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100 1 _aMiller, Jeff,
_d1952-,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aBehind the lines :
_bWWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who saved millions from starvation : beginnings, 1914 /
_cJeffrey B. Miller.
264 1 _aDenver :
_bMilbrown Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _axxxv, 442 pages :
_billustrations, maps ;
_c23 cm
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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500 _a"Behind the Lines follows a handful of Belgians in German-occupied Belgium and a group of Americans in the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) from August 1914 through December 1914"--About the book.
500 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 399-404) and index.
505 0 _aAugust 1914, Invasion -- September 1914, Beginnings of hunger and retaliation -- October 1914, Stumbling toward organization -- November 1914, Coming together -- December 1914, Uncertainty prevails.
520 0 _aDuring World War I, the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) initiated, organized, and supervised the largest food and relief drive the world has ever seen. Working in concert with its counterpart in Belgium, the Comite National, the CRB fed and clothed for four years more than 9 million Belgians and northern French trapped behind German lines. Young, idealistic Americans volunteered to go into German-occupied Belgium to guarantee the food would not be taken by the Germans. They had to maintain strict neutrality in what they said and did as they watched the Belgians suffer under the harsh German regime. Covering August 1914 through December 1914, this nonfiction book follows a handful of CRB delegates, a twenty-two-year-old Belgian woman, two U.S. diplomats, the head of the CRB, and a Belgian businessman and a Belgian priest who team up to fight the German occupation. It is a story that few have heard.--
_cAmazon.com.
610 2 0 _aCommission for Relief in Belgium.
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650 0 _aInternational relief
_zBelgium
_xHistory.
_9268874
650 0 _aWorld War, 1914-1918
_xCivilian relief
_zBelgium.
_9268875
651 0 _aBelgium
_xHistory
_yGerman occupation, 1914-1918.
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