Gelett Burgess 
War the Creator [EPUB ebook] 

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance.
Burgess’s novel 'War the Creator’ is an account of a young man he had met in Paris in July 1914, and saw again as a wounded soldier a few months later: 'a boy who, in two months, became a man.’