Name: The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World war i (en Inglés)
SKU: 51352692
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Author: Ellen N. La Motte
ISBN: 9781421426716

portada The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World war i (en Inglés)

The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World war i (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Johns Hopkins University Press

Autor

Ellen N. La Motte

Año

2019

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

264

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781421426716

Categorías

Biografía: histórica, política y militar

The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World war i (en Inglés)

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"We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called War―and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War. It is very ugly."―Ellen N. La MotteIn 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 experience 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." Not only did La Motte boldly breach decorum in writing The Backwash of War, but she also forcefully challenged societal norms in other equally remarkable ways, as a debutante turned Johns Hopkins–trained nurse, pathbreaking public health advocate and administrator, suffragette, journalist, writer, lesbian, and self-proclaimed anarchist.