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Author: Christine Farenhorst

📘 A cup of cold water by Christine Farenhorst

Edith Farenhorst, the daughter of an English vicar, grows up in a life of service. After years as a governess, she trades education for healing, opening a nursing school in Belgium. When the Great War erupts, she joins the war effort, tending wounded soldiers on both sides. Edith’s deep compassion ultimately leads to her arrest for aiding the enemy, illustrating the moral complexity of wartime healthcare and the personal cost of humanitarian action.

First publish date: 2007

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Christine Farenhorst

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