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An English Governess in the Great War
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Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.
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An English Governess in the Great War, Sophie de Schaepdrijver
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- 2021
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- Title
- An English Governess in the Great War
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sophie de Schaepdrijver
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0190087617
- ISBN13
- 9780190087616
- Category
- Social sciences, History
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- Mary Thorp, an English governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919. This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict.