Edith Cavell
Nurse, Martyr, Heroine
$45.66
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
10 August 2015
Summary
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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784291327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784291323 |
| Author: | Diana Souhami |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Release Date: | 10 August 2015 |
| Weight: | 438g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 39mm |
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‘Affection and admiration radiate through this biography … Shattering stuff’ - Sunday Telegraph
‘An inspirational and humbling read’ - Daily Express‘Diana Souhami’s wonderful new book on the renowned First World War nurse Edith Cavelldoes justice to her by sticking to the truth … Souhami has done more to restore the elusiveCavell than any other biographer before her … a picture of the kind of woman that once madeBritain great.’ - Mail on SundayAbout The Author
Diana Souhami
Diana Souhami is the author of many widely acclaimed books, and she has also written plays for radio and television. She won the Whitbread Biography Award for Selkirk’s Island, her biography of Alexander Selkirk, or as he is better known, Robinson Crusoe.
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