The Backwash of War;

08/03/2020

The Backwash of War;. Ellen N La Motte

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Author: Ellen N La Motte
Published Date: 17 May 2018
Publisher: Trieste Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback::212 pages
ISBN10: 0649002814
File size: 15 Mb
File Name: the-backwash-of-war-.pdf
Dimension: 152x 229x 11mm::290g
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Download The Backwash of War;. THE BACKWASH OF WAR is not done as a documentary. And it certainly isn't first person nor the type of history you would get with Xenophone or Gregory of Tours. Instead, this is a book of vignettes. And the author, Ellen Newbold La Motte, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918 - Hospitals, charities, etc Publisher New York and London:G. P. Putnam's sons Collection cdl; americana Digitizing sponsor MSN Contributor University of California Libraries Language English "The Backwash of War is an important book. Through her sensitive and informed editing, Wachtell paints a subtle picture of LaMotte that includes censorship, suffragism, her relationship with the lesbian avant-garde scene in Paris, political activism, and her influence on other American writers. The Backwash of War (Classics To Go) (English Edition) e oltre 1.000.000 di libri sono disponibili per Amazon Kindle.Maggiori informazioni Long before the United States entered World War I in April 1917, a trained American nurse named Ellen N. La Motte volunteered to work in a French field hospital on the Western Front. The extraordinary collection of stories she wrote about her experience there, The Backwash of War, is unlike any work of its time. Published in the fall of 1916, The Backwash of War was immediately banned in England and France. Two years later, after being widely hailed as America’s most significant work of war writing and going through four printings, the book was deemed damaging to morale and censored in wartime America. Scopri The Backwash of War di Ellen N. La Motte: spedizione gratuita per i clienti Prime e per ordini a partire da 29€ spediti da Amazon. Conversely, Cynthia Wachtell has wisely resurrected the provocative composition of Ellen La Motte’s The Backwash of War.This work conveys an entirely different perspective of the World War during the low ebb period of the Allied war effort against the Central Powers. What she found there appalled and depressed but did not silence her. Her sketches of life in a working field hospital appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and were later published as The Backwash of War. Ellen pulled no punches. Her descriptions of the effect of modern industrialised warfare are clear-sighted, cynical sometime darkly humorous. Compra The Backwash of War;. SPEDIZIONE GRATUITA su ordini idonei. Passa al contenuto principale. Iscriviti a Prime Ciao, Accedi Account e liste Accedi Account e liste Resi e Ordini Iscriviti a Prime Carrello. Tutte le categorie. VAI Ricerca Bestseller Idee regalo As the 6 The Backwash of War MSdecin Major stood there, patiently finger- ing the hairs on his hairy arms, he calculated the amount of ether that was expended — five cans of ether, at so many francs a can — however, the ether was a donation from America, so it did not matter. Even so, it was wasteful. At last they said he was ready. The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Backwash of War, by Ellen N. La Motte This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. 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 War—and the slow, onward progress stirs up the slime in the shallows, and this is the Backwash of War.

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