Kniha Liberators Peter Schrijvers

Liberators

The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945

Jazyk: Angličtina
Vazba: Pevná
Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele
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In the autumn of 1944, Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Yet Allied troops continued to domi...

Informace o knize

Jazyk
Angličtina
Vazba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydáno
2009
Stránek
358
EAN
9780521514828
ISBN
0521514827
Enbook ID
02033129
Hmotnost
69
Rozměry
158 x 235 x 22

Kompletní popis

In the autumn of 1944, Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Yet Allied troops continued to dominate much of Belgian society until late 1945. Peter Schrijvers' revisionist account reveals that during that time, strong currents of discontent began to build beneath the waves of gratitude and admiration. Chronic shortages of food and coal, rampant venereal disease, and deteriorating discipline led the Belgian population to lament 'from the liberators, oh Lord, liberate us'. Despite all this, however, the countries and cultures that the Anglo-American troops represented still exerted substantial attraction and influence, causing them to have a lingering impact on Belgian society in ways that would set the tone for the remainder of the turbulent twentieth century. Using newly discovered material from the Belgian state security archives as well as testimonies of the liberated, this book vividly reconstructs the largely unknown history of Belgium's liberation era.

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