Nurses at the Front: Writing the Wounds of the Great War
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Book Overview
Ellen La Motte (1873-1961) and Mary Borden (1886-1968) are two of the best known American nurses who wrote about their experiences working in the same field hospital on the Western front during World... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1555534848
ISBN13:9781555534844
Release Date:April 2001
Publisher:Northeastern University Press
Length:161 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 9.1"
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Please, please, please read this book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Very few war books are written by women. This book is one of those, and, next to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried' and 'Going After Cacciato,' it's absolutely among the very best. Based on the women's experiences as nurses at the front during the First World War, it is spare, unflinching, horrifying - and at the same time, poetic, elegiac, and beautiful. Not an exclamation point anywhere, no attempt to dramatize or sensationalize the death and maiming injuries they saw daily. Read it, and prepare to be overwhelmed.
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