The Last Mile (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Last Mile

He had been made much of, those days, for men who had seen the war at close hand were comparatively few and considerably sought after. It tickled his vanity, but it made him somewhat shamefaced, for he had learned that being in uniform and being in France does not automatically make one a hero, nor was the part played by an ambulance driver essentially heroic. But his friends seemed incapable of discrimina tion and pursued a peculiarly warped reasoning: Good old Broadhurst, he has been in France; that's where the war is. Men who go to war are heroes. Therefore.

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