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'Deeply regret to inform you that Miss Edith Cavell has been executed by German authorities on charge of assisting escape of British soldiers. She has died as she lived devoted to the service of her country.'Edith Cavell was a pioneering nurse who became, tragically, a war hero. On 20 August 1914, she watched as fifty thousand German soldiers marched into Brussels. Nothing in her Victorian upbringing as the vicar's daughter in a small Norfolk village, nor in her nursing career, had prepared her for the subversion of her new life as a resistance worker. This moving and elegant biography draws on the qualities of altruism, devotion and bravery that sustained her throughout her remarkable life.ISBN:9781849163613
