Hunger : how food shaped the course of the First World War / Rick Blom ; translated from the Dutch by Suzanne Heukensfeldt Jansen.

Author: Blom, Rick, author.

ImprintWaterloo, ON, Canada : Wilfrid Laurier University Press ; London : Uniform, [2019]

Imprint2019

Descriptionxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Note:'Paris for lunch, dinner in Saint Petersburg': The beginning of the war, 1914 -- Bully beef pie: The final battle, 1918 -- Captain Armstrong: Logistics and distribution -- Goulash cannons and Soyer cookers: The cooks and the kitchen -- Over the Roly-Poly. Life behind the front -- Eat less meat: Food shortages in Britain -- 'We do not ask you to die ... ': Food supplies in France -- The wedding cake: Generous gifts from the home front -- Bayernwald: Life in the trenches -- Dante's Inferno: Famine in Germany -- Kartoffelsuppe, Kartoffelsuppe ... und kein Fleisch: The final battle, 1918.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-234).

Note:"It's about how food - its production, distribution, preparation, and supply - affected the course of the First World War. It's also about the author's attempt to recreate the experience of taking part in combat conditions, as he prepares food in a recreated field kitchen and spends three days in a trench. The book contains many recipes taken from contemporary documents."-- Provided by publisher.

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