sanitaires pendant le Conflit Austro-prusso-italien, Paris: Masson, 1867.
---------. Voitures et Tentes d'Ambulance, Paris: Paul Dupont, 1867.
---------. Report on Instruments and Apparatus of Medicine, Surgery and Hygiene, Paris Universal Exposition, 1867. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868.
---------. Commission Sanitaire des Etats-Unis, Paris: Dentu, 1867.
---------. History of the American Ambulance Established in Paris during the Siege of 1870-71, London: Low, Low and Searle, 1873.
---------. The Second French Empire, New York: Appleton, 1905.
The Citizen's Association. A Typical American. Incidents in the Life of Dr. John Swinburne. Albany: The Citizen's Office, 1885.
Louis Judson Swinburne. Paris Sketches. Albany: Joel Munsell, 1875.
Ralph Keeler. Memoirs of the American Ambulance Corps in the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871. Lippincott's Magazine, 1873.
Charles E. Ryan. With an Ambulance during the Franco-German War. New York: Scribners, 1896.

Henry Dunant and the Red Cross movement

Henri Dunant. A Memory of Solferino. Washington, DC: American National Red Cross, 1959 (1862)
Caroline Moorehead. Dunant's Dream. War, Switzerland and the History of the Red Cross. New York: Carrol and Graf. 1998. [chapters 1-10]
Mabel Boardman. Under the Red Cross Flag at Home and Abroad. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1915 .
William Howard Taft, Chief Editor. Service with Fighting Men. Association Press, New York, 1922. [excerpts]

The American Colony of Paris

Véronique Wiesinger, 1853-1947, The Americans of the Legion of Honor. Blérancourt, 1993.
Joseph Cochran. Friendly Adventurers. A Chronicle of the American Church of Paris, 1857-1931. Paris: Brentano's, 1931.


World War I

General

Hanson W. Baldwin, World War I: An Outline History. New York: Harper & Row, 1962.
Henry W. Ruoff. Book of the War. A Concise View of its Causes, etc. Standard Publication Co, 1918.
Leonard P. Ayres. The War with Germany, A Statistical Summary. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1919.
Albert G. Love. War Casualties. Army Medical Bulletin No. 24. 1931.
Yves-Henri Nouailhat. France-Etats-Unis, Aoüt 1914-Avril 1917. Paris: Sorbonne. 1979
John S. Haller, Jr. From Farmcarts to Fords. A History of the Military Ambulance, 1790-1925 Carbondale: South Illinois University Press, 1992.

Guide Michelin. La Bataille de la Marne (1914) I: L'Ourcq.
Guides Michelin. La deuxième bataille de la Marne. 1919.
Owen Johnson. Stover at Yale. Toronto: Copp Clark. 1911.
Charles F. Thwing. The American Colleges and Universities in the Great War. 1914-1919. New York: Macmillan. 1920.
Charles I. Barnard. Paris War Days. Diary of an American., 1914.
Elizabeth Dryden. Paris in Herrick Days. Paris: Dorbon, 1915.
Edith Wharton. Fighting France, 1915.
G. Ward Price. The Story of the Salonica Army. New York: Edward J. Clode, 1918.
Arthur H. Gleason. Our Part in the Great War. New York: Stokes, 1917.
C. Leroy Baldridge. I was There. With the Yanks on the Western Front. New York: Putnam's Sons, 1919.
Hanford MacNider. The A.E.F. of a Conscientious Subaltern. Illustrations by C. Leroy Baldridge. Mason City, Iowa: Klipto. Reprinted from American Legion Weekly, 1922-23.
Herbert Ward. Mr. Poilu. Notes and Sketches with the Fighting French. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.
Ward Muir. Observations of an Orderly. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. 1917.
Mildred Aldrich. A Hilltop on the Marne. 1914.
Edward Spears. Two Men who Saved France: Pétain and de Gaulle. New York: Stein and Day, 1966.
Arthur Ponsonby. Falsehood in War-Time. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929.
Robert Lacey. "Chapter Six: Model T" in Ford, The Men and the Machine. Ballentine: New York, 1986 .
Dr. Franklin H. Martin, Managing Editor. Digest of the Proceedings of the Council of National Defense during the World War,.... 73d Congress, Second Session Senate. Document No. 193.
André Tardieu. The Truth about the Treaty. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill 1921.
André Tardieu. France and America. Some Experiences in Coöperation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1935.
Some posters from WWI.
Some posters from WWI.
Sheet music covers from WWI.
Child's book on the war, cerca 1917. No identifying information.

 

American volunteers

Personalities

Col. T. Bentley Mott. Myron Herrick. Friend of France. An Autobiographical Biography. Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929.
James Brown Scott. Robert Bacon, Life and Letters. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1923.
Harvard Club of New York. Homage to Robert Bacon, . New York, 1919.
Harvey Cushing. From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918. Boston: Little, Brown, 1936.
George W. Crile. Autobiography. New York, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1947. [chapters 23-38]
Véronique Wiesinger, 1853-1947, The Americans of the Legion of Honor. Blérancourt, 1993.
Letters and Diary of Alan Seeger. New York. Charles Scribners Sons, 1918.
Poems by Alan Seeger. With and Introduction by William Archer. New York. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1916.
Robert W. Service. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man. New York. Barse & Hopkins, 1916.
Jeannette Grace Watson. Our Sentry Go. Chicago. Seymour, 1924.
Samuel N. Watson. Those Paris Years. With an Introduction by William Archer. New York. Revell, 1936.

Organizations

Edwin W. Morse. America in the War. The Vanguard of American Volunteers in the Fighting Lines and in Humanitarian Service, August, 1914 --April, 1917. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919.
M.A. deWolfe, ed. The Harvard Volunteers in Europe. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916.
Percy Mitchell. The American Relief Clearing House. Its Work in the Great War. Paris: Herbert Clarke, 1922.
George I. Gay. Public Relations of the Commission for Relief in Belgium. Documents. Commission for Relief in Belgium, with the collaboration of H.H. Fisher, Stanford University. In two volumes. Stanford: University Press, 1929.
Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill. The Romance of the Salvation Army. New York: Lippincott 1919.
Henry P. Davison. The American Red Cross in the Great War. New York: Macmillan 1920.
The Work of the American Red Cross during the War. A Statement of Finances and Accomplishments for the Period July 1, 1917 to February 28, 1919. Washington: American Red Cross, 1919.

Women

Ida Clyde Clarke. American Women and the World War. New York: Appelton, 1918.
Dorothy and Carl J. Schneider. Into the Breach. American Women Overseas in World War I. New York: Viking, 1991.
Alfred Allan Lewis. Ladies and Not-So-Gentle Women. New York: Penguin, 2000.
Virginia Scharff. Taking the Wheel. Women and the Coming of the Motor Age. New York: The Free Press, 1991.

Mary Breckinridge. Wide Neighborhoods. [excerpts]
Anonymous. Mademoiselle Miss. Boston: Butterfield, 1914.
Anonymous. My Beloved Poilus. St. John, N.B.: Barnes, 1917.
Anonymous. A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital. New York: MacMillan, 1918.
An American V.A.D. [Katharine Foote] Two Hospitals. . Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919.
Stephen Hooper. The Story of Marion McCune Rice. An ongoing project.
Violetta Thurston. Field Hospital and Flying Column, New York: Putnam's, 1915.
Kathleen Burke. The White Road to Verdun, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.
Ellen N. LaMotte. The Backwash of War, New York: Putnam, 1916.
Olga Bing. Gestes d'infirmières. Croquis 1916-1917, 1917.
Mary Smith Churchill. You Who Can Help. Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1918.
Ruth Gaines. A Village in Picardy. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1918.
------. Helping France. The Red Cross in the Devastated Area. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1919.
------. The Ladies of Grécourt. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1920.
Smith College War Service, 1914-1918, Archival holdings.
Louise Elliott Dalby. "An Irrepressible Crew" The Smith College Relief Unit, Northhampton: Smith College. 1968
Esther Pohl Lovejoy. Certain Samaritans. MacMillan Company, New York, 1927.
June Richardson Lucas. The Children of France and the Red Cross. New York: Frederick Stokes, 1918.
Florence Converse. "Wellesley College. A Chronicle of the Years 1875-1938. Hathaway House Bookshop: Wellesley, Mass., 1939.
Elizabeth Marbury. My Crystal Ball. Reminiscences. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1932.

 

Volunteer drivers

James T. Lapsley III. Gentlemen Volunteers. American Ambulance Drivers in the First World War. (Master's thesis at UC Santa Cruz, 1971).
Arlen Hansen. Gentleman Volunteers. The Story of the American Ambulance Drivers in the Great War. New York: Arcade, 1996.

 

The American Ambulance of Paris

Nicole Fouché. Le mouvement perpétuel: Histoire de l'Hôpital Américain de Paris, des origines à nos jours. Toulouse: Erès, 1991.
Abbé Félix Klein. The Diary of a French Chaplain. Chicago: McClurg, 1915.
Marie Van Vorst. War Letters of an American Woman. London: John Lane, 1916.
James R. Judd. With the American Ambulance in France. Honolulu, 1919.
Edmund L. Gros. The Transportation of the Wounded. Boston, 1915.
"War Work. Harvard Men in Hospital Work." Harvard Graduates' Magazine, September 1915.
Eric Fisher Wood. Notebook of an Attaché, Seven Months in the War Zone. New York: Century, 1915.
Valentine L. Oldshue. The American Ambulance Paris Section Reprint of an article in the Pittsburg Gazette-Times, cerca 1916, New York:
American Committee. Report of Ambulance Committee of 1915. New York, 1915.
Archival Documents Concerning the American Ambulance of Paris, August 1914-April 1915.

 

The Field Service

Roster of American Field Service Volunteers, 1914-1917.
Museum of Franco-American Cooperation at Blérancourt
"Our Boys in the European War" (QuickTime movie), AFS New York, 1916.

A. Piatt Andrew, Henry D. Sleeper, founders

A "Biographical Sketch," taken from the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, and modified by Andrew's sister, Helen Patch.
Robert Craig West. Banking Reform and the Federal Reserve, 1863-1923. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1977.
Joseph E. Garland. Boston's Gold Coast. The North Shore, 1890-1929. Boston: Little Brown. 1981. excerpts.
A. Piatt Andrew. Letters Written Home from France in the First Half of 1915. Privately printed, 1915.
A "Seventy-fifth Congress. Memorial Services for Abram Piatt Andrew, Late a Representative from Massachusetts, Washington, 1938.
Louise Hall Tharp. Mrs. Jack. A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner. Boston: Little Brown. 1965.
E. Parker Hayden Jr. and Andrew Gray, ed. Beauport Chronicle. The Intimate Letters of Henry Davis Sleeper to Abram Piatt Andrew, Jr., 1906-1915.. Boston: Society for Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1991
Samuel Chamberlain and Paul Hollister. Beauport at Gloucester. The Most Fascinating House in America. New York: Hastings. 1951

Organizational history and documents

J. Paulding Brown. "The First Months of the American Ambulance (September 1914 to May 1915)," in George Rock History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York, 1956.
Friends of France. The Field Service of the American Ambulance described by its members. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1916.
A. Piatt Andrew. "For Love of France" in Outlook Magazine. Dec. 27, 1916.
History of the American Field Service in France. "Friends of France". 1914-1917. Told by its Members with Illustrations. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1920.
James W.D. Seymour. Memorial Volume of the American Field Service in France. "Friends of France". 1914-1917. Boston: American Field Service, 1921.
American Field Service Fund. Interim Reports Regarding the Accounts and the Administration of the Fund from Its Inception, September 18, 1915 to September 18, 1917.
The American Field Service Bulletins. Published at 21, rue Raynouard, Paris, 1917-1919.
Larry D. Geller. The American Field Service Archives of World War I, 1914-1917. New York: AFS Archives, 1989.

Other accounts and reports

Dorothy Canfield Fisher. "Young Americans and Old France. Notes from a French Village in the War Zone". Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume number CXXXVI, No. 814, circa 1917.
Will Irwin. The Latin at War. London: Constable, 1917.
Paul Heuzé. La voie sacré-- le Service automobile à Verdun, (Février-Août 1916). Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, n.d.
Andrew Gray. The American Field Service. American Heritage, 1974.
Trustees of Williams Collage. Williams College in the World War. 1926. [excerpts]
Albert E. Benson. St. Marks in the War Against Germany. 1920. [excerpts]
Benjamin P. Kurtz. Charles Mills Gayley. University of California Press, 1943.

Poetry

Lansing Warren and Robert A. Donaldson. En Repos and Elsewhere. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
Robert A. Donaldson. Turmoil. Verses Written in France, 1917-1919. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
William Cary Sanger, Jr. With the Armies of France. New York: Knickerbocker, 1918.

 

Drivers, by unit

SSU1

William Yorke Stevenson. At the Front in a Flivver. Houghton Mifflin, 1917.
------. From "Poilu" to "Yank". Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
Philip Sidney Rice. An Ambulance Driver in France. Wilkes-Barre, Pa, 1918.
Maclyn P. Burg and Thomas J. Pressly, ed. The Great War at Home and Abroad: The World War I Diaries and Letters of W. Stull Holt. Manhattan, Ks: Sunflower Univ. Press,1999.

SSU2

Leslie Buswell. With the American Ambulance Field Service in France. Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front. Printed only for private distribution, January 1916.
------. Ambulance No. 10. Personal Letters of a Driver at the Front. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916.
James R. McConnell. "With the American Ambulance in France" in Outlook Magazine. Sept 15, 1915.
Amos N. Wilder. Armageddon Revisited. A World War I Journal. New Haven: Yale, 1994.

SSU3

Robert W. Imbrie. Behind the Wheel of a War Ambulance. New York. Robet McBride, 1918.
Henry Beston Sheehan. A Volunteer Poilu. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916.
Cornelius Winant. A Soldier's Manuscript. Privately printed, 1929.
"Richard Nelville Hall, Killed in Alsace, Christmas Morning, 1915" in The Michigan Alumnus of January, 1916.
Kenneth C. Cramer. "Dick Hall and his Friends. Notes from the Special Collections at Darmouth" [extract from website].

SSU4

"Memorial to Roger T. Twitchell, Sr." [extract from website]

SSU8

Diary of Section VIII. American Ambulance Field Service. Printed only for private distribution. 1917.
William Seabrook. No Hiding Place. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1942. Chapters 10 and 11.
Randolph Rogers. Pour le Droit. Ann Arbor: George Warh, 1919.

SSU12

Julien H. Bryan. "Ambulance 464". New York. MacMillan, 1918.

SSU13

Houston Woodward. A Year for France. New Haven. Yale Publishing Association, 1918.

SSU14

Clara E. Kimber. The Story of the First Flag. San Francisco: Friends of France, 1920.
Nancy Nichols, ed. Letters Home From the Lafayette Flying Corps. San Francisco: J.D. Huff, 1993.

SSU15

Jerome Preston. Diary of Jerome Preston, 1917-1918. An Innocent Abroad.. Privately edited and printed by the author, circa 1969.

SSU18

[Ernest R. Schoen], Diary of S.S.U. 18, privately printed, 1917.
G. Ripley Cutler. Of Battles Long Ago. Hicksville, NY: Exposition, 1979.

SSU19

Diary of S.S.U. 19. American Field Service. (pamphlet, no date).

SSU31

Philip Dana Orcutt. The White Road of Mystery. New York and London. John Lane, 1918.

SSU33

Julian Green. The Green Paradise. Autobiography, vol I (1900-1916). New York: Marion Boyars, 1993.
 ------. The War at Sixteen. Autobiography, vol II (1916-1920). New York: Marion Boyars, 1993.

SSU65

"Somewhere in France." Personal Letters of Reginald Nöel Sullivan, SSU 65 of the American Ambulance Field Service. 1917.

SSU66

George C. Brown, ed. "The Wartime Letters of William Gorham Rice, Jr.", (part 1) Wisconsin Magazine of History. vol. 64, No. 4, Summer 1981, (part 2) Wisconsin Magazine of History. vol. 65, No. 1, Autumn 1981, (part 3) vol. 65, No. 2, Winter 1981-82.,

SSU70

Lansing Warren. Ambulancier. Unpublished manuscript, 1978.

SSU71

Edward Weeks. "What the French Taught Us"In Friendly Candor. Boston: Atlantic Monthly, 1946.
--------. My Green Age. Boston: Little Brown, 1973.
Miller M. Keplinger. Diaries of Samuel Miller Keplinger, Jr., Ambulance Driver, American Field Service, July 1917-March 1919. 2006.
Geoffrey Wolf. Black Sun. The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby. New York: Vintage, 1977. [excerpts]
Edward Bruner. "Harry Crosby's Brief Transit. A Biographical Essay". [extract from website]. 2001.

SSU72

"WWI Diary. Thomas Edward Shirley". [extract from website]

Federalized units

John R. Smucker, Jr. The United States Army Ambulance Service in Armies of France and Italy, 1917-1918-1919, USAAS Association. 1967.
Charles W. Turner, ed. War Letters, 1917-1919, of Professor George Junkin Irwin Verona, VA: McClure. 1976.
George Shively, ed. S.S.U. 585. Yale Ambulance Unit with the French Army, 1917-1919. Privately printed. 1920.
George Shively Initiation. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925. [fiction]
History of Section 625, United States Army Ambulance Service with the French Army, cerca 1919.
Guy E. Bowerman, Jr. The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War Edited by Mark C. Carnes, Austin: University of Texas, 1983.

Réserve Mallet truck transport units

Martin W. Sampson, ed. Camion Letters from Men in the American Field Service. Henry Holt & Co. 1918.
Paul Heuzé. Les Camions de la Victoire. Paris: La Renaissance du Livre, 1920.
John Iden Kautz. Trucking to the Trenches. Letters from France, June-November 1917. Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1918.
American Field Service Bulletin. Special Mallet Reserve Number. March, 1919.
Kirkland H. Day. Camion Cartoons. Boston. Marshall Jones Company, 1919.
Greayer Clover. A Stop at Suzanne's. New York: George Doran. 1919.
Alden Rogers. The Hard White Road. Buffalo: Privately printed. 1923.
A Poet of the Air. Letters of Jack Morris Wright. First Lieutenant of the American Aviation in France. April, 1917-January, 1918. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
Claude Fuess. Phillips Academy Andover in the Great War. [excerpts]
Henry C. Wolfe. "Boys in a Man's War" from In My Time. A Medley of Andover Reminiscences. Claude M. Fuess, ed. Andover: Phillips Academy, 1959.
Leslie W. Quirk. Jimmy Goes to War. Boston. Little Brown, 1931.
Malcolm Cowley. Exile's Return. A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s. New York: Penguin, 1951 (1934).

 

Fellow ambulance services

Harjes Formation

Edward D. Toland. The Aftermath of Battle. With the Red Cross in France. New York: Macmillan, 1916.
Clarence V. Mitchell. With a Military Ambulance in France, 1914-1915. Privately printed, 1915.
Notes on the Harjes Family of Paris.

Norton-Harjes

"Richard Norton, Class of 1892, Harvard," in M.A. DeWolfe Howe (ed), Harvard in the Great War, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1922.
Henry S. Kingman. Section 61. Minneapolis: privately printed, 1917.
Edward R. Coyle. Ambulancing on the French Front. New York: Britton Publishing Company, 1918.
Carlos de Florez. "No. 6" A Few Pages from the Diary of an Ambulance Driver. New York: EP. Dutton, 1918.
Henry James, "The American Volunteer Motor-Ambulance Corps in France: A Letter to the Editor of an American Journal", Within the Rim, London: Collins, 1918.
Percy Lubbock, ed. The Letters of Henry James. New York: Scribners. 1920. Volume II.
Virginia Spencer Carr. Dos Passos, A Life. New York: Doubleday, 1984.
John Dos Passos. One Man's Initiation: 1917. A Novel. London: Allen and Undwin, 1920 .
---------------. Three Soldiers.

E.E. Cummings. The Enormous Room. Boni and Liveright, Inc., 1922.

Hector-Munro Ambulance Corps

Letters of Caspar Henry Burton, Jr. Edited by his brother, Spence Burton, S.S.J.E.

American Expedionary Forces Medical Services

Harry L. Smith, M.D. in collaboration with James R. Eckman. Memoirs of an Ambulance Company Officer. Rochester, MN: Doomsday Press, 1940.
Frederick A. Pottle. Stretchers. The Story of a Hospital Unit on the Western Front. New Haven :Yale University Press, 1929.
Antonin Guillot. The American Camp at Allerey (1918-1919). 1999.
Col. W. Lee Hart. History of Base Hospital Number 53, 1919.
William Schira. The Personal Diary of William J. "Bill" Schira in World War I.
Bob Thomas. Walt Disney. An American Original. New York: Simon & Schuster. 1976.

French Ambulance Units

Pierre-Alexis Muenier. L'Angoisse de Verdun. Notes d'un Conducteur d'Auto Sanitaire Paris: Hachette, 1918.

 

Lafayette Flying Corps

Quentin Reynolds. They Fought for the Sky. New York: Rinehart, 1957.
James R. McConnell. Flying for France. With the American Escadrille at Verdun. Garden City, New York. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1919.
A Poet of the Air. Letters of Jack Morris Wright. First Lieutenant of the American Aviation in France. April, 1917-January, 1918. Boston and New York. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918.
Clara E. Kimber. The Story of the First Flag. San Francisco: Friends of France, 1920.
Nancy Nichols, ed. Letters Home From the Lafayette Flying Corps. San Francisco: J.D. Huff, 1993.
Maclyn P. Burg and Thomas J. Pressly, ed. The Great War at Home and Abroad: The World War I Diaries and Letters of W. Stull Holt. Manhattan, Ks: Sunflower Univ. Press,1999.

Houston Woodward. A Year for France. New Haven. Yale Publishing Association, 1918.
Greayer Clover. A Stop at Suzanne's. New York: George Doran. 1919.
Dale Walk. "The Ted Parsons Story." Aviation Quarterly, 1978.


The American Field Service French Fellowships

Science and Learning in France. The Society for American Fellowships in French Universities, 1917.
American Field Service Association Bulletins, 1920-1935.
Maurice Caulléry. "French Universities and American Students" Harvard Graduates' Magazine, December 1917.
Stephen P. Duggan. Institute of International Education. Ninth Annual Report of the Director. IIE: NY, 1928
George Rock."Between the Wars: The Fellowships for French Universities and Blérancourt (1919 to 1939)" History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York, 1956.


World War Two

General

Roster of American Field Service Volunteers, 1939-1945.
Roll of Honour, American Field Service, 1939-1945.
George Rock. History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York, 1956.
Larry D. Geller. "Record Group 2, American Field Service archives of World War II, 1939-1945." Unpublished document. New York: AFS Archives N.D.
Katharine Savage. The Story of the Second World War. New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1957.
Overview of WWII: Europe and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific. National Geographic Cartographical Department. 1991.

 

France, 1939-40

Peter Muir. War Without Music. New York: Scribners, 1940.
Quentin Reynolds. The Wounded Don't Cry. New York: Dutton, 1941.
Barbara Hudnut Boston. "AFS Carries On." Town and Country Magazine. July, 1940.
American Friends of France. "Report of Activities, 1939-40." 1940.
Sylvie Péharpré, "American Humanitarian Aid in France in World War II," Petit Journal for the Summer Exhibit at Blérancourt, June 1994.
Edward Spears. Two Men who Saved France: Pétain and de Gaulle. New York: Stein and Day, 1966.
Herman Harjes, "With the Morgan Bank in England and France, 1939-1940" (unpublished)
Jacques Phillipet. S.O.S. Service de Santé. Neuchâtel: Baconnière, 1941.
Mary Borden. Journey Down a Blind Alley. New York: Harper & Bros, 1946.
Charles Bove with Dana Thomas. A Paris Surgeon's Story. New York, 1956.

 

With the British Army and the Free French, 1941-45

Several theaters

AFS Letters, 1942-1945. Published at AFS HQ, 60 Beaver Street, New York.
W.H. Perry. A Short History of 485 Company of the American Field Service. August 30-1942-May 2, 1945.
J.B. McKinney. Medical Units of 2 NZEF in Middle East and Italy. Wellington, NZ: War History Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, 1952.
Charles P. Edwards. An AFS Driver Remembers. [draft] New York: AFS, 2002.
Carl H. Adam. Tales of AFS in WWII. (Writings of an AFS editor and public relations director): undated manuscripts.
Joseph Desloge, Jr. Passport to Manhood. Self-published, 1995.
A Mother's Scrapbook: John Newlin Hobbs and the American Field Service, 1942-1945.
John Masters. A Road Past Mandalay. Bantam: New York, (1961)1979.
Hugh Popham. F.A.N.Y. The Story of the Women's Transportation Service, 1907-1984. London: Lee Cooper, 1984.
Jacques Duprey. L'Ambulance Hadfield-Spears. La drôle d'équipe. Paris: Nouvelles Editions Latines, 1953.
Rachel Millet. Spearette. A personal account of the Hadfield-Spears Ambulance Unit, 1940-1945. Ely, England: Fern, 1998.
A. Tegla Davies. Friends Ambulance Unit. The Story of the F.A.U. in the Second World War, 1939-1946. London: Allen and Unwin, 1947.

Middle East and North Africa

The AFS News Bulletin, 1943-1944. Published by Members of the American Field Service in the Middle East, 1942-43.
Benefit Exhibition for the American Field Service. Whitney Museum, New York, 1942.
Andrew Geer. Mercy in Hell. An American Ambulance Driver with the Eighth Army. MaGraw Hill, New York, 1943.
Evan Thomas. Ambulance in Africa. New York: Appleton. 1943.
Stuart Benson. "Comments On The American Field Service And The Middle East." Text of lecture. March 1942.
Cliff Saber. Desert Rat Sketchbook. New York: Sketchbook Press. 1959.
"Letter from Libya," (QuickTime movie). AFS, New York, 1944.
Caleb Milne. I Dream of the Day. Africa 1942-1943. New York: Longman's, 1945.
Robert John Crawford. "I Was an Eighth Army Soldier." London: Gollanz, 1944.
W.G.F. Jackson. The Battle for North Africa, 1940-1943. Mason/Charter: New York, 1975.
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery. New York: Signet, 1959 (1958).
Correlli Barnett. The Desert Generals. New York: Berkeley, 1960.

Italy

Paul C. Rodgers. The Saga of Section Six. New York: AFS, 1994.
The Tiger Triumphs---The Story of Three Great Divisions in Italy. H.M. Stationary Office (for the Government of India), 1946.
Oliver Barres. One Shepherd, One Flock. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1956. (excerpt)
Alfred A. Parsell. War Is Not Only For Soldiers. Civilian Life in World War II Italy As Observed by AFS Volunteer Ambulance Drivers. New York: AFS, 1994.
Fred Majdalany. The Battle of Cassino. New York: Ballentine, 1957.
Christopher Hibbert. Anzio: The Bid for Rome. New York: Ballentine, 1970.

India-Burma

Trevor N. Dupuy, ed. Asiatic Land Battles: Allied Victories in China and Burma. New York: Franklin Watts. 1963.
Don Moser, ed. China-Burma-India. New York: Time-Life. 1978.
Scott Gilmore. A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurka Rifles. A Burma Memoir. Brassey's: London, 1995.
John Frederick Muehl. American Sahib. New York: John Day, 1946.
Gordon S. Seagrave. Burma Surgeon.. Norton: New York, 1943.
--------. Burma Surgeon Returns.. Norton: New York, 1946.
Alan K. Lathrop. "Dateline: Burma". Dartmouth Medicine, Spring 2004.

Paul Geren. Burma Diary. 1943.
Charles Evans. A Doctor in XIVth Army, Burma 1944-1945. London: Leo Cooper, 1998.
Antony Brett-James. Ball of Fire. The Fifth Indian Division in the Second World War. Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1951.
J.H. Williams. Elephant Bill.. Rupert Hart-Davis: London, 1950.
Tim Carew. Man For Man.. First Nel Paperback: London, 1971 (1955). [fiction]
Frank Bonham. Burma Rifles.. Crowell: New York, 1960. [fiction]
John Patrick. The Hasty Heart. Comedy-Drama in Three Acts, 1944.

Endgame

Trevor N. Dupuy, ed. European Land Battles: 1944-1945. New York: Franklin Watts. 1962.
Anita Leslie A Story Half Told. A Wartime Autobiography. London: Hutchinson. 1984.

 


High School Exchanges

Prep school Origins

Peterson's 1999-2000 Guide to Private Secondary Schools, 1999.
Ernest Kolowrat. Hotchkiss. A Chronicle of an American School. New Amsterdam Press, 1992.
John Evelyn Wrench. Struggle, 1914-1918. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1935.
Stephen Birmingham. Chapter 22: "To serve...", America's Secret Aristocracy, New York: Berkley Books, 1985.
Albert E. Benson. History of Saint Mark's School. 1925.

 

Growth

The Political Dimension

Henry J. Kellermann. Cultural Relations--Instrument of Foreign Policy. U.S.-German Exchange. 1945-54. State Department, 1978.
Walter Johnson & Francis J. Colligan. The Fulbright Program: A History.. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

U.S. Congress. Public Law 402 (Jan 27, 1948) and Public Law 584 (Aug 1, 1946).

Documents

George Rock. "The First Years of the Teenage Programs (1946-1955)." History of the American Field Service, 1920-1955. New York, 1956.
William P. Orrick. The First Thirty Years of the AFS International Scholarships. New York: AFS Archives, 1991.
Bärbel Helmers & Dagmar Bethkowsky. 50 Years of Hosting in Germany. AFS Germany, 2002
William P. Orrick, ed. A Selection of Correspondence between AFS New York and the German Office, 1957-1960, AFS Archives, 1997.

Glen McMurry "First German students get AFS scholarships" (1952).

Interviews (sound files)

William P. Orrick. Long interview with Dorothy Field. No date.
William P. Orrick. Short interview with Dorothy Field. No date.
William P. Orrick. Interview with Sally Howells. [Third party unidentified]. No date.

 

Context: Other youth exchanges and programs

Youth programs

E.E. Reynolds. Baden-Powell, A Biography. 1942.
Joshua Miner & Joe Boldt. Outward Bound USA. 1992.
Arthur Gillette. One Million Volunteers. The Story of Volunteer Youth Service. London: Pellican, 1968.

Youth abroad

Sven V. Knudsen. My Friends Abroad. The International Interchange of Boys. Boston: self-published, 1932.
International Fellowship Through School-Boy Contacts Ecole du Montcel, 1928.
Adventure in Service. The story of Rotary---its origin, growth, and influence. Evanston: Rotary International, 1949.
Claude Fuess. Independent Schoolmaster. Boston: Little, Brown. 1952. Chapter 16.
Donald B. Watt. Intelligence is not Enough. The Story of My First Forty Years and of the Early Years of The Experiment in International Living. Putney, VT: The Experiment Press, 1967.
John A. Wallace. The Experiment in International Living. Opening Doors Worldwide. Putney, VT: Whetstone, 1996.
David T. Dana III A Generous Idea. Saint Paul's School and Seikei Gakuen. Chevy Chase, MD: Posterity Press, 2000
Preparation for Tomorrow. A German Boy's Year in America. U.S. State Department Publication, 1951.

Peace Corps

Brent Ashabranner. A Moment in History. The First Ten Years of the Peace Corps. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971.
Thomas J. Scanlon. Waiting for the Snow. The Peace Corps Papers of a Charter Volunteer. Chevy Chase, MD: Posterity Press, 1997.
Fritz Fischer. Making Them Like Us. Peace Corps Volunteers in the 1960s. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998.
Dillon Banerjee. So You Want to Join the Peace Corps. Berkeley: Ten Speed, 2000.

 

The experience called "AFS"

Stories

Marian Mitchell. "Our Tony" in Saturday Evening Post, July 7, 1956.
Katherine T. Kinkead. Walk Together, Talk Together. The American Field Service Student Exchange Program. New York: Norton, 1962.
Libby Machol. Gianna. Boston: Beacon, 1967.
M.E. Eiseman. Everyone has a Story to Tell: Forty Years of AFS. Milwaukee: M Press, 1987.
Audra Snyder Bailey. Hold Fast to Dreams. Indianapolis: Guild, 1996.
Clarissa Lorenz. Junket to Japan. Boston: Little Brown, 1960.
Bronwyn Horton. Letters from Thailand. AFS Australia, 1995.
Megan McNeill Libby. Postcards from France. New York: Harper's, 1997.
Georg Broch, ed. The AFS Story. Journeys of a Lifetime. 1914, 1947, 1997. Oslo: AFS Norge. 1997.

Publications

AFS Newsletter. September, 1955. New York: AFS.
AFS Newsletter. August, 1956. New York: AFS.
Our World. Vol. 21, Issue No. 1, 1969. New York: AFS.
Our World. Vol. 22, Issue No. 2, 1970. New York: AFS.
Vikingen 66. Bulletin of AFS Sweden, 1966.
Texts of U.S Presidents' speeches to visiting AFS students.
American Field Service International Cookbook. Buffalo: Western NY Committee, AFS, 1960.

Movies (QuickTime)

"The AFS Story", AFS Intercultural Programs, 1989.
"Journeys, AFS Adventures in Latin America", AFS Intercultural Programs, 1991.
"The Bradley-AFS Russian Exchanges", McNeil/Lehrer Report, 1993.
"Building Citizenship for a Diverse World", Keynote film for AFS World Congress, AFS Intercultural Programs, 1993.

 

The new field: learning from experience

Adventures abroad

J. Daniel Hess. Studying Abroad/Learning Abroad. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1997.
Council on International Educational Exchange. Going Places. The High School Student's Guide to Study, Travel and Adventure Abroad. New York: St. Martin's, 1993.
Council on International Educational Exchange. Black Students and Overseas Programs: Broadening the Base of Participation. New York: CIEE, 1991.
Bettina Hansel. The Exchange Student Survival Guide. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1993.
John Hawks. The Complete Guide to the Homestay Experience Abroad. New York: Facts on File, 1994.
L. Robert Kohls. Survival Kit for Overseas Living For Americans Planning to Live and Work Abroad. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1996.

On the home front

Nancy King and Ken Huff. Host Family Survival Kit. A Guide for American Host Families. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1985.
Craig Storti. The Art of Coming Home. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1997.

Education

Education for the Intercultural Experience. R. Michael Paige, ed. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1993.
Norman L. Kauffmann, Judith N. Martin, and Henry D. Weaver, with Judy Weaver. Students Abroad: Strangers at Home. Education for a Global Society. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1992.
Craig Storti. Cross-Cultural Dialogues. 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, 1994.

Organization and logistics

Stephen H. Rhinesmith. Bring Home the World. A Management Guide for Community Leaders of International Programs. New York: AMACOM, 1975.
------. A Manager's Guide to Globalization. Six Keys to Success in a Changing World. Alexandria, VA: ASTD, 1993.

 

Field theory: the dynamics of intercultural experience

Dimensions of culture

Edward T. Hall. The Silent Language. New York: Anchor, 1973 (Doubleday 1959).
------. The Hidden Dimension. New York: Anchor, 1966.
------. Beyond Culture. New York: Anchor ,1976.
------. The Dance of Life. New York: Anchor, 1984.
------. An Anthropology of Everyday Life. An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
Paul Bohannan. How Culture Works. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Clyde Kluckhohn. Mirror for Man. New York: Premier, 1957, (McGraw Hill 1949).

Intercultural perspectives

Edward C. Stewart. American Cultural Patterns: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Pittsburgh: Regional Council for International Education, 1971 (Doubleday 1959).
Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter & Lisa A. Stefani. Communication Between Cultures. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.
Michael R. Laubscher. Encounters with Difference. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1994.
Peggy Golde, ed. Women in the Field. Anthropological Experiences. Second edition, expanded and updated. Berkeley: University of California, 1970, 1986.
Margaret Mead. Letters from the Field, 1925-1975. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
Jill M. Bystydzienski and Estelle Resnik, ed. Women in Cross-Cultural Transitions. Bloomington, IN: Phi Delta Cappa, 1994.
David E. Young & Jean-Guy Goulet. The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience. Broadview Press, 1994.

Rites of Passage

Joseph Chilton Pearce. Magical Child. New York: Dutton, 1977.
Arnold van Gennep. The Rites of Passage. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1960 (1909).
Mircea Eliade. The Sacred and the Profane. New York: Harper, 1957.
------. Rites and Symbols of Initiation. New York: Harper, 1958.
Bernadette Roberts. The Experience of No-Self. Boston: Shamballa, 1984