An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp de Schaepdrijver Sophie
An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote…
Specifikacia An English Governess in the Great War: The Secret Brussels Diary of Mary Thorp de Schaepdrijver Sophie
An Englishwoman of no particular fame living in World War I Brussels started a secret diary in September 1916. Aware that her thoughts could put her in danger with German authorities, she never wrote her name on the diary and ran to hide it every time the "Boches" came to inspect the house. The diary survived the war and ended up in a Belgian archive, forgotten for nearly a century until historians Sophie De Schaepdrijver and Tammy M. Proctor discovered it and the remarkable woman who wrote it: Mary Thorp, a middle-aged English governess working for a wealthy Belgian-Russian family in Brussels.As a foreigner and a woman, Mary Thorp offers a unique window into life under German occupation in Brussels (the largest occupied city of World War I) and in the uncertain early days of the peace. Her diary describes the roar of cannons in the middle of the night, queues for food and supplies
In the Shadow of the Great War
Mary in the Qur'an
Germany in the Great War
Bath in the Great War
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole…
Tank Corps in the Great War
The Great Secret of Holy Death
French Army in the Great War