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

This war has been described as «Months of boredom, punctuated by moments of intense fright.» The writer of these sketches has experienced many «months of boredom,» in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. During these months, the lines have not moved, either forward or backward, but have remained dead-locked, in one position. Undoubtedly, up and down the long-reaching kilometres of «Front» there has been action, and &laquo