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The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts
de Edith Cavell Committee
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Poor with no dust jacket
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Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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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 .
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- Librería
- Bookshop Baltimore
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 13509
- Título
- The Edith Cavell Nurse from Massachusetts
- Autor
- Edith Cavell Committee
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Poor with no dust jacket
- Editorial
- W. A. Butterworth
- Fecha de publicación
- 1917
- Palabras clave
- Biography -- Nurses, Edith Cavell (1865 - 1910), War Martyr, World War I -- 1914-1918, Personal Narratives, Military Trials, Women Killed By Firing Squads, German Military, Red Cross -- History
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography;
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- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
