The backwash of war : an extraordinary American nurse in World War I / by Ellen N. La Motte ; edited with an introduction and biography by Cynthia Wachtell, editor.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Backwash of war : the human wreckage of the battlefield as witnessed by an American hospital nurse -- Introduction to 1916 edition -- Introduction to 1934 edition -- Heroes -- La patrie reconnaissante -- The hole in the hedge -- Alone -- A Belgian civilian -- The interval -- Women and wives -- Pour la patrie -- Locomotor ataxia -- A surgical triumph -- At the telephone -- A citation -- An incident -- Esmeralda -- War essays by Ellen N. La Motte -- An American nurse in Paris -- Under shell-fire at Dunkirk -- A joy ride -- Significant publications by Ellen La Motte --

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