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

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