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From the Ashes - Reconstruction of Flanders Fields after the Great War (Hardcover)
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From the Ashes - Reconstruction of Flanders Fields after the Great War (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R227
Discovery Miles 2 270
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Once the steel storm of the industrial war had passed, the idyllic
Flanders Fields region in Belgium was left as a desolate moon
landscape. The First World War had wiped dozens of villages and
cities completely off the map. The fields had been destroyed by
grenades, mine craters, scrap, trenches, bunkers, railways and
infrastructure of the war machine. But Flanders Fields rose again,
like a Phoenix from the ashes. Even before the end of the war, the
first people returned to their previous homes. A traditional
architecture was supposed to remove all traces from the war and
restore the former beauty of the area. With the first fairs and
processions from 1919 onwards, the social fabric started to heal.
Pilgrims started to come from all the corners of the earth to visit
the many memorials and cemeteries. By the end of the twenties the
reconstruction was largely finished. It is this post-war
reconstruction that continues to define the characteristics of the
region to this very day. This book has been published to
commemorate the centenary of the recovery as guide for iconic sites
of reconstruction, thematic exhibitions, public events, and walking
and cycle routes that will take you to many striking sites of the
reconstruction in the Westhoek. It also contains an historical
overview of the revival of a region so heavily scourged by the
Great War and new insights a century on.
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