Popular History of the War (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Popular History of the War The Belgians had not only been subjected to fire and sword, as in the ancient days Of savagery, but they were in danger Of starvation from the stoppage of industry and absorption Of food supplies by the invaders. Measures Of relief, largely financed at first by Great Britain and later by the United States, were organized under the direction Of an American engineer, Herbert C. Hoover. For the next four years the people Of Belgium and Northern France lived mainly on supplies distributed first under American and later under Spanish direction, suffering indescribable horrors to the very last. Their wrecked cities were still in the condition to which the Germans had reduced them in 1914, or worse, when the country was recovered in 1918. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.