The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

By Ellen N. La Motte

The Backwash of War is an intense and immersive textbook about the consequences and emotional toll of war. Ellen La Motte's book is about the chronicles of her experience as a nurse in World War I. These accounts of La Motte's firsthand experience are written in an often bitter and cynical manner.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 24, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066120320

Ellen N. La Motte

Ellen La Motte was an American nurse, journalist and author. She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Baltimore, and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe.

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