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Elsie (Paperback)
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Elsie (Paperback)
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List price R250
Loot Price R195
Discovery Miles 1 950
You Save R55 (22%)
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ELSIE is a riveting story told with gut-wrenching reality of a
woman's courage set against a torrid period in South African and
world history. Growing up in a small diamond-mining village near
Pretoria, South Africa, her secure, sheltered environment is shaken
with the return of the two men in her life from fighting in German
East Africa during the first World War ...a changed shell-shocked
boyfriend who commits suicide and an unemployed brother who becomes
involved in illicit diamond dealing with dire consequences. Rather
than indulge in self-pity she puts her strong pacifist feelings to
work by volunteering as a nurse at a military field hospital in
Belgium where she meets her husband to be and where exposure to the
horrors and futility of industrial warfare changes her worldview
and she joins with other women calling for universal suffrage.
After the war she is thrown into further conflict when her husband
is involved in the bloody confrontations of the 1922 miners' strike
in South Africa and she opens a care centre for abused women and
single pregnant mothers, giving them protection and hope of a
better future.
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