Provides a vivid account of the conflicts in western Europe, specifically Belgium, at the end of the Second World War; from the Allied liberation to the departure of the Communist ministers from government in 1947.[...]
During a life of many and varied interests, the art historian and mountaineer William Martin Conway (1856-1927) served as a professor of art at Liverpool and Cambridge, a member of parliament, director-general of the Imperial War Museum, and president of the Alpine Club. He climbed extensively in Eu[...]