Complex sentence: Hilde reveals that she had always wanted to be a nurse; however her dreams of a nursing career were shattered the day her village was bombed during air raids; she watched her brother Stephen die as she was swallowed by mounds of earth.
Split into simpler sentences: Hilde reveals that she had always wanted to be a nurse, however her dreams of a nursing career were shattered the day her village was bombed during air raids. She had watched her brother Stephen die as she was swallowed by mounds of earth.