At Midnight in a Flaming Town.
Title:
At Midnight in a Flaming Town.
Author:
Bateman, Lorraine.
ISBN:
9781849408776
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (516 pages)
Series:
The Karnac Library
Contents:
Cover -- Copy Right -- I HAVE A RENDEZVOUS WITH DEATH -- 25TH AUGUST 1914 LEUVEN, BELGIUM -- 25th August 1914 Leuven, Belgium Therese -- One month earlier, 26th July 1914 Leuven, Belgium Russell -- 28th July 1914 Brussels Marion -- 1st August 1914 Leuven Russell -- 1st August 1914 Norfolk, England Edith -- 2nd August 1914 Brussels Russell -- 2nd August 1914 Brussels Marion -- 3rd August 1914 Brussels Russell -- That Evening 3rd August 1914 Russell -- 4th August 1914 Brussels Marion and Russell -- 12th August 1914 Leuven Therese -- 16th August 1914 Brussels Russell -- 17th August 1914 Brussels Marion -- 19th August 1914 Leuven Therese -- 20th August 1914 Brussels Marion -- 23rd August 1914 Mons, Belgium Private Culloch, British Expeditionary Force -- 24th August 1914 Mons Private Samuel Elliott, British Expeditionary Force -- 25th August 1914 Leuven Therese -- 29th August 1914 Brussels Marion -- 9th September 1914 Leuven Therese -- 17th September 1914 St. Waast, near Mons Isabelle -- 3rd October 1914 Brussels Russell -- 3rd October 1914 Brussels Marion -- 22nd October 1914 Forest of Mormal Isabelle -- 22nd October 1914 Leuven Therese -- 22nd October 1914 Forest of Mormal Isabelle -- 1st November 1914 Brussels Marion -- 3rd November 1914 Brussels Russell -- 3rd November 1914 Bellignies Isabelle -- 3rd November 1914 Brussels Marion -- 4th November 1914 Brussels Russell -- 14th November 1914 Brussels Marion -- 20th November 1914 Isabelle -- 23rd April 1915 Brussels Russell -- 26th April 1915 Brussels Therese -- 28th April 1915 Brussels Marion -- 2nd May 1915 Brussels Marion -- 7th May 1915 Brussels Therese -- 8th May 1915 Brussels Russell -- 27th May 1915 Brussels Marion -- 4th June 1915 Brussels Russell -- 4th June 1915 Brussels Russell and Marion -- AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: FICTION FROM FACT.
Abstract:
It is 1914 and life has changed dramatically for the people of Belgium. The advancing German military, delayed by a valiant Belgian Army, take out their frustrations on innocent civilians. Shockwaves reverberate around Europe.In the chaotic early days of occupation, events conspire to draw together three very different people. Their destinies become entwined with nurse Edith Cavell and lead inexorably to a dramatic conclusion.The authors have drawn from first-hand accounts to create a powerful story which brings these tumultuous times alive.In Brussels, at the outset of the First World War, the lives of a British nurse, an American student, and a young nun are drawn together under the duress of German occupation.The authors trace the fortunes of civilians who find themselves enduring an increasingly vengeful invasion of Belgium as an impatient German Army hastens to break through to Paris. Fugitive soldiers, left behind enemy lines by their own retreating armies, try to slip home, assisted by brave local citizens who, in so doing, risk their own lives.Whether military or non-combatant, people find themselves in new relationships and, with tension and danger mounting, they have their beliefs challenged and loyalties tested.This stirring account is loosely based on biographies of people caught up in the drama of this time, including Edith Cavell who became the most celebrated woman of the war.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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