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  title info:
    title: Yanks behind the lines
    sub title: how the Commission for Relief in Belgium saved millions from starvation during World War I
  name:
    name part: Miller, Jeff
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mdu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 265 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In this remarkable history of two American and Belgian organizations that led a food relief program for millions in German-occupied Belgium and northern France, Jeff Miller tells the inspiring story of one of the greatest humanitarian efforts of World War I, illuminating the desperate lives of civilians during the war.
  table of contents: 1914, setting the stage -- First challenges, first steps -- Hoover and other relief efforts -- Rotterdam : the transshipping hub -- Life in German-occupied Belgium -- The CRB delegates -- The mechanics of relief -- The Belgian side of food relief -- Food relief in Northern France -- Pressures from von Bissing -- Internal strife and battle for control -- Critical crop negotiations -- Accusations : Hoover as traitor, delegates as spies -- A breaking point -- The German deportations -- The human toll -- The last days of Americans in Belgium -- Epilogue.
  note: Jeffrey B. Miller.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-be---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Commission for Relief in Belgium.
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Civilian relief
    geographic: Belgium
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: Belgium
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Food supply
    geographic: France, Northern
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1914-1918
    topic: Civilian relief
    geographic: France, Northern
  subject:
    geographic: Belgium
    topic: History
    temporal: German occupation, 1914-1918
  classification: D638.B4 M553 2020
  classification: 940.4/7787309493
  identifier: 9781538141632
  identifier: 1538141639
  identifier: 9781538141649
  identifier: 1538141647
  identifier: 9781538141656
  identifier: 2020009563
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 200507
    record change date: 20210125091125.0
    record identifier: in00004354538