The Legend of Edith Cavell

By Ranjit Jhuboo

In May of 2019, it will be 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 WWI broke out and a brutal martial law was imposed on the land, which interfered with her work. But in Edith Cavell all it did was 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 betrayed, court-martialed, then shot, but not before helping hundreds of men escape to neutral Holland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1546299971
• ISBN13: 9781546299974
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Authorhouse UK
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"