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Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist, and author who made her mark during World War I. In 1915, she became one of the first American war nurses to volunteer in Europe, where she treated soldiers in a French field hospital in Belgium. La Motte kept a poignant diary that vividly captured the harrowing realities of war. As a professor of American studies who has devoted years to researching her life, I delved into her compelling war writings. Shortly after the war began, La Motte published her groundbreaking book, “The Backwash of War,” which presents a mix ...

Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was a pioneering American nurse, journalist, and author who made her mark during World War I. In 1915, she bravely volunteered as one of the first American war nurses in Europe, serving in a French field hospital in Belgium. There, she meticulously documented the harrowing realities of war in a candid diary, revealing the grim and often darkly humorous experiences of wounded soldiers. Cynthia Wachtell, a research associate professor of American studies at Yeshiva University, delved into La Mottes life and her powerful war writings. Her explosive book, The ...

Nurse and Spy is a captivating account of one womans extraordinary experiences as she served on the front lines of the Civil War. Over the course of two years, she not only nursed the wounded but also assumed the perilous role of a spy, infiltrating enemy lines in various disguises—successfully completing this hazardous mission eleven times without ever being detected. Her time in the “Secret Service” and her dedicated work in hospitals are filled with thrilling and poignant stories that bring to life the struggles and triumphs of those turbulent times. - Summary from the ...

Life and other stuff as lived through a Nursing lens.

Since the NHS was set up in 1948 thousands of women and men from Ireland have come to train and nurse in the UK. Recruitment drives throughout the 1950s and 60s saw NHS staff travel around Ireland to interview and sign up mainly Irish teenage girls for nurse training. Irish Nurses in the NHS shares the experiences and lives of nurses who travelled from Ireland and helped build the health service over these decades and beyond. In this series you'll hear from dozens of these nurses about their motivations to leave home, how they adapted to their new lives in Britain and what their ...

The amazing experiences of the Queen Alexandra nurses in the World Wars is one of the greatest adventure stories of modern times, and - incredibly - remains largely untold. Thousands of middle-class girls, barely out of school, were plucked from sheltered backgrounds, subjected to training regimes unimaginably tough by today's standards, and sent forth to share the harsh conditions of the fighting services.

Author NCR Davis (For the Boys -- The War Story of a Combat Nurse in Patton's Third Army) reads letters and service diary entries from Lt. Mary E. Balster, a nurse who will eventually find herself caring for the wounded and dying just behind the front lines of Patton's Third Army.