Nurses at the front : writing the wounds of the Great War

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Publishes selections from the memoirs of Ellen N. La Motte & Mary Borden, 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. Simultaneous hardcover.

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Margaret R. Higonnet is Professor of English at the University of Connecticut and an Affiliate at Harvard University's Center for European Studies

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Higonnet (English, Univ. of Connecticut) brings together excerpts from the graphic, sometimes horrifying, accounts of two nurses' experiences in World War I: Ellen N. La Motte's The Backwash of War (1916) and Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone (1929). Both women recognized the futility of nursing at the front, where the objective was to heal soldiers so that they might go back to kill or be killed. Indeed, La Motte's writing was so forceful that her book was censored for a time. Higonnet's introduction gives context to the women's writing and notes the parallels in their lives, the incidents they sketched and their observations of the conduct of war, and the place of women in particular. Their vivid descriptions and critiques of the war provide another viewpoint to those of combatants. Since the two original books are no longer in print and are not widely available, this volume would be a useful addition to academic and public libraries with interests in World War I and especially in women's accounts of the war. Patricia A. Beaber, Coll. of New Jersey Lib., Ewing (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction	p. vii
Glossary of French Terms	p. xxxix
From The Backwash of WarEllen N. La Motte
Introduction (1916)	p. 3
Heroes	p. 5
Alone	p. 13
A Belgian Civilian	p. 21
The Interval	p. 29
Women and Wives	p. 39
Pour la Patrie	p. 49
A Surgical Triumph	p. 57
At the Telephone	p. 65
A Citation	p. 69
From The Forbidden ZoneMary Borden
Preface (1929)	p. 79
Belgium	p. 81
The Square	p. 85
Moonlight	p. 89
Enfant de Malheur	p. 99
Rosa	p. 119
Conspiracy	p. 129
Paraphernalia	p. 133
In the Operating Room	p. 137
Blind	p. 145

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