The Compensations of War: The Diary of an Ambulance Driver During the Great WarIn 1917, shortly after the United States' declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army's ambulance service. Like other young ambulance drivers Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings, Cowley Bowerman longed to "see the show." He was glad to learn that the ambulance units were leaving for France right away. For seventeen months, until the armistice of November 1918, Bowerman kept an almost daily diary of the war. To