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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

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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

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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

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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

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