Download or read book The History of the Commission for Relief in Belgium 1914 1917 written by Tracy Barrett Kittredge and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Commission for Relief in Belgium written by Commission for Relief in Belgium and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yanks behind the Lines written by Jeffrey B. Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2021 Colorado Book Awards, History Winner, 2021 American Fest’s Best Book Awards, History: Military “This is a powerful work of history, as informative as it is dramatically gripping. An impressive blend of painstaking historical scholarship and riveting storytelling.”—Kirkus Reviews More than nine million soldiers died in World War I. At the same time, a US-led effort saved nearly ten million civilians from starvation behind the lines during the German occupation, yet one of America’s greatest humanitarian efforts is virtually unknown today. In this gripping book, Jeffrey B. Miller tells the remarkable history of two American and Belgian citizen-created organizations that led a massive food relief program for civilians trapped in German-occupied Belgium and northern France. Herbert Hoover, then a successful international businessman, was the driving force behind the effort, coercing and bullying the governments of Germany, Great Britain, France, and the United States to allow a group of idealistic young volunteers to organize in occupied Belgium and coordinate the distribution of tons of food and clothing to desperate Belgians. These crusaders, known as CRB delegates, had to maintain strict neutrality as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regime. Miller tells compelling stories of German brutality, Belgian relief efforts, and the idealistic Americans who went into German-occupied Belgium from October 1914 up to May 1917, when they were forced to leave after the April entry into the war of the United States. Yanks interweaves the history of the time with fascinating personal stories of volunteers, diplomats, a young Belgian woman who started a dairy farm to feed Antwerp’s children, the autocratic head of the Belgian relief organization, and the founder of the American organization, who would become known to the world as the Great Humanitarian and later, largely because of his work in Belgium and post-war Europe, would become the thirty-first president of the United States. Visit the book’s website here: www.YanksBehindTheLines.com Watch the book trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0YKJRrSe4o
Download or read book The Relations Between the Commission for Relief in Belgium and the German Authorities in the Occupied Territories 1914 1917 written by Leta Kirk and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An American Epic The guns cease killing and the saving of life from famine begins 1939 1963 written by Herbert Hoover and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover Master of emergencies 1917 1918 written by George H. Nash and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The Life of Herbert Hoover The humanitarian 1914 1917 written by George H. Nash and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: his family life, business affairs, and the other aspects of his life with the larger historical context. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Behind the Lines written by Jeff Miller and published by Jbm Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Relief Work for the Victims of the War in Belgium Report from September 1914 to 15th June 1917 written by A. De Jardin and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Finding Common Ground written by Jennifer Keene and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the best of cutting-edge scholarship in First World War studies, this anthology demonstrates how conversations among historians across international and cross-disciplinary boundaries enhances our understanding of this global conflict.
