Download or read book Edith Cavell Nurse Hero written by Terri Arthur and published by Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Diana Souhami and published by Quercus. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 defense. 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.
Download or read book Fatal Decision written by Terri Arthur and published by Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Beagle Books, 2011. British edition published with the title Fatal destiny: Edith Cavell, World War I nurse.
Download or read book Women as Veterans in Britain and France after the First World War written by Alison S. Fell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legacies service in the First World War had on women's lives and the privileges it afforded some of them.
Download or read book Fatal Destiny written by Terri Arthur and published by Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on the US edition, originally published by Beagle Books, LLC, under ISBN 978-09841813-2-2"--Title page verso.
Download or read book Top Secret Files written by Stephanie Bearce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Stepping into the Sun written by Mark Heidenstam and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-08-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hart, a fortysomething Norfolk school teacher, has sought solace in drink as he sees his life start to unravel. He suspects, with good reason, he is about to lose out on a promotion to a younger colleague who is assumed to be sleeping with his wife. And one night, driving home drunk from a village pub, he knocks down and kills an old man fleeing from a nearby mental hospital. To avoid blame Hart hides the body in a roadside culvert, but guilt forces him to learn the identity and background of his victim, so he can make some kind of amends. On a visit to the mental hospital he discovers clues to a decades-old mystery somehow involving the inmate, prompting him to sever all ties with his previously cloistered existence. Adopting the role of Percival, the holy fool of legend charged with finding a redeeming relic, Hart’s journey takes him very far from Norfolk, into Sweden’s sub-arctic wilderness and to one of the continent’s forbidden places. And also back to that darkest of times, when the world was at war and aflame. But if the man he killed had been driven mad by his part in creating this mystery, so Hart is in danger of becoming just as deranged. He has gone beyond needing simply to atone for a single death. He is now on a mission to rekindle what in his increasing obsession he believes is nothing less than the light of the world.
Download or read book The Gobblin Goblin written by Lavona Thorndyke Roush and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you have ever misplaced something, but are sure you left it just there... it may be that your home has a Gobblin' Goblin! This mischievous, almost invisible creature, with an elephant-like nose and eyes in the back of his head, likes to take your everyday things and hide them where you least expect them. This is a lovely story created by Lavona Thorndyke Roush for her grandchildren many years ago when they complained that their toys were missing. She then applied it to her husband when he complained of losing his eyeglasses and car keys. Finally illustrated and published when she was in her eighties, it is an enduring tale of a grandmother who is "just a little bit different" and who entertains with stories at the same time she makes a point. If you are a "just a little bit different," or have children or grandchildren who are always "losing" things, then this is the perfect gift for them. After all, they might have a Gobblin' Goblin roaming around their home, too!
Download or read book One of Ours written by Willa Cather and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 1960 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Juliette Elkon Hamelecourt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the martyred English nurse.
Download or read book Lindell s List written by Peter Hore and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already a decorated heroine of the First World War, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colourful and courageous agents of the Second World War, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith Cavell, and taking the German occupation of Paris in 1940 as a personal affront, she led an escape line for patriotic Frenchmen and British soldiers. After imprisonment, escape to England, a secret return to France and another arrest, she began to witness the horrors of German-run prisons and concentration camps. In April 1945, a score of British and American women emerged from the Women's Hell – Ravensbrück concentration camp – who had been kept alive by the willpower and the strength of one woman, Mary Lindell. She combined a passion for adventure with blunt speech and persistently displayed the greatest personal bravery in the face of great adversity. To counter German claims that they had no British or American prisoners, Mary smuggled out a plea for rescue and produced her list from her pinafore pocket, compiled in secret from the camp records. This vital list contained the names of captured women, many of whom were agents of British Military Intelligence, the Special Operations Executive or the French Resistance. Poignantly supported by first-hand testimony, Lindell's List tells the moving story of Mary Lindell's heroic leadership and the endurance of a group of women who defied the Nazis in the Second World War.
Download or read book Dr Oma written by Ethel Herr and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Our Place in the Forest PB written by Darlene Radcliff and published by Radiant Heart Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Margaret s War written by Bill Stokes and published by Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret's War uses 15-year-old narrator Billy to juggle the broken heart, the trampled soul, and the fragile sanity of a beautiful young woman when male egos grab and grope at her with the absurd hands of war. The isolated small town where Billy and Margaret live is suddenly thrust into the brutal reality of World War II when German POWs are brought in to help with crop harvesting. The face-to-face contact with the killers of their sons is not only beyond the capacities of Gold Star mothers, but twists the thinking of everyone, including Margaret, who is determined to challenge fate. That challenge gets Margaret, Billy, and his outrageous older friend and mentor Cy immersed in a women-empowering scheme to turn war on its historical head. The forces of Nature and the contrariness of human nature conspire to bury their efforts in a merciless avalanche of such depravity that their very survival is threatened. The issues of war veterans as stooges, the fall of racist innocence, and God's role in war are among the things that Margaret, Billy, and Cy must step around as they go for broke with a plan that tries to enlist the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. What finally happens is as unpredictable as to where Billy's beloved dog Toby will next mark his territory.
Download or read book Stranded on Castaway Island written by Amy Laundrie and published by Three Towers Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Female Intelligence written by Tammy M Proctor and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Germans invaded her small Belgian village in 1914, Marthe Cnockaert’s home was burned and her family separated. After getting a job at a German hospital, and winning the Iron Cross for her service to the Reich, she was approached by a neighbor and invited to become an intelligence agent for the British. Not without trepidation, Cnockaert embarked on a career as a spy, providing information and engaging in sabotage before her capture and imprisonment in 1916. After the war, she was paid and decorated by a grateful British government for her service. Cnockaert’s is only one of the surprising and gripping stories that comprise Female Intelligence. This is the first history of the female spies who served Britain during World War I, focusing on both the powerful cultural images of these women and the realities, challenges, and contradictions of intelligence service. Between the founding of modern British intelligence organizations in 1909 and the demobilization of 1919, more than 6,000 women served the British government in either civil or military occupations as members of the intelligence community. These women performed a variety of services, and they represented an astonishing diversity of nationality, age, and class. From Aphra Behn, who spied for the British government in the seventeenth century, to the most well known example, Mata Hari, female spies have a long history, existing in juxtaposition to the folkloric notion of women as chatty, gossipy, and indiscreet. Using personal accounts, letters, official documents and newspaper reports, Female Intelligence interrogates different, and apparently contradictory, constructions of gender in the competing spheres of espionage activity.
Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Juliette Elkon and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the martyred English nurse.
