The Swiss nurse : a novel
(Book)

Includes discussion questions.

Includes bibliographical references (page 329).

"The true story of an astonishingly brave woman who saved hundreds of mothers and their children during the Spanish Civil War and WWII"--,Provided by publisher.

"January 1939. Isabel Duęas, pregnant and alone, is desperate to escape her beloved Barcelona when its invaded by Franco's troops at the end of the Spanish Civil War. After marching for days in the dead of winter, Isabel eventually crosses the border into France and stumbles, weak and afraid for her baby, to an abandoned manor thats been converted into a maternity ward just outside Elne, France. There, she gives birth to a daughter and vows to stay with The Mothers of Elne and assist the Swiss nurse who saved herElisabeth Eidenbenz. But even as the civil war on one side comes to a brutal end, rumors of a second war brew from the north. Elisabeth and Isabel are forced to take increasingly dangerous risks to protect the mothers and children under their care from the Nazis and the Vichy regime" --,Goodreads.