The second (and final) part of my Edith Cavell series.
Summer of 1914, WWI has begun. Edith leaves the safety of England to rush back to her nursing school in Brussels where she has been head matron for 8 years. Operating under the Red Cross she expects to treat wounded soldiers on both sides but the German army has other plans...Taking over the city of Brussels they will open their own hospitals to treat their own wounded. Meanwhile, allied soldiers left behind enemy lines face either death or POW camps.
When the laws imposed upon a people rely on inhumanity, a simple act of kindness also becomes an act of resistance.
Unable to treat the wounded Edith is now called to another purpose to save the lives of these men. Working with an underground network she will shelter allied troops being smuggled out of the country. Her devotion to helping others will ultimately come at the cost of her own life.
Listen now for the story of Edith Cavell's bravery, her arrest, mock trial and hasty execution as well as the complicated legacy of propaganda created from her death.
