Timeline
Lifetime:
1873 -
1961
Passed: ≈
63 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Ellen Newbold La Motte
Books by Ellen Newbold La Motte
Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse
History
Memoir
Non-Fiction
War
World war i
Medical history
Medical ethics
Nursing
Humanitarian aid
Social Activism
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Wartime Medicine
Wartime Atrocities
Disabled Veterans
Women in War
A gripping and unflinching account of the horrors of war as witnessed by an American nurse on the front lines of World War I. Ellen Newbold La Motte's 'Backwash of War' is a powerful indictment of the human cost of conflict, exposing the physical and...