The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts by Edith Cavell Committee - 1917

W. A. Butterworth. Poor with no dust jacket. 1917. Hardcover. Good reading copy. Subtitle: a Record of One Year's Personal Service With the British Expeditionary Force in France Boulogne-the Somme 1916-17, With an Account of the Imprisonment, Trial, & Death of Edith Cavell. Brown cloth boards. Heavy age spots and stains in the introductory pages up to page vii, rubbing to the extremities, former owner's name inside dated 1920, light marks on a few other pages. Ms Cavill, a British nurse, was the founder of modern nursing education in Belgium. Concealing French and English soldiers in her house, as well as Belgians of military age, she became part of a network of people arranging their escape. Miss Cavell was sentenced to death by the Germans for treason. The German military-chaplain who was with her at the end said "She died like a heroine..." 95 pages .