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Liberators - The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945 (Paperback, New)
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Liberators - The Allies and Belgian Society, 1944-1945 (Paperback, New)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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In the autumn of 1944, Belgium was liberated at lightning speed.
Yet Allied troops continued to dominate much of Belgian society
until late 1945. Peter Schrijvers' revisionist account reveals that
during that time, strong currents of discontent began to build
beneath the waves of gratitude and admiration. Chronic shortages of
food and coal, rampant venereal disease, and deteriorating
discipline led the Belgian population to lament 'from the
liberators, oh Lord, liberate us'. Despite all this, however, the
countries and cultures that the Anglo-American troops represented
still exerted substantial attraction and influence, causing them to
have a lingering impact on Belgian society in ways that would set
the tone for the remainder of the turbulent twentieth century.
Using newly discovered material from the Belgian state security
archives as well as testimonies of the liberated, this book vividly
reconstructs the largely unknown history of Belgium's liberation
era.
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