The world suffers from a collective amnesia, in which our vision is limited to trenches and flying aces. This book opens a dialogue on the atrocities committed by both sides, and the occupation that brutalized Belgium and France, which was as bad or worse than what they suffered in WWII. No one considers the effect of the blockade on Germany, how their people too were starving. Propaganda paints it as a glorious, which this book puts the lie to.