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Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War

Margaret R. Higonnet

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Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden 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 and Borden's The Forbidden Zone 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.

Language: English

Pages: 161

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: April 19, 2001

ISBN: 1555534848

ISBN 13: 9781555534844

Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War

Margaret R. Higonnet

4/5 ( ratings)

Ellen La Motte and Mary Borden 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 and Borden's The Forbidden Zone 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.

Language: English

Pages: 161

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Northeastern University Press

Release: April 19, 2001

ISBN: 1555534848

ISBN 13: 9781555534844

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