Liberators - The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945

Informationen zum Autor Peter Schrijvers is Senior Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He is the author of The Crash of Ruin: American Combat Soldiers in Europe during World War II (1998), The GI War against Japan: American Soldiers in Asia and the Pacific during World War II (2002) and The Unknown Dead: Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge (2005). Klappentext A revisionist account of the social, economic, and cultural impact of the Anglo-American liberators on Belgian society. Zusammenfassung In 1944 Belgium was liberated at lightning speed. Past accounts have focussed on the stunning Allied victories and the initial euphoria of liberation but chronic food and fuel shortages! rampant venereal disease! and deteriorating discipline followed leading many Belgians to lament 'from the liberators! oh Lord! liberate us'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Big Void: 1. The sun sets; 2. Shadow fighters; Part II. Liberation!: 3. Embracing the new; 4. Exorcising the old; Part III. Liberators: 5. Waves of admiration; 6. Currents of discontent; Epilogue: A tide of change; Cries for normalcy; Whispers of change.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Schrijvers, Peter (University of New South Wales Schrijvers, Schrijvers Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.2009
• EAN: 9780521514828
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51482-8
• No. of pages: 358
• Series: Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cult; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; European History, Belgium, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, National liberation and independence