Feeding Occupied France during World War I Herbert Hoover and the Blockade /

• Main Author: Druelle, Clotilde (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: France-History.; United States-History.; Military history.; World history.; World politics.; Diplomacy.; History of France.; US History.; History of Military.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Political History.

This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses on the little-known work of the CRB in...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Herbert C. Hoover: The American Epic
• 2. The Occupation of Belgium and Northern France
• 3. The Significance of the Royal Navy's Blockade of Europe
• 4. The Progressive Coordination of the Supply
• 5. Occupied France: Administration, Protection and Validation
• 6. Time of Contradictions: Supply in the Heart of the Total War, Spring 1917-Fall 1918
• 7. The "End of Innocence", 1918-1919.