The Essay - Episode 3
The final run of Essays in the long-running series which explores the impact of the First World War on individual artists through the prism of a single great work of art.
3.Jane Potter on The Forbidden Zone, a depiction of nursing life at the Front by Mary Borden.
Mary Borden was an Anglo-American novelist who served for four years as a nurse in a military hospital at the Front.
Jane Potter celebrates a work which, like those of Sassoon, Graves, and Remarque, vividly depicts the horror of the Trenches and yet is far less well known.
Producer; Beaty Rubens.
Published on Wednesday, 7th November 2018.
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