Author: Ed Klekowski
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786472553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony which included representatives of American companies, artists, writers and diplomats with the American Legation. After the invasion, American journalists and adventurers flocked there to follow the action; military restrictions on travel were less stringent than in England or France. As the most industrialized country in Europe, Belgium depended upon trade and food imports to support its economy. The war isolated Belgium and wholesale starvation was imminent by the fall of 1914. Herbert Hoover and his Commission for Relief in Belgium raised funds to purchase and import food to sustain Belgium and, eventually, Occupied France as well. Idealistic American volunteers (including some Rhodes scholars) supervised food distribution in the occupation zone. Along the Western Front in Belgium, hundreds of Americans served (illegally) in the British and Canadian armies. This book tells the story of the German invasion, occupation and retreat from the perspective of Americans who were there.
Author: Jeffrey B. Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990689386
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 726
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During WWI (1914-1918), the American-led Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food relief program the world had ever seen. The CRB and its Belgian counterpart, the Comite National (CN), fed for four years nearly 10 million Belgians and northern French trapped behind German lines. Young, idealistic Americans volunteered to go into German-occupied Belgium to guarantee the relief food would not be taken by the Germans. These humanitarian crusaders had to maintain strict neutrality as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regime. WWI Crusaders is the first nonfiction book for general readers that tells in one volume the interlacing stories of German brutality, Belgian resistance, and the young Americans who went into German-occupied Belgium. The book covers August 1914 through May 1917, when the last Americans had to leave Belgium because of America's April entry into the war.It is a story few have heard.
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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A seventeen-volume compilation of selected AEF records gathered by Army historians during the interwar years. This collection in no way represents an exhaustive record of the Army's months in France, but it is certainly worthy of serious consideration and thoughtful review by students of military history and strategegy and will serve as a useful jumping off point for any earnest scholarship on the war. --from Foreword by William A Stofft.
Author: Jeff Miller
Publisher: Jbm Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780990689300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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During WWI, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food and relief drive the world had ever known. Working in concert with its counterpart in Belgium, the Comité National, the CRB fed and clothed for four years more than 9 million Belgians and northern French trapped behind German lines. Because the United States had declared its neutrality at the start of the war, young idealistic Americans volunteered to be CRB delegates and go into German-occupied Belgium to guarantee the imported food would not be taken by the Germans. The interlacing stories of German brutality, Belgian resistance, and the Americans of the CRB, all began back in those chaotic days of August 1914, when the Germans attacked Belgium on their way to France. Few could have guessed it then, but the invasion was a topping domino that caused a tumbling together of extraordinary people into a chain reaction of life-and-death situations far from the trenches and killing fields of World War I. And hanging in the balance were millions of civilian lives. It is a story that few have heard. The nonfiction Behind the Lines covers the time from August through December 1914. Using lively personal details, the book follows a handful of young CRB delegates; a twenty-two-year-old Belgian woman; two U.S. diplomats; a Belgian businessman and a priest who team up to fight the German occupation; and the head of the CRB, Herbert Hoover.
Author: Larry Zuckerman
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814797044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The author presents a compelling and untold story of Germany's occupation of Belgium after WW1. It's a great, trade history book from a wonderful storyteller.
Author: Stephen C. McGeorge and Mason W. Watson
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Author: Jean-Michel Veranneman
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526716623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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A historian and former Belgian diplomat sheds light on the country’s tumultuous experience during WWI. In August of 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Yet the Belgian army resisted, managing to hold a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres until the Armistice of 1918. Because of their heroic defense, Belgium and its King enjoyed enormous international prestige after the war. Occupied Belgium suffered civilian executions and severe destruction. It was widely stripped of its highly developed industrial infrastructure. It was saved from starvation by food shipments from the United States which came in via neutral Holland. Four and a half years later, Belgium emerged a different country with experiences that would leave a lasting on its spirit as well as wide-ranging political implications.
Author: Herbert Hoover
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : International relief
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Author: Christoph Cornelissen
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1800737270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great War provides a groundbreaking survey of this vast body of work, assembling contributions on a variety of national and regional historiographies from some of the most prominent scholars in the field. By analyzing perceptions of the war in contexts ranging from Nazi Germany to India’s struggle for independence, this is an illuminating collective study of the complex interplay of memory and history.
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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