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Edith Cavell was a nurse who helped hundreds of British soldiers escape the Germans through the Belgian underground during World War II. Her later arrest and execution by the Germans caused an uproar around the world.
Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,98 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781595985200
Edith Cavell was a nurse who helped hundreds of British soldiers escape the Germans through the Belgian underground during World War II. Her later arrest and execution by the Germans caused an uproar around the world.
Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781595983541
Originally published: Beagle Books, 2011. British edition published with the title Fatal destiny: Edith Cavell, World War I nurse.
Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : riverrun
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1849166803
Edith Cavell was born in 1865, daughter of a Norfolk vicar, and shot in Brussels on 12 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. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great War's finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking, courageous and independent woman.
Author : Alison S. Fell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1108425763
The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.
Author : Stephanie Bearce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000490068
Flame throwers, spy trees, bird bombs, and Hell Fighters were all a part of World War I, but you won't learn that in your history books! Uncover long-lost secrets of spies like Howard Burnham, “The One-Legged Wonder,” and nurse-turned-spy, Edith Cavell. Peek into secret files to learn the truth about the Red Baron and the mysterious Mata Hari. Then learn how to build your own Zeppelin balloon and mix up some invisible ink. It's all part of the true stories from the Top Secret Files: World War I. Take a look if you dare, but be careful! Some secrets are meant to stay hidden . . . Ages 9-12
Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : Macmillan Audio
Page : pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781427212672
In love we find out who we want to be. In war we find out who we are. FRANCE, 1939 In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn't believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When a German captain requisitions Vianne's home, she and her daughter must live with the enemy or lose everything. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates all around them, she is forced to make one impossible choice after another to keep her family alive. Vianne's sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. But when he betrays her, Isabelle joins the Resistance and never looks back, risking her life time and again to save others. With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.
Author : Christine Farenhorst
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781596380264
Born in 1865 to an English vicar and his wife, Edith becomes a governess, then at the age of thirty a nurse, opening a nursing school in Belgium and serving there during World War I, when her compassion leads to her arrest for aiding the enemy.
Author : Sebastian Rizzo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781737562115
Night and Fog is the intriguing story of the women and men of the Comète underground who rescued Allied airmen throughout WWII. Matching wits against the German Gestapo, they withstood ambushes, betrayals, tortures, executions and the horrors of Nazi death camps. And it all began with Dédée, a fiery twenty-four-year-old Belgian girl, who had the guts to fight back.
Author : Ethel Herr
Publisher : P & R Publishing
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780875526416
In 1567, at the advent of the Eighty Years' War, eleven-year-old Maria and her family flee the Low Countries because of their religious beliefs and go to Dillenburg, Germany, where Maria begins training with her Oma in the healing art of herbs.
Author : Amy Laundrie
Publisher : Three Towers Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 2022-03-31
Category :
ISBN : 9781595988935
Ex-best friends Annie and Mirra are shipwrecked and must try to survive on a remote island near Nova Scotia inhabited only by wild horses-or that's what the fourteen-year-old girls think at first. Then they discover warm embers and strange footprints.