The Backwash of War / The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse
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About This Book
Ellen LaMotte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in Baltimore and then served as an army nurse in Europe during World War I. After that she traveled to Asia where she saw the effects of opium addiction. The Backwash of War (1934) was based on her diaries kept during her time at the front. La Motte speaks of her time in an army hospital in France as periods of boredom interspersed with moments of fright. The Backwash of War is an excellent memoir of war from the viewpoint of a woman army nurse.
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- The Backwash of War
- The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse By
- Ellen N. La Motte
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons New York and London
- 1916
- INTRODUCTION
- CONTENTS
- HEROES
- LA PATRIE RECONNAISSANTE
- THE HOLE IN THE HEDGE
- ALONE
- A BELGIAN CIVILIAN
- THE INTERVAL
- WOMEN AND WIVES
- POUR LA PATRIE
- LOCOMOTOR ATAXIA
- A SURGICAL TRIUMPH
- AT THE TELEPHONE
- A CITATION
- AN INCIDENT
- A Selection from the Catalogue of G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
- Complete Catalogue sent on application
- The Night Cometh
- Paul Bourget
- Translated by Frederic Lees
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- Halt! Who’s There?
- “Aunt Sarah and the War”
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons
- A TALL SHIP
- G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
- News from Somewhere
- James Milne
- G. P. Putnam’s Sons
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