Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War
by
Alan Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2008
On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning...