Belgium in the Great War Home by Prit Buttar

by Prit Buttar

examining the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers’ wartime experiences and the impacts these representations had on the British Empire’s racial politics

as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators

Auchinleck Postgraduate Research Studentship in her honour (November 2016)

Belgium in the Great War Home by Prit ButtarDescription 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