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id: 57177
author: Dyson, Will
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title:
  Australia at War A Winter Record Made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres, During the Campaigns of 1916 and 1917

summary:
  young men bearded like unshorn Andalusians, and garbed like ragged adventurers of another age . . . . He looked like the hundred others one has seen--like many in the company that were lining the corridors, but that his abandonment was greater--he was emphatically lost, lost like a child, and evoking some of the pity that goes to a child, he looked so very young--that quality which here has power to touch the heart of older men in the strongest way.


id: 49328
author: Breton, Willy
title: The Belgian Front and Its Notable Features
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flesch: 63
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  At night come alarms and enemy shells bombarding their quarters and poisoning them with asphyxiating gases. When the last struggles of the battle had ceased, our artillerymen vied with one another in the keenness and industry with which they screened their pieces from enemy observation in the open plain whereon they had perforce to establish them.


id: 4242
author: Morris, Joseph E. (Joseph Ernest)
title: Belgium
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  One would gladly spend more time in this Antwerp gallery, which exceeds, I think, in general magnificence the collections at Brussels and Amsterdam; and gladly would one visit the great fifteenth and sixteenth century churches of St. Jacques, St. Andre, and St. Paul, which not merely form together architecturally an important group of a strongly localized character, but are also, like the cathedral, veritable museums or picture galleries. The cathedral has the usual solitary west tower, as at Ely, that we have now come to associate--at Ypres and Bruges--with typical Belgian churches.


id: 36075
author: Fox, Frank
title: The King's Pilgrimage
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  In all the cemeteries visited by His Majesty, Dominion and British graves lay side by side, and the King assures the people Overseas that these graves will be reverently and lovingly guarded. And the last land he found, it was fair and level ground Above a carven Stone, And a stark Sword brooding on the bosom of the Cross Where high and low are one; And there was grass and the living trees, And the flowers of the Spring, And there lay gentlemen from out of all the seas That ever called him King.


id: 2843
author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
title: Little Travels and Roadside Sketches
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sentence: 554
flesch: 71
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  I have seen old men at Versailles, with shabby coats and pigtails, sunning themselves on the benches in the walls; they had seen better days, to be sure, but they were gentlemen still: and so we found, this morning, old dowager Bruges basking in the pleasant August sun, and looking if not prosperous, at least cheerful and well-bred. Before the inn-window is a garden, from which in the early morning issues a most wonderful odor of stocks and wallflowers; next comes a road with trees of admirable green; numbers of little children are playing in this road (the place is so clean that they may roll in it all day without soiling their pinafores), and on the other side of the trees are little old-fashioned, dumpy, whitewashed, red-tiled houses.


id: 16518
author: Fitzgerald, Percy
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flesch: 73
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title:
  A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg

summary:
  Yet it boasts its 'grand' _place_, imposing enough as a memorial of departed greatness, and, as usual, a Flemish relic, in the shape of a charming belfry and town-hall combined. Like the old Calais watch-tower, it was caked round by, and embedded in, old houses, and had its four curious gargoyles still doing work.


id: 12644
author: Cammaerts, Emile
title: Through the Iron Bars: Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium
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  THROUGH THE IRON BARS Two years of German occupation in Belgium BY EMILE CAMMAERTS ILLUSTRATED WITH CARTOONS BY LOUIS RAEMAEKERS MCMXVII CONTENTS. It is the economic policy of England--not German requisitions--which has ruined Belgium and caused unemployment: If there are any objections to be made about this state of affairs you must address them to England, who, through her policy of isolation, has rendered the coercive measures necessary.


id: 19692
author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
title: Peeps at Many Lands: Belgium
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summary:
  There are many other towns in Belgium besides those we have been looking at: Louvain, with its ancient University; Liége and Charleroi, with their steel and iron works; Courtrai, celebrated for the manufacture of linen; Tournai, where carpets are made; Mons, with its coal-mines; and more besides, which all lie within the narrow limits of this small country. This is the prettiest part of Belgium, and in summer many people, who do not care for going to the seaside, spend the holidays at the towns and villages which are dotted about in the valleys and among the hills and woods.


id: 3642
author: Perkins, Lucy Fitch
title: The Belgian Twins
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flesch: 89
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summary:
  That's how I keep my figure! Mother De Smet set the babies down on the grass, where they immediately began to tumble about like a pair of puppies, and she and Granny talked together, while the Twins went to watch the work of Father De Smet and the boy, whose name was Joseph. Mother De Smet picked herself up and ran to see what was the matter with the baby, while Father De Smet seized a long pole and hurried forward.


id: 36213
title: Ypres and the Battles of Ypres
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sentence: 1991
flesch: 79
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summary:
  IT HAS BEEN RAZED TO THE GROUND (_photo, Antony, Ypres_)] _Keep along the road, leaving on the left the ruins of the church, and a little further on the remains of the château_ (_photo, p. 67_).


id: 25836
author: Gleason, Arthur
title: Young Hilda at the Wars
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summary:
  The only details that have been altered for the purpose of story-telling are these: The Doctor who rescued the thirty aged at Dixmude is still alive; Smith did not receive the decoration, but Hilda did; it was a candlestick on the piano of Pervyse that vibrated to shell fire; the spy continues to signal without being caught; Pervyse, the war-baby, was not adopted by an American financier; motor ambulances were given to the Corps, not to an individual. So when Hilda arrived in large London in September of the great war, there was nothing for it but that somehow she must go to war.


id: 56316
author: Kennedy, J. M. (John McFarland)
title: The Campaign Round Liège
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  For years past strategic railways have been under construction on the Belgian border--railways designed, not for the conveyance of goods or passenger traffic (for there was none), but for the conveyance of German troops from Cologne and other places to north-east France through Belgium and Luxemburg. The German raids, following upon the insolent demand that German troops should be allowed to march through the country, had caused an intense feeling of indignation throughout Belgium.


id: 46116
author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
title: Canada in Flanders, Volume III
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  8th Brigade takes over 5th Brigade lines to Twenty-three Road, and preparations are made for new offensive. The 78th Battalion sends out patrols to locate new enemy lines.


id: 11730
author: Davis, Richard Harding
title: With the Allies
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summary:
  Can the man at home from the crook play or the home run obtain a thrill that can compare with the sight of a man offering up his life that other men may live? To make sure, I asked French, English, and American army officers what margin of error they thought excusable after the range was determined.


id: 44234
author: Schwink, Otto
title: Ypres 1914: An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff
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  By 16th August, before the advance in the west had begun, the Prussian War Minister in Berlin had ordered the formation of five new Reserve Corps to be numbered from XXII to XXVI, whilst Bavaria formed the 6th Bavarian Reserve Division, and Saxony and Würtemburg together brought the XXVII Reserve Corps into being. The German 52nd Reserve Division and the XXVII Reserve Corps were thus faced by less than half their numbers.


id: 11394
author: Powell, E. Alexander (Edward Alexander)
title: Fighting in Flanders
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flesch: 67
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summary:
  Imagine, if you please, standing in the middle of a Belgian highway, surrounded by German soldiers who looked as though they would rather shoot you than not, discussing the relative merits of the hotels at Atlantic City and which had the best dining-car service, the Pennsylvania or the New York Central! When we saw it it was but a heap of smoking ruins, garrisoned by a battalion of German soldiers, and with its population consisting of half a hundred white-faced women.


id: 46215
author: Dane, Edmund (Military historian)
title: The Battles in Flanders, from Ypres to Neuve Chapelle
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summary:
  Having now realised their mistake, they attempted to throw an immense wedge of troops against the two miles of British line between Wytscheate and Messines. The corps who faced the almost untouched length of German trench were the 59th Garhwalis, one of the finest battalions of the Indian Army.


id: 41090
author: Le Queux, William
title: At the Sign of the Sword: A Story of Love and War in Belgium
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  I saw, only a minute or two ago, in the Place d'Armes, quite two hundred men and boys--old men of seventy-five and boys of twelve, many of whom I knew--drawn up, and then shot down by a machine-gun. The happy couple emerged from the church at last man and wife, and Edmond Valentin, still in his shabby dark-blue great-coat, and with his arm bandaged, did not escape the ubiquitous photographers any more than did Aimee de Neuville--now little Madame Valentin.


id: 37712
author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
title: The Crime of the Congo
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summary:
  The Congo State was founded by the Belgian King, and exploited by Belgian capital, Belgian soldiers and Belgian concessionnaires. Consider also that every official of the Congo State is sworn neither at the time nor _afterward_ to reveal any matter that may have come to his knowledge.


id: 53730
author: Vandercook, Margaret
title: The Red Cross Girls in Belgium
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summary:
  Then the next moment Barbara saw Eugenia and herself standing near the opening of a trench in southern France. So once more Barbara felt hurt and left out of things.


id: 29991
author: Goldfrap, John Henry
title: The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields
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summary:
  said Rob, trying to appear perfectly cool and collected, but at the same time knowing that his knees were inclined to knock together, so that he could not blame poor Tubby for feeling as he did. I was thinking more of poor Tubby than either of us, the patrol leader remarked.


id: 37668
author: Coster, Charles de
title: Flemish Legends
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summary:
  Ah, 'tis ale of fair repute throughout the land, this ale, fit for kings or for good devils like yourself! Yes, said the devil, those were good times.


id: 26645
author: Shervill, W. P.
title: Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns
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summary:
  CHAPTER IV The Cataclysm The second summer since Max Durend had left Hawkesley had come, and for the second time Max invited his friend Dale to come over to Liége and spend a few weeks with him. You do not seem pleased to see me, Monsieur Max, observed the manager, smiling in an ingratiating manner that to Max was more objectionable at that moment than open triumph.


id: 46114
author: Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
title: Canada in Flanders, Volume I
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summary:
  They vary from large maps, to be hung on walls or spread on great tables, down to small slips--with a few lines of German trenches accurately outlined--and most handy for the use of battery and battalion commanders. Again and again the British and Canadian troops took the first, the second, and the third line German trenches.


id: 46115
author: Beaverbrook, Max Aitken, Baron
title: Canada in Flanders, Volume II
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flesch: 66
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summary:
  The enemy's positions on Mount Sorrel and Hill 62 were to be shelled upon a frontage of 1,500 and to a depth of 1,000 yards, while it was the ambition of the artillery to break to pieces, day in and day out, some 10,000 yards of German trenches, so that when the moment for the assault arrived the infantry could go forward, in General Burstall's words, with slung rifles. Counter-attacks--Obstacles to victory--The ground described--The enemy deceived--Ravage wrought by heavy guns--Impassable ground--Schemes based upon unreliable information--Forward movement ordered--The 28th severely shelled at Voormezeele--Confusion regarding the occupation of the craters--Raid on Craters 2 and 3 fails--Wrong craters attacked--The Canadian infantry in Craters 6 and 7--Enemy patrols walk straight into Canadian trenches and are taken prisoners--The actual situation revealed by aerial photographs--Unit follows unit to certain death--The brave 28th--Heavy casualties--Determination of the Higher Command--Sniper Zacharias--A gallant deserter--Imperative order to take the German positions--Crater No. 1 captured--Unfortunate lack of reliable information--Four privates hold an exposed position for 70 hours--Individual acts of bravery common--Good work of the Lewis gun team--Get on at any cost--Brave though fruitless attempts--A glorious failure--Repeated counter-attacks unsuccessful--The third phase of the Battle of St. Eloi--A parallel of Verdun--The enemy seizes a dominant position--A deadlock--General Turner's suggestions--Reconstruction of the old British line under General Watson--The inglorious drudgery of digging--Perilous position of Canadians in advanced positions--Carrier pigeons used as messengers for the first time--Value of position problematical--Superior trenches of the enemy--Useful work of aircraft--Historic ground--First and second great actions of Dominion Army contrasted--Failure and success enter into the education of a nation CHAPTER VII ST.


id: 46248
author: Omond, George W. T. (George William Thomson)
title: Belgium
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summary:
  By GERTRUDE DEMAIN HAMMOND, R.I. The Beautiful Birthday Book 12 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR DECORATIVE BORDERS BY A. A. TURBAYNE Painted by A. FORESTIER Text by G. W. T. OMOND Brabant & East Flanders 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By A. CROXTON SMITH Painted by G. VERNON STOKES British Dogs at Work 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By W. TRIGNMOUTH SHORE Painted by W. BISCOMBE GARDNER Canterbury 20 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR By Mrs. WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY Country Sketches for City Dwellers 16 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Painted by JOHN FULLEYLOVE, R.I. Described by ROSALINE MASSON Edinburgh 21 FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR Painted and Described by DION CLAYTON CALTHROP English Costume In Four Sections, each containing 18 to 20 full-page Illustrations in Colour, and many Illustrations in the text: Section I. Early English II. 'Charles,' we learn from a local history, 'sut se rendre populaire en prenant part aux amusements de la population et en se pliant, sans effort comme sans affectation, aux usages du pays.'


id: 27442
author: Cammaerts, Emile
title: Belgium: From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day
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summary:
  If Belgian irredentism proved very strong at the beginning, it gradually diminished, owing mainly to the fact that the patriots, on both sides of the frontier, were unable to entertain any hope of reunion during the long period of neutrality which paralysed Belgian foreign policy. But, through the works accomplished in other countries and with the help of a few documents such as the inventory preserved in the _Chronicle of St. Trond_, we are able at least to appreciate not only their intrinsic value, but also the interest they awoke among clerics and laymen.


id: 18959
author: Gibson, Hugh
title: A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium
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flesch: 75
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summary:
  We are put on German time to-day. The restaurant was half filled with German officers, who were dining with great gusto.


id: 58509
author: Buffin, Camille
title: Brave Belgians
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flesch: 80
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summary:
  Corporal Boreux and other wounded men were there and we were then in safety. I hurried away from this hell and made my way up and down the battle-field, in search of wounded men to relieve and dying ones to whom to administer the last sacraments.


id: 54296
author: Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
title: The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915
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summary:
  As to Case: When the mobile Infantry Regiment No. 74 was marching on Liège in August 1914, I received the order to remain behind with a detachment of the 9th Company for the protection of the baggage collected in the market-place at Poulseur. The Bond was seen at the time by my comrades Pusch and Kurt Wagner, as well as by Lieutenant of Research Bloch, Infantry Regiment No. 27, and Lieutenant Brohm, Jäger Battalion No. 4. Read over, approved, signed.


id: 51716
author: Massart, Jean
title: Belgians Under the German Eagle
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summary:
  For, firstly, the soldiers were not posted on an Hôtel de Ville; secondly, they were not even posted _on_ the Palais de Justice, but to one side of it, as may easily be determined on the spot; thirdly, German soldiers have never been placed there to overlook an enemy! Belgian women have cut the throats of German soldiers quartered on them while they slept.... _Journal de la Guerre_ (an organ of German propaganda).


