Edith Cavell, Nurse Hero

Edith Cavell, Nurse HeroDescription By Terri Arthur Paperback Edith Cavell, a British nurse, was always interested in caring for others. When she was asked to set up the very first nurses training school in Belgium, she jumped at the chance. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Edith had to make a decision. Should she help the Belgian Underground rescue Allied soldiers from the brutal German army, or follow the law? Edith was smart and determined with an unbreakable

the Allied nations of Britain

and Congress

The colonel saw action in two of the most important campaigns the Americans fought

For the next half century

” from the rebellions of black draftees in French and American ports to the mutiny of Army Regulars in Houston

Proctor examines in lucid and evocative detail the role of experts in the war

to see the end of the First World War

A xenophobic fervor swept through the state at an alarming rate

Germany’s fighter pilots arguably became the ‘rock stars’ of the Great War – flamboyant characters flying brightly-painted and often technologically advanced machines

As Emily learns more about the volatile power of healing with herbs

who shared with him at the last possible moment their stories of America’s Great War

often nightmarish setting