Raquela

Disponibilité:
Ebook en format EPUB. Disponible pour téléchargement immédiat après la commande.

Protection:
Filigrane

Année de parution:
2010

ISBN-13: 9781453206102

<DIV><P><B>A National Jewish Book Award&ndash;winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel&rsquo;s statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.</B></P><DIV><P>During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish state.</P></DIV><DIV><I>Raquela</I> is a moving tribute to a remarkable woman, and an unforgettable chronicle of the birth of Israel through the eyes of those who lived it.</DIV></DIV>