Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
By (author): "Margaret R. Higonnet"
ISBN1555534848
ISBN139781555534844
AsinNurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
Original titleNurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
Ellen La Motte (1873-1961) and Mary Borden (1886-1968) are two of the best known American nurses who wrote about their experiences working in the same field hospital on the Western front during World War I. La Motte's The Backwash of War (1916) and Borden's The Forbidden Zone (1929) present in powerful, vivid and often haunting prose each woman's acute observations of the stark realities of battle and the severe conditions under which military medicine is practised.
