Description

L. B. Fischer, New York, Published date: 1943. Hardcover; xvii, 259 pp; 21 cm. First edition. One illustration (pg 173). In good+ condition / NO dust jacket. Original brick-red cloth boards with black lettering on spine; light shelf wear to edges and mild rubbing to cloth; binding sound. Interior pages lightly toned due to wartime paper quality; otherwise pages are unmarked. No dust jacket present. Wartime political and historical study of Belgium under German occupation during World War II, written by Belgian author and journalist Jan-Albert Goris (1899-1984), later widely known under the pen name Marnix Gijsen. With an introduction by James Hilton. The book analyzes occupation policies, labor and agricultural control, censorship, resistance, and exile, and includes reflections on Belgiums role in the Allied cause and the authors experience in the United States. Contents include: Introduction by James Hilton; Preface; Chronicle of oppression; Belgium's position in the allied world; Political problems and how not to solve them; The labor front; Farming under the Nazis; How to plunder and how to punish; The common people in the fight; Muzzling Belgian spiritual life; Belgian Congos fight; Fights in the forum; Two fantastic planners; The government-in-exile and the allies; Feeding or starving the occupied countries; Nazis or Germans; American primers for Europe; The refugee looks at the United States; The refugees Thanksgiving Day; "A song to the Lord in an alien land"; Columbus is my middle name; Travelogue with a moral.