Edith Cavell

Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781595983541
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Diana Souhami
Publisher : Quercus
ISBN 13 : 1623652391
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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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 616 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.

Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781595983428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Christine E. Hallett
Publisher : Palgrave Pivot
ISBN 13 : 9781137543707
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Cavell and her Legend written by Christine E. Hallett and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 0 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.

Author : Ernest Protheroe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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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:

Author : Christine Farenhorst
Publisher : P & R Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781596380264
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Terri Arthur
Publisher : Henschelhaus Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781595985200
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Christine E. Hallett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113754371X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Catherine Butcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857216571
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edith Cavell written by Catherine Butcher and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An arresting short biography from the perspective of Edith Cavell's faith. Her execution in October 1915 caused international outcry.

Author : Ranjit Jhuboo
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546299963
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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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.’