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[kylieb]

I'm wondering if there are any books about how the battlefields were cleared & returned to farming land? How the French & Belgium people reclaimed their land & got on with their everyday lives after the war.

Thanks,

Kylie

[Hedley Malloch]

The standard work is by Hugh Clout: 'After the Ruins"  Click here for Amazon sales details, though I think it's out of print now.

http://www.amazon.co...SIN/0859894916/

Second hand copies are hard to come by and expensive.

For a different take have a look at Will Bird's '13 Years After'.  Bird was a CEF soldier who returned to the battlefields and described what he saw.

[egbert]

The standard work is by Ziese "Das unsichtbare Denkmal" Click here for available and reasonable priced 1929 version. Others are on Amazon available.

[munster]

Below are links to some free E-books which may be of interest/help.john
http://www.archive.o...u31924015563434
http://www.archive.o...econstruc00brow

[Keith Roberts]

There is also   "Twenty years after" edited by  Major General Sir Ernest Swinton, published in two volumes by Newnes.

Keith

[kylieb]

Thanks everyone - I'll start with the e-books & if they don't answer my curiosity I'll check out the others.

[keithjk]

Keith Roberts, on 22 July 2012 - 06:16 PM, said:

There is also   "Twenty years after" edited by  Major General Sir Ernest Swinton, published in two volumes by Newnes.

Keith

Actually three volumes Keith, although it's amazing how often Vol 3 gets no mention.

Keith