Bruges 1914: a medium-sized Flemish city with a medieval core and a brand-new modern harbour is turned into a base for imperial Germany's naval and submarine war. Though close to the Western Front, Br
A study of individual heroism in the First World War and an analysis of the debates around collective memory, resistance, gender, occupation and national identity.
A study of individual heroism in the First World War and an analysis of the debates around collective memory, resistance, gender, occupation and national identity.
Our view of the First World War is dominated by the twin images of the fronts and the home fronts, yet the war also generated a third type of ‘front’, that of military occupation. Vast areas of Europe
An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote
