Edith Cavell - Diana Souhami

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Résumé :
A revealing insight into the remarkable life of the First World War heroine who saved hundreds of lives, told by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers.

Biographie:
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.

Sommaire:
Part One: Birth; The Vicar's Daughter; Growing Up; School; The English Governess; A German Summer; The Belgian Governess. Part Two: No Hospital Training; The Fever Nurse; The Probationer; Maidstone; Back to The London; Mellish Ward; The Infirmaries; A Holiday. Part Three: Setting Up; The School Goes On; Family Life; Fresh Efforts in the Good Cause; War Declared. Part Four: The Arrival of the Enemy; Occupation; The Lost Children; Yorc; My Darling Mother; The Men Who Died in Swathes; Christmas 1914; Organisation; The Men She Helped; Watched; Arrest. Part Five: First Interrogation; Between Interrogations; The Others; The Escape of the Prince de Croy; The Second Interrogation; Solitary Confinement; The Efforts of the Others; The Trial - Thursday 7 October; The Trial - Friday 8 October; Saturday 9 October; Sunday 10 October; Monday 11 October - Day; Monday 11 October - Evening; Monday 11 October - Night; What Was Left of the Night; Tuesday 12 October - Day. Part Six: The Remains of the Day and the Following Days; Propaganda; German Reaction; No Monuments; Endgame; Remembered. Notes and Index: Notes; Books and electronic sources; Acknowledgements; Index.