Edith Cavell; nurse, spy, heroine
By: by Adele De Leeuw. Illustrated by Charles Brey.
Contributors: Brey, Charles, illus.
Series: Spies of the world
Publisher: Putnam
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915 -- Juvenile literature.; Cavell, Edith, 1865-1915.; Women spies -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Nurses -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Description: A biography of the English nurse who used her directorship of a nursing school and clinic in Belgium during World War I as a front to aid the escape of Allied soldiers from German occupied territory, an act for which the Germans executed her as a spy.