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The Backwash Of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse In World War I Extraordinary American Nurse In World War I by Ellen N. La Motte edited with an introduction and biography by Cynthia Wachtell is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In September 1916, as World War I advanced into a third deadly year, an American woman named Ellen N. La Motte published a collection of stories about her experiences as a war nurse. Deemed damaging to morale, The Backwash of War was immediately banned in both England and France and later censored in wartime America. At once deeply unsettling and darkly humorous, this compelling book presents a unique view of the destruction wrought by war to the human body and spirit. Long neglected, it is an astounding book by an extraordinary woman and merits a place among major works of WWI literature. This volume gathers, for the first time, La Motte's published writing about the First World War. In addition to Backwash, it includes three long-forgotten essays. Annotated for a modern audience, the book features both a comprehensive introduction to La Motte's war-time writing in its historical and literary contexts and the first extended biography of the "lost" author of this "lost classic." -- Provided by publisher

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Author

Ellen N. La Motte edited with an introduction and biography by Cynthia Wachtell

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press Project MUSE

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421426723

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Western, Nursing, Memoir

Rating

4.6 / 5 (16 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14