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The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands

2018-07-02 History
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Book Synopsis The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands by : Felicity Rash

Download or read book The Great War in Belgium and the Netherlands written by Felicity Rash. This book was released on 2018-07-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the many avenues that are still left unexplored when it comes to our understanding of the First World War in the Low Countries. With the ongoing the centenary of the Great War, many events have been organized in the United Kingdom to commemorate its military events, its socio-political consequences, and its cultural legacy. Of these events, very few have paid attention to the fates of Belgium or the Netherlands, even though it was the invasion of Belgium in August 1914 that was the catalyst for Great Britain declaring war. The occupation of Belgium had long-term consequences for its people, but much of the military and social history of the Western Front concentrates on northern France, and the Netherlands is largely forgotten as a nation affected by the First World War. By opening the field beyond the military and beyond the front, this collection explores the interdisciplinary and international nature of the Great War.

Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium

2019 History
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Release : 2019
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Book Synopsis Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium by : Geneviève Warland

Download or read book Experience and Memory of the First World War in Belgium written by Geneviève Warland. This book was released on 2019. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to its unprecedented violence and unexpected duration, the First World War generated many complex and tragic experiences, which over time have been reinterpreted. Connecting past experiences with current memories of the war - in order to revisit in an interdisciplinary way Belgium's archival and literary, as well as material and monumental war heritage - is the goal of this book which presents the outcomes of the research project Experiences and Memories of the Great War in Belgium (MEMEX WW1). The following topics as part of the historical, psychological and memory studies are addressed: emotions and writing strategies in a war context and attitudes towards the Germans based on the diaries of Belgian soldiers and scholars; the memory of the war in the two fort cities of Antwerp and Liege during the Interbellum; the literary reception of Tom Lanoye's No Man's Land and the impact of the reading of some poems to current Flemish students. Another issue concerning the social representations of the war investigates the representations of soldiers as heroes or as victims among young Europeans. As for the impact of war centenary commemoration events, they are analyzed firstly through the iconology of the First World War illustrated on stamps and secondly through the effects of exhibitions and documentaries on young Belgians.

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Small Countries in a Big Power World: The Belgian-Dutch Conflict at Versailles, 1919

2016-11-21 History
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Book Synopsis Small Countries in a Big Power World: The Belgian-Dutch Conflict at Versailles, 1919 by : H.P. van Tuyll

Download or read book Small Countries in a Big Power World: The Belgian-Dutch Conflict at Versailles, 1919 written by H.P. van Tuyll. This book was released on 2016-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a devastated Belgium emerged from World War I, some of its leaders had high hopes that the upcoming negotiations would enable achievement of a long-cherished goal; annexing parts of the Netherlands lost in the final 1839 settlement which had established the country. Belgium’s strong historical and military arguments were bolstered by its courageous Great War image. Yet the Dutch proved ready and able to launch an energetic counterattack which ultimately stymied the Belgian campaign. This book explains why and how this happened, and demonstrates that small states are active participants in their own destinies, not just spectators or victims.

An English Governess in the Great War

2017 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2017
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Book Synopsis An English Governess in the Great War by : Mary Thorp

Download or read book An English Governess in the Great War written by Mary Thorp. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.

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