03068cam a2200337 4500 564416928 TxAuBib 20220428120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062472625 0062472623 29dc1939-a24b-47be-b132-7fa42145fd99 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 2516758 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Todd, Charles. The Shattered Tree [Libby] : Bess Crawford Mystery Series, Book 8. HarperAudio, 2016. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 264MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 264MB. Fiction. Mystery. Historical Fiction. HTML:<p>World War I battlefield nurse Bess Crawford goes to dangerous lengths to investigate a wounded soldier's background—and uncover his true loyalties—in this thrilling and atmospheric entry in the bestselling "vivid period mystery series" (New York Times Book Review).</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>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.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Edgar Allan Poe Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-26 20:00:03. Landor, Rosalyn. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/2516758-TheShatteredTree.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=29dc1939-a24b-47be-b132-7fa42145fd99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/0293-1/2516758-TheShatteredTree.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=29dc1939-a24b-47be-b132-7fa42145fd99&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)