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The Backwash of War

Name: The Backwash of War
Author: Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

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The Backwash of War The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Meredith Bach, René Anderson Benitz and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2008-10-12

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Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc.World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives D501

About the author

Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

1873–1961

An American nurse, writer, and fearless critic of war, she brought the human cost of World War I to the page with unusual honesty. Her work is still remembered for its stark, unsentimental view of suffering and injustice.

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