Publisher's Synopsis
"At the beginning of the First World War there was much sympathy in America for the French, British and Russians against the Germans, Austrians and Turks. But the United States Neutralization Act made it a felony for citizens to support either the Allies or the Huns except for humanitarian assistance to either side. To avoid the proscriptions of the Neutralization Act many wealthy, prominent Americans bought ambulances for the French Army and recruited college students from the nation's top colleges and prep schools to man them. Jack and Alan Nichols lived at home with their parents Walter Hammond Nichols and Eleanor C. Nichols in the small town of Palo Alto, California, and were students at Stanford just across the then street. Both were avid pro "Allies". Alan, a Junior at Stanford, was older and left for France first while Jack, a Freshman, followed some months later. For two small town young teenage boys who had never left Palo Alto
