This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labor camps until Herbert Hoover ...
Read More
This account, based on original sources including diaries, memoirs, family records, secret diaries written during the war, vivid memories and official records, shows how the rich agricultural and industrial areas of northern France were invaded, occupied and exploited between the summer of 1914 and the Armistice in November 1918. Factories were stripped, household furniture and fittings requisitioned, food supplies taken, the population maltreated and malnourished and even taken to forced labor camps until Herbert Hoover set up his scheme of aid which kept the population alive during the war. This fascinating account describes how French civilians responded in familiar ways in the war.
Read Less
Add this copy of The Long Silence Civilian Life Under the German to cart. $32.50, good condition, Sold by Michener & Rutledge Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Baldwin City, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1999 by I. B. Tauris.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1860644791. Inscribed by the author; slightly cocked, blind stamp to title page, otherwise text clean and solid; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 256 pages.
Add this copy of The Long Silence: Civilian Life Under the German to cart. $86.38, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by I. B. Tauris.
