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The shattered tree, Charles Todd

Label
The shattered tree
Title
The shattered tree
Statement of responsibility
Charles Todd
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
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
Member of
Tone
Writing style
Award
Edgar Allan Poe Awards: Mary Higgins Clark Award, 2017.
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10513229
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Todd, Charles
Index
no index present
Literary form
novels
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True
Series statement
Bess Crawford mysteries
Series volume
8
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  • Crawford, Bess (Fictitious character)
  • Nurses
  • World War, 1914-1918
Target audience
general
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a Bess Crawford mystery
Label
The shattered tree, Charles Todd
Instantiates
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • 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
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)ocn938707638
Label
The shattered tree, Charles Todd
Publication
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • 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
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)ocn938707638

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