“Was it not all a dead-end occupation, nursing back to health men to be patched up and returned to the trenches, or a man to be patched up, court-martialled, and shot? The difference lay in the Ideal.” NursingWartimeIdeal Book:The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse Source: The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse