German Posters in Belgium
Title | German Posters in Belgium PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | Belgium |
ISBN |
News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo
Title | News from Belgium and the Belgian Congo PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1943 |
Genre | Belgium |
ISBN |
Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium (WWI Centenary Series)
Title | Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium (WWI Centenary Series) PDF eBook |
Author | Emile Cammaerts |
Publisher | Read Books Ltd |
Pages | 77 |
Release | 2016-03-10 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1473367956 |
"It is the plain matter-of-fact story of Belgian life under German rule. Many more people will be tempted to praise the glory of our soldiers. But, if the incidents of conquered Belgium's life are not recorded in good time, they might escape notice. People might forget that, besides the 150,000 to 200,000 heroes who are now waging war for Belgium on the Western front, there are 7,500,000 heroes who are suffering for Belgium behind the German lines, in the close prison of guarded frontiers, cut off from the whole world, separated alike from those who are fighting for their deliverance and from those who have sought refuge abroad." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.
European War Pamphlets
Title | European War Pamphlets PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 944 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
German Atrocities, 1914
Title | German Atrocities, 1914 PDF eBook |
Author | John Horne |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 632 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780300107913 |
Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.
News from Belgium
Title | News from Belgium PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 1941 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium
Title | Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium PDF eBook |
Author | Emile Cammaerts |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 66 |
Release | 2022-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Through the Iron Bars is a poetic and factual description of the Belgian losses during World War I. Georgette Heyer writes her tale during the German occupation, resulting in an incredibly accurate personal account. Excerpt: "The English-speaking public is generally well informed concerning the part played in the war by the Belgian troops. The resistance of our small field army at Liège, before Antwerp, and on the Yser has been praised and is still being praised wherever the tale runs. This is easy enough to understand. The fact that those 100,000 men should have been able to hold so long in check the forces of the first military Empire in Europe, and that a great number of them, helped by new contingents of recruits and led by their young King, should still be fighting on their native soil, must appeal strongly to the imagination."