The backwash of war; the human wreckage of the battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse

Dr. La Motte was a medical corpsman who served in the battles of both World Wars. His experiences in the trenches of World War I were so important to him that he wrote about them, and his book, "Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse," was one of the first war memoirs published in America. A mother's fear of the unknown is depicted in this story written by a hospital Nurse on duty in an army hospital during World War II. The nurse is sent to Germany to help another woman who has lost her husband and baby child. Her husband was killed in action, but the baby survived. An unexpected meeting with a patient's husband leads her to resolve to find his wife and bring her home.