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Transnational Outrage

The execution of British matron Edith Cavell in Belgium by the occupying German forces was portrayed by the Allied cause as one of the key atrocities of the Great War. This book recovers and interprets the reaction to Cavell's death, exploring its contextual relationship within imperial and international history.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

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