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THE BACKWASH OF WAR by Ellen N. La Motte

First published in 1916, the book was banned in Belgium and France, and was eventually banned in the United States after they joined the war.

Ellen La Motte was already leading a pioneering life in nursing at the outbreak of the First World War, but a request from Gertrude Stein (an old acquaintance) to join her in Paris would be the catalyst that launched her career in journalism.

Initially turned down at an American run hospital in France (too many volunteers), La Motte ventured to Belgium to work for the French. As a nurse, she was allowed much closer to the front then journalists, which allowed her to see and write about things that were not yet spoken of at home.

Her articles were originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and were eventually collected and published in this volume. Considered by many to be the most depressing of the memoirs written by women in the Great War, it is also thought to be the most truthful. Disillusioned by what she saw, La Motte left Europe to continue her life of nursing and writing in China.

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