The Backwash of War

''War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side. I must write you of what I have seen, the other side, the backwash.''
Ellen La Motte, Volunteer Nurse, 4 May 1916

The ''backwash'' of Ellen La Motte''s controversial book are the dirty, smelly, lice an...