Bastion: Occupied Bruges in the First World War

by Sophie De Schaepdrijver

Bruges 1914: a medium-sized Flemish city with a medieval core and a brand-new modern harbor is turned into a base for imperial Germany's naval and submarine war. Though close to the Western Front, Bruges saw another face of war: that of military occupation, of being made into a bastion for its conqueror's war, and of being bombed from the air as a result. The story of Bruges in the First World War is the story of a city that escaped destruction but...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9492081059
• ISBN13: 9789492081056
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Cannibal Publishing
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.3"