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Edith Cavell

Edith Cavell: nurse, martyr, and spy? | Vanessa Heggie | Science | The Guardian
100 years ago today Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad for smuggling Allied soldiers out of occupied Belgium. Vanessa Heggie explains how a nurse became a spy

(thanks to Dawn Marie for sending this in!)

(article via Project Gutenberg’s Facebook page)

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