The Backwash of War

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 p ...

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. 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 Bac