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9780190087616

An English Governess in the Great War The SEcret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp

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    9780190087616

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    0190087617

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2020-10-01
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Sophie De Schaepdrijver is Walter L. and Helen P. Ferree Professor of Modern European History at Pennsylvania State University. She has written on First World War Europe, with a focus on military occupations. Her latest books are Bastion: Occupied Bruges in the First World War and Gabrielle Petit: The Death and Life of a Female Spy in the First World War. She has co-written and presented a television documentary, Brave Little Belgium.

Tammy M. Proctor is Professor of History at Utah State University. She is the author of several books on the history of gender, youth, and war in modern Europe, including Civilians in a World at War, Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts, and Female Intelligence: Women and Espionage in the First World War.

Table of Contents


Introduction: "Still I feel I did my duty": Diary of an English Governess, 1916-1919

Historical Background: "Life in an Occupied City: Brussels"

Mary Thorp's Diary
Part 1: No "eleventh hour": September 1916 - February 1917
Part 2: "Qui vivra verra": March - December 1917
Part 3: "We still hear the same eternal cannon": January - October 1918
Part 4: "The Book of Peace!!!": October 1918 - January 1919

Epilogue

Notes
Appendix: Thorp Family Tree
Bibliography

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