The Forbidden Zone

First published in 1929, and now public domain in the US and Canada, ''The Forbidden Zone'' is a nurse's impressions of the First World War. Mary Borden worked for four years in an evacuation hospital unit following the front lines up and down the European theater of the First World War. This beautifully written book, to be read alongside the likes of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, is a collection of her memories and impressions of that experience. Describing the men as they march into battle, engaging imaginatively with the stories of individual soldiers, and recounting procedures at the field hospital, the author offers a perspective on the war that is not only rare but both powerful and intimate.