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Philip Sidney Rice
1878–1927
A World War I ambulance driver turned his own frontline service into vivid memoir. His writing brings Verdun close, with the urgency of someone who was there and determined to remember it honestly.
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An American Crusader at Verdun
by Philip Sidney Rice
About the author
Born in 1878, Philip Sidney Rice was an American writer best remembered for his firsthand accounts of World War I service in France. Records from the American Field Service note that he attended Princeton as part of the class of 1901, though briefly, and that he went to France in May 1917 to join the volunteer ambulance effort.
Rice wrote An Ambulance Driver in France and the later edition An American Crusader at Verdun, books drawn from his experiences on the Western Front. The Library of Congress identifies An American Crusader at Verdun as an edition that followed the earlier An Ambulance Driver in France, and Project Gutenberg has helped keep that work available to modern readers.
He died in 1927. Today, his reputation rests on clear, personal war writing that captures both the danger of the front and the determination of volunteers who served there.