Author: Pierre GoemaerePublisher: New York, E. P. Dutton [c1921]
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Across America with the King of the Belgians
Author: Pierre GoemaerePublisher: New York, E. P. Dutton [c1921]
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Across America With the King of the Belgians (Classic Reprint)
Author: Pierre GoemaerePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484475266
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Excerpt from Across America With the King of the Belgians I must confess that two months ago I had not the slightest intention of writing this book. I thought I had satisfied my need for expression in newspaper articles and lectures. But as the days go by, souvenirs come back and more mature im pressions are born again. The splendor Of that journey still haunts my memory, like that shepherd in the Provencal legend who, after having looked too long at the sun, kept some of its light in his eyes. My ears still have the echo of a great applause. I shall endeavor therefore to bring back some image of all this by noting day by day from the very beginning the impressions and Observations made on His Majesty's trip through the great American Republic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Across America With The King Of The Belgians
Author: Pierre GoemaerePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781378886182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
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Americans in Occupied Belgium, 1914-1918
Author: Ed KlekowskiPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786472553
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Belgium in the First World War--the first country invaded, the longest occupied, and when the war finally ended, the first forgotten. In 1914, Belgium was home to a large American colony which included representatives of American companies, artists, writers and diplomats with the American Legation. After the invasion, American journalists and adventurers flocked there to follow the action; military restrictions on travel were less stringent than in England or France. As the most industrialized country in Europe, Belgium depended upon trade and food imports to support its economy. The war isolated Belgium and wholesale starvation was imminent by the fall of 1914. Herbert Hoover and his Commission for Relief in Belgium raised funds to purchase and import food to sustain Belgium and, eventually, Occupied France as well. Idealistic American volunteers (including some Rhodes scholars) supervised food distribution in the occupation zone. Along the Western Front in Belgium, hundreds of Americans served (illegally) in the British and Canadian armies. This book tells the story of the German invasion, occupation and retreat from the perspective of Americans who were there.
Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question
Author: E. Ramón ArangoPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421434687
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Originally published in 1963. Between 1945 and 1951, Belgium faced a crisis in political leadership when its ruling monarch, King Leopold III, was accused of violating the Belgian Constitution during World War II. The "question" at hand refers to the uncertainty over whether King Leopold III could return to Belgium as king. Leopold III and the Belgian Royal Question documents the history of this political crisis, culminating with the abdication of King Leopold and the assumption of the crown by Baudouin, Leopold's son.
King Leopold's Ghost
Author: Adam HochschildPublisher: Picador
ISBN: 1760785202
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.
Treaty with the King of the Belgians
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scheldt River
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Country Life in America
Author: Liberty Hyde BaileyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
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