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Book Edith Cavell

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.

Book Fatal Decision

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  • Author : Terri Arthur
  • Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
  • Release : 2014-10-15
  • ISBN : 9781595983541
  • Pages : 0 pages

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.

Book The Legend of Edith Cavell

Download or read book The Legend of Edith Cavell written by Ranjit Jhuboo and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May of 2019, it was a hundred years since the remains of Edith Cavell were brought back to England from Belgium to be given a proper burial—one deserving of a war heroine. Edith Cavell was unique in many ways. She was a Victorian girl raised in a strictly devout Christian family who lived their lives according to the Scriptures. They cared for the welfare of others and regularly gave alms to the poor. Nursing, therefore, became a natural career choice for her and her sisters. An excellent nurse, she was invited to Belgium to modernize the nursing system. But then World War I broke out and a brutal martial law was imposed on the land, which severely interfered with her project. But in Edith Cavell all it did was to bring out her innate humanitarian instincts. Righteous and fearless, she defied the ruthless German military and joined an underground movement, and used her hospital to nurse and hide Allied soldiers who were wounded or had become detached from their regiments, men who would have been shot if caught. Eventually, she was arrested, incarcerated, court-martialled, and then executed by a firing squad; but not before helping hundreds of men escape to neutral Holland. Katie Pickles, in her book, Transnational Outrage: The Death and Commemoration of Edith Cavell, describes her killing as ‘one of the most famous atrocities of the Great War.’

Book Edith Cavell and her Legend

Download or read book Edith Cavell and her Legend written by Christine E. Hallett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-23 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the myriad identities and portrayals of Edith Cavell, as they have been constructed and handed down by propagandists, biographers and artists. Cavell was first introduced to the British public through a series of Foreign Office statements which claimed to establish the “facts” of her case. Her own voice, along with those of her family, colleagues and friends, were muted, as a monolithic image of a national heroine and martyr emerged. The book identifies two main areas of tension in her commemoration: firstly, the contrast between complexity of her own behaviour and motivations and the simplicity of the “Cavell Legend” that was constructed around her; and, secondly, the mismatch between the attempts of individuals and professional organisations to commemorate her life and work, and the public construction of a “heroine” who could be of value to the nation state.

Book A Noble Woman

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  • Author : Ernest Protheroe
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1916
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book A Noble Woman written by Ernest Protheroe and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edith Cavell

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  • Author : Edith Cavell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1915
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Edith Cavell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book No Regrets

Download or read book No Regrets written by Carolyn Burke and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edith Piaf was one of the most greatly loved singers of the twentieth century. From the start of her exceptional career in the 1930s, her waif-like form and heart-wrenching voice endeared her first to the French, then to audiences around the globe. As she moved from her youth singing in the streets to the glamour of the Paris music-halls, Piaf formed lasting friendships with such figures as Maurice Chevalier, Jean Cocteau and Marlene Dietrich; she wrote many of her own songs, aided the Resistance in the Second World War, and mentored younger singers like Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour. Yet her path to stardom was full of tragedies - the death of her daughter in infancy; the death of Marcel Cerdan, her greatest love, in a plane crash; her many illnesses, affairs and addictions, all of which nourished her passionate performances and strengthened her enduring bond with audiences. In this mesmerising, definitive new biography Carolyn Burke gives us Piaf in her own time and place, illuminating through sympathetic readings of sources hitherto unavailable both the charm and the pathos of the 'Little Sparrow' who enchanted generations and still enthralls us today.

Book Edith Cavell  Her Life Story  a Norfolk Tribute

Download or read book Edith Cavell Her Life Story a Norfolk Tribute written by Herbert Leeds and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Edith Cavell

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  • Author : Jenny Phillips
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-15
  • ISBN : 9781951097394
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Story of Edith Cavell written by Jenny Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Friend Within the Gates  The Story of Edith Cavell

Download or read book Friend Within the Gates The Story of Edith Cavell written by Elizabeth GREY (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book EDITH CAVELL  HER LIFE STORY

Download or read book EDITH CAVELL HER LIFE STORY written by HERBERT. LEEDS and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Noble Woman the Life Story of Edith Cavell

Download or read book A Noble Woman the Life Story of Edith Cavell written by Protheroe Ernest and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book Lindell s List

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  • Author : Peter Hore
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2016-09-05
  • ISBN : 0750969458
  • Pages : 345 pages

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.

Book A Cup of Cold Water

Download or read book A Cup of Cold Water written by Christine Farenhorst and published by P & R Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book One of Ours

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  • Author : Willa Cather
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 1960
  • ISBN : 1442934379
  • Pages : 382 pages

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:

Book The Story of Edith Cavell     Illustrated by Gerald McCann

Download or read book The Story of Edith Cavell Illustrated by Gerald McCann written by Iris Vinton and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Edith Cavell  Her Life Story  Classic Reprint

Download or read book Edith Cavell Her Life Story Classic Reprint written by Herbert Leeds and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-07-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edith Cavell, Her Life Story Dear Madam, By command of the King and Queen I write to assure you that the hearts of their Majesties go out to you in your bitter sorrow, and to express their horror at the appalling deed which has