The Resource The shattered tree, Charles Todd
The shattered tree, Charles Todd
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- Summary
- At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't British - he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German. When Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasy - and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris, it's up to Bess - a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse - to find out why, even at the risk of her own life
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062386274
- Label
- The shattered tree
- Title
- The shattered tree
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Todd
- Subject
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- trueSoldiers
- trueWar wounds
- World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
- trueWorld War I
- trueCrawford, Bess (Fictitious character)
- Crawford, Bess (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueDetermination in women
- trueElectronic books
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th Century
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th century
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueLoyalty
- Mystery fiction
- trueNurses
- Nurses -- England -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- At the foot of a tree shattered by shelling and gunfire, stretcher-bearers find an exhausted officer, shivering with cold and a loss of blood from several wounds. The soldier is brought to battlefield nurse Bess Crawford's aid station, where she stabilizes him and treats his injuries before he is sent to a rear hospital. The odd thing is, the officer isn't British - he's French. But in a moment of anger and stress, he shouts at Bess in German. When Bess reports the incident to Matron, her superior offers a ready explanation. The soldier is from Alsace-Lorraine, a province in the west where the tenuous border between France and Germany has continually shifted through history, most recently in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, won by the Germans. But is the wounded man Alsatian? And if he is, on which side of the war do his sympathies really lie? Of course, Matron could be right, but Bess remains uneasy - and unconvinced. If he was a French soldier, what was he doing so far from his own lines . . . and so close to where the Germans are putting up a fierce, last-ditch fight? When the French officer disappears in Paris, it's up to Bess - a soldier's daughter as well as a nurse - to find out why, even at the risk of her own life
- Award
- Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mary Higgins Clark Award, 2017.
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10513229
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Todd, Charles
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Bess Crawford mysteries
- Series volume
- 8
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Crawford, Bess (Fictitious character)
- Nurses
- World War, 1914-1918
- Target audience
- general
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- a Bess Crawford mystery
- Label
- The shattered tree, Charles Todd
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062386274
- Lccn
- 2016002845
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn938707638
- Label
- The shattered tree, Charles Todd
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 287 pages
- Isbn
- 9780062386274
- Lccn
- 2016002845
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)ocn938707638
Subject
- trueSoldiers
- trueWar wounds
- World War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction
- trueWorld War I
- trueCrawford, Bess (Fictitious character)
- Crawford, Bess (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery fiction
- trueDetermination in women
- trueElectronic books
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th Century
- trueFrance -- History -- 20th century
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- trueLoyalty
- Mystery fiction
- trueNurses
- Nurses -- England -- Fiction
- trueSecrets
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