Michael John Walsh

A Nun, a Convent, and the German Occupation of Belgium

History & Biography

“There are, as Rene Kollar points out in his helpful introduction to this book, several accounts by nuns of Germany's invasion of Belgium in 1914, and the atrocities committed by the advancing forces. None, however, are as vivid, or as complete, as the diary of Mother Marie Georgine, the very British Isoline Jones, which Father Kollar has meticulously edited and annotated. This is a very useful addition to the literature on World War I.”