Ellen La Motte wrote The Backwash of War in 1916. Years later H. L. Mencken, the influential journalist and critic, would call it “the most horrible war book ever written.” (National Archives, Johns Hopkins University Press)
Ellen La Motte wrote The Backwash of War in 1916. Years later H. L. Mencken, the influential journalist and critic, would call it “the most horrible war book ever written.” (National Archives, Johns Hopkins University Press)