Feeding Occupied France during World War I Herbert Hoover and the Bl
This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover’s Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses
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Map of the Invaded French Territories
The invaded French territories and the logistics of supplies Map shows major cities and towns in 7850 sq. miles of occupied Northern France. German Army Zones (Zones des Armées allemandes) are delineated as are relief routes by waterway (Cours d’eau) and rail (Chemin de fer). Redrawn by Druelle and Cerbelaud after an original in Collinet, Paul, and Stahl, Paul, Le ravitaillement de la France occupée, Paris, Publications de la Dotation Carnegie pour la Paix internationale, Paris-PUF—New Haven, Yale University Press, 1928
Clotilde Druelle
Feeding Occupied France during World War I Herbert Hoover and the Blockade
Clotilde Druelle Department of History University of Limoges Limoges, France
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Preface
The End and the Beginning. The poem1 by Wislawa Szymborska (1923– 2012) about wars and their aftermaths, captures the essence of the spirit that inspired my exploration of the past and from what the present book is derived. The End: this volume is an abridged version of original research: part of the Habilitation à diriger des recherches that I was granted in 2016 by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The accreditation, delivered many years after the completion of a Ph.D. degree, is t
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