Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Biography

Chronology

The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

Introduction to 1916 Edition

Introduction to 1934 Edition

Heroes

La Patrie Reconnaissante

The Hole in the Hedge

Alone

A Belgian Civilian

The Interval

Women and Wives

Pour la Patrie

Locomotor Ataxia

A Surgical Triumph

At the Telephone

A Citation

An Incident

Esmeralda

War Essays by Ellen N. La Motte

An American Nurse in Paris

Under Shell-Fire at Dunkirk

A Joy Ride

Significant Publications by Ellen N. La Motte

Illustrations

Notes

Index