Nurses at the front : writing the wounds of the Great War / edited by Margaret R. Higonnet.
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TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Northeastern University Press, c2001.Description: xli, 161 p. ; 22 cmISBN: - 1555534848 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1555534856 (alk. paper)
- 9781555534844
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Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 940.475 N974 | Available | 33111006064659 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
An anthology of reprinted war sketches from E.N. La Motte's "The backwash of war" and M. Borden's The forbidden zone."
Includes bibliographical references.