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100 _aTodd, Charles.
245 _aA duty to the dead
260 _aNew York :
_bWilliam Morrow.
_c7/15/2011
300 _a329 p. ; 24 cm.
500 _aIndependent-minded Bess Crawford's upbrining is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman. At the outbreak of WWI, she volunteers for the nursing corps, serving from the battlefields of France to the doomed hospital ship Britannic. On one voyage, she promises to a deliver a message from a dying officer to his brother. Once she's able to do so, she's disturbed
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650 _aNurses -- England -- Fiction.
650 _aWorld War, 1914-1918 -- England -- Fiction.
852 _oF TOD
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