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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 Motte In 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
Backwash of War was immediately banned in both England and France
and later censored in wartime America. At once deeply unsettling
and darkly humorous, this compelling book presents a unique view of
the destruction wrought by war to the human body and spirit. Long
neglected, it is an astounding book by an extraordinary woman and
merits a place among major works of WWI literature. This volume
gathers, for the first time, La Motte's published writing about the
First World War. In addition to Backwash, it includes three
long-forgotten essays. Annotated for a modern audience, the book
features both a comprehensive introduction to La Motte's war-time
writing in its historical and literary contexts and the first
extended biography of the "lost" author of this "lost classic." Not
only did La Motte boldly breach decorum in writing The Backwash of
War, but she also forcefully challenged societal norms in other
equally remarkable ways, as a debutante turned Johns
Hopkins-trained nurse, pathbreaking public health advocate and
administrator, suffragette, journalist, writer, lesbian, and
self-proclaimed anarchist.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1920 Edition.
1920. This work reveals the opium trade, how it came to be and how
the author proposed to stop it. Opium is not profitable in its
legitimate use. It is only profitable because of the demands of
addicts, men and women deliberately debauched, either through the
legalized machinery of colonial governments, or through the illegal
activities of smugglers. A moral sentiment that will balk at this
immense overproduction, the sole object of which is to create drug
victims, is the only weapon to fight it. In giving this book to the
public, the author was calling upon that moral sentiment.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
1920. This work reveals the opium trade, how it came to be and how
the author proposed to stop it. Opium is not profitable in its
legitimate use. It is only profitable because of the demands of
addicts, men and women deliberately debauched, either through the
legalized machinery of colonial governments, or through the illegal
activities of smugglers. A moral sentiment that will balk at this
immense overproduction, the sole object of which is to create drug
victims, is the only weapon to fight it. In giving this book to the
public, the author was calling upon that moral sentiment.
Ellen LaMotte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and
author. She began her nursing career as a tuberculosis nurse in
Baltimore and then served as an army nurse in Europe during World
War I. After that she traveled to Asia where she saw the effects of
opium addiction. The Backwash of War (1934) was based on her
diaries kept during her time at the front. La Motte speaks of her
time in an army hospital in France as periods of boredom
interspersed with moments of fright. The Backwash of War is an
excellent memoir of war from the viewpoint of a woman army nurse.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This work reveals the opium trade, how it came to be and how the
author proposed to stop it. Opium is not profitable in its
legitimate use. It is only profitable because of the demands of
addicts, men and women deliberately debauched, either through the
legalized machinery of colonial governments, or through the illegal
activities of smugglers. A moral sentiment that will balk at this
immense overproduction, the sole object of which is to create drug
victims, is the only weapon to fight it. In giving this book to the
public, the author was calling upon that moral sentiment.
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