Autobiography, Volume II (1916-1920)

From the cover flap:

Julian Green was as young as the century when in 1916 his world was turned upside down by war. Encouraged by his father to 'do something' for the war effort he joined up in the American Field Service to fight for France, the land of his birth.

After a period of training as an ambulance driver, he and his comrads were sent to the Argonne forest on the north-Eastern front where, shortly after his arrival, he heard the rumble of gun-fire reverberating from the forts at Verdun. It was not long before the horrors of war began to make their impression on his young mind: his first sight of a dead soldier made him a pacifist for life.

Later, when it was discovered that he was too young to be at war, Green was sent home to Paris, but he soon managed to enlist in the American Red Cross and set off to serve as an ambulance driver once more, this time on the Italian front, north of Venice.

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