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Banned in multiple countries for its frank depiction of the horrors of war, Ellen N. La Motte's The Backwash of War is one of the most stunning antiwar books ever published.'We are witnessing a phase in the evolution of humanity, a phase called Warand the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War. It is very ugly.'Ellen N. La MotteIn September 1916, as World War I advanced into a third deadly year, an American woman named Ellen N. La Motte published a collection of stories about her experience as a war nurse. Deemed damaging to morale, The Backwash of War was immediately banned in both England and France and later censored in wartime America. At once deeply unsettling and darkly humorous, this compelling book presents a unique view of the destruction wrought by war to the human body and spirit. Long neglected, it is an astounding book by an extraordinary woman and merits a place among major works of WWI literature.This volume gathers, for the first time, La Motte's published writing about the First World War. In addition to Backwash, it includes three longforgotten essays. Annotated for a modern audience, the book features both a comprehensive introduction to La Motte's wartime writing in its historical and literary contexts and the first extended biography of the 'lost' author of this 'lost classic.' Not only did La Motte boldly breach decorum in writing The Backwash of War, but she also forcefully challenged societal norms in other equally remarkable ways, as a debutante turned Johns Hopkinstrained nurse, pathbreaking public health advocate and administrator, suffragette, journalist, writer, lesbian, and selfproclaimed anarchist.
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