Belgium in the Great War Home And they use modern photographs

And they use modern photographs of the locations to give us a telling insight into the landscape of the battle

And who would stop them anyway

Presenting overlooked or forgotten connections

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The First World War probes the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict and takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers

Belgium in the Great War Home And they use modern photographsDescription by Jean Michel Veranneman Hardcover In August 1914, the German Empire invaded neutral Belgium in order to outflank the defenses of the French army. Unexpectedly, the Belgian army resisted and fought on, holding a small part of unoccupied Belgian territory north of Ypres, alongside the British and French armies, until the Armistice of 1918. Because of their heroic defense, Belgium and its King, Albert I enjoyed enormous international