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A Noble Woman: The Life Story of Edith Cavell
Ernest Protheroe
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Edith L. Cavell was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Attempts to mount an appeal failed, and she was summarily executed within hours of the sentence by a German firing squad. Publication of the news prompted spontaneous grief and worldwide condemnation. Many memorials were created around the world, including a statue adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London. --Adapted from Wikipedia
Edith L. Cavell was a British nurse who attended to soldiers of both sides during World War I, and helped some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium, for which she was arrested, court-martialed, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Attempts to mount an appeal failed, and she was summarily executed within hours of the sentence by a German firing squad. Publication of the news prompted spontaneous grief and worldwide condemnation. Many memorials were created around the world, including a statue adjacent to Trafalgar Square in London. --Adapted from Wikipedia
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Inspired in her perilous work by the dictates of purest humanity, which has been the glory of women of all nations in all ages, she boldly avowed to her accusers that she had nothing to conceal. The last thing to have entered her mind would have been to attempt to mitigate her offence by lying; she would not even palter with disingenuousness. Not only did she admit the charges against her, but she related incidents about which her inquisitors had but the most fragmentary particulars, or even only flimsy suspicions. She did not hesitate to supply dates and details for which the spies had sought in vain.
It is impossible to tell when Miss Cavell first became aware that a considerable number of her friends . . . Read More
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Community Reviews
First published 1916, and Edith Cavell having been executed on October 12, 1915, this book is valuable in that it is contemporary to the event. Unfortunately I found this book a rather choppily written narrative; it oscillates between simple sentences and heavily verbose prose, which I found a bit o
Interesting story, eye opening.
This book was interesting enough but I expected it to have more information about Edith Cavell. Less than half the book was information about her and the rest of the book were newspaper or magazine articles written about her death. While it was interesting to read, I would have liked to hear more ab
3 1/2 stars. Have known Edith Cavell's name (namesake for a glacier in western Canada!), but didn't know her story of helping Allied soldiers escape German-occupied Belgium in WWI. A British nurse there, she reportedly cared for soldiers of both sides indiscriminately, yet she was executed by the Ka