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Edith Cavell helped over 200 men escape the First World War by giving them jobs in her hospital, finding clothing and organizing safe passage into Holland. This book provides a revealing insight into one of the Great War's finest heroes.
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Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk's Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe.
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'Affection and admiration radiate through this biography ... Shattering stuff' Sunday Telegraph. * Sunday Telegraph * 'Diana Souhami's wonderful new book on the renowned First World War nurse Edith Cavell does justice to her by sticking to the truth ... Souhami has done more to restore the elusive Cavell than any other biographer before her ... a picture of the kind of woman that once made Britain great' Amanda Foreman, Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday * 'An inspirational and humbling read' Daily Express. * Daily Express *
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- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1784291323
- ISBN 13 9781784291327
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Paperback. Condition: NEW. Paperback. Edith Cavell was born on 4th December 1865, daughter of the vicar of Swardeston in Norfolk, and shot in Brussels on 12th October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British and French soldiers and helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th-century England, Edith worked as a governess in the UK and abroad, before training as a nurse in London in 1895. To Edith, nursing was a duty, a vocation, but above all a service. By 1907, she had travelled most of Europe and become matron of her own hospital in Belgium, where, under her leadership, a ramshackle hospital with few staff and little organization became a model nursing school. When war broke out, Edith helped soldiers to escape the war by giving them jobs in her hospital, finding clothing and organizing safe passage into Holland. In all, she assisted over two hundred men. When her secret work was discovered, Edith was put on trial and sentenced to death by firing squad. She uttered only 130 words in her defence. A devout Christian, the evening before her death, she asked to be remembered as a nurse, not a hero or a martyr, and prayed to be fit for heaven. When news of Edith's death reached Britain, army recruitment doubled. After the war, Edith's body was returned to the UK by train and every station through which the coffin passed was crowded with mourners. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great War's finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking, courageous and independent woman. A revealing insight into the remarkable life of the First World War heroine who saved hundreds of lives. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781784291327
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