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Lifetime: 1873 - 1961 Passed: ≈ 63 years ago

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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 Cover image

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...