The Rivers of Eden
I am still rewriting “From Eden to Babylon” which I retrieved from the publishers and it will join my other self-published books. The above is the new title.
I am adding a new chapter which includes the story of the extraordinary English nurse Edith Cavell, who helped so many wounded British and French soldiers escape from German occupied Brussels in WW1 in 1914/1915. She was running a training school there and her high standards were recognised around the world, so much so that mothers were queuing to place their daughters under her care and instruction.
Edith arranged for many of the men to escape over the border into neutral Holland and she was finally apprehended by the Germans. To the horror and disgust of millions, She was shot by firing squad. This appalling event probably finally persuaded the US to support their allies and join the conflict, bringing the worlds worst war to an earlier conclusion.
Needless to say one of my protagonists was a nurse at Edith’s School in Brussels……
“Of the human heart that dares adventure all
But live to itself untrue,
And beyond all laws sees love as the light in the night,
As the star it must answer to.”
Laurence Binyon