Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse
By Ellen Newbold La Motte · Running time 02:38:51 · War & Military, Medical, Modern (20th C)
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Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I. In Belgium she served in a French field hospital, keeping a bitter diary detailing the horrors that she witnessed daily. “I am a professor of American studies and recently spent several years researching the life of Ellen N. La Motte, a long-forgotten nurse and public health crusader. In particular, I focused on her war writing. Soon after World War I began, she volunteered as a nurse in a French fi
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