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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewIn editing the new scholarly edition of
Backwash, Wachtell added illuminating introductory and biographical essays robustly researched from primary sources; a bibliography; timeline; photographs; and three wartime essays by La Motte . . . More than a century after its appearance,
Backwash remains a truth bomb.
—Rosemary Hutzler Raun,
Johns Hopkins MagazineThe Wachtell edition - a fascinating mix of history, literature and women's studies - is a very important piece of scholarship, deserving of a wide audience . . . When one thinks of literary classics of WWI, Hemingway's
A Farewell to Arms, Remarque's
All Quiet on the Western Front, and perhaps E.E. Cummings'
The Enormous Room usually come to mind . . . And now there's this one,
The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse in World War I, which came before any of those others . . . My congratulations to Dr. Wachtell. My highest recommendation.
—Tim Bazzett,
Library ThingThe most comprehensive and authoritative edition of a classic . . . The editor's exhaustive research has resulted in a rounded, impressive and sympathetic portrait of a fascinating woman who was a great humanitarian and whose claim to fame is not confined to
The Backwash of War. The book should be compulsory reading for anyone considering joining the military and also their dearest and nearest.
—Peter van den Dungen, Bertha von Suttner Peace Institute, The Hague,
Medicine, Conflict and SurvivalTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Biography
Chronology
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 N. La Motte
Notes
Index
Illustrations follow page
