Author: Perre, Gerolf Van de & Johanna Spaey.
Title: Gewonde stad: Augustus 1914.
Description: [Antwerpen], De Bezige Bij, 2014. [220] pp. Col. ills after Gerolf Van de Perre. Orig. hardcover (pictorial boards). 4to.On August 19, 1914, the university city of Leuven changes in a few hours from the Belgian military headquarters into a city occupied by German soldiers. Not much later, Leuven is brutally reduced to ashes: civilians are murdered and the university library is set on fire. This Fire of Leuven' becomes a symbol for German barbarism throughout the world. Painter Gerolf Van de Perre and writer Johanna Spaey capture these dramatic early days of the First World War in powerful and poetic images and words for the first time. 'Wounded City' shows how the mutilated city, the damaged soldiers and the traumatized citizens have to rebuild themselves in difficult circumstances. [Back cover]. - Dutch text by Johanna Spaey..

Keywords: History Military World War 1 Geschiedenis Militaria Wereldoorlog 1