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Edith Cavell - Nurse, Martyr, Heroine (Paperback, Re-issue)
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Edith Cavell - Nurse, Martyr, Heroine (Paperback, Re-issue)
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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.
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