# The Ambulance Drivers

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- Authors: [James McGrath Morris](https://www.bookquiver.com/james-mcgrath-morris)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0682-383-1
- Published: 2017-04-27
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

Rich in evocative detail--from Paris cafés to Austrian chateaus, from the streets of Pamplona to the waters of Key West--The Ambulance Drivers tells the story of two aspiring writers, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, who met in World War I and forged a twenty-year friendship that produced some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a generation shaken by war. In war, Hemingway found adventure, women, and a cause. Dos Passos saw only oppression and futility. Their different visions eventually turned their private friendship into a nasty public fight, fueled by money, jealousy, and lust. This is not only a biography of the turbulent friendship between two of the century's greatest writers but also an illustration of how war inspires and destroys, unites and divides.