Banned by the American government in 1918, this controversial book reveals the dirty, smelly, lice and disease ridden 'human wreckage' of highly organised and industrialised warfare.
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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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Hardback. Etat : Fair. 'War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side. I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash.'Ellen La Motte, Volunteer Nurse, 4 May 1916The ?backwash? of Ellen La Motte?s controversial book are the dirty, smelly, lice and disease ridden bodies of wounded French soldiers brought into her field hospital, ten kilometres behind the Western Front of the First World War. They compose the ?human wreckage? of highly organised and industrialised warfare. Arranged into 14 vignettes, The Backwash of War paints a picture of that conflict which seems so familiar to modern readers with nearly a century of writing about it to draw on. Yet, even with the passage of time, Ellen La Motte?s first hand observations and comments, sometimes cynical, sometimes poignant, retain a freshness and continue to make for compelling reading. Her graphic and highly vivid studies of how modern weapons of war can truly wreck the human body and mind remain a potent reminder of the true costs of conflict. No wonder the American government banned The Backwash of War in 1918. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1844862585A
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Hardback. Etat : Fair. 'War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side. I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash.'Ellen La Motte, Volunteer Nurse, 4 May 1916The ?backwash? of Ellen La Motte?s controversial book are the dirty, smelly, lice and disease ridden bodies of wounded French soldiers brought into her field hospital, ten kilometres behind the Western Front of the First World War. They compose the ?human wreckage? of highly organised and industrialised warfare. Arranged into 14 vignettes, The Backwash of War paints a picture of that conflict which seems so familiar to modern readers with nearly a century of writing about it to draw on. Yet, even with the passage of time, Ellen La Motte?s first hand observations and comments, sometimes cynical, sometimes poignant, retain a freshness and continue to make for compelling reading. Her graphic and highly vivid studies of how modern weapons of war can truly wreck the human body and mind remain a potent reminder of the true costs of conflict. No wonder the American government banned The Backwash of War in 1918. N° de réf. du vendeur CIN1844862585A
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