If ever a book could be described as a true labour of love, then it’s this one. The story centres on the war work of the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) that was founded in London in late 1914.…
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BOOK REVIEW — Foreword Clarion Review, 4 of 5 stars
WWI Crusaders is an important historical account of an earnest effort to save a people from wartime destruction. Jeffrey B. Miller’s historical work WWI Crusaders reveals the detailed story behind the world’s largest famine relief effort, which took place during…
BOOK REVIEW — Publishers Weekly, BookLife Review
Miller expands upon his previous volume (Behind Enemy Lines) to provide the complete story of the Commission for the Relief of Belgium, a private American-led relief organization that supervised the import and distribution of food to the people of German-occupied…
BOOK REVIEW — Kirkus Reviews, BEST BOOKS of 2018, Starred Review
Miller (Behind the Lines, 2014, etc.) offers the second volume of a tour-de-force history detailing a little-known World War I humanitarian rescue mission, led by a future American president. During the early years of the First World War, an amazing…
BOOK REVIEW — BlueInk, Starred Review
In WWI Crusaders, Jeffrey B. Miller provides an exhaustive and absorbing portrait of a mission to prevent the starvation of the Belgium civilian population during the first four years of World War I. Miller chronicles the overarching efforts of Herbert…