Abstract
Herbert Hoover wrote extensively about his long public life in An American Epic. He began with the occupation of Belgium and Northern France, yet whole sections of the history of the First World War in France remain unrecognized. Druelle rectifies this omission in this book. Hoover’s Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) is the de facto original International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) with a raison d’etre of supplying civilians behind the German lines with needs from food to energy. Hoover was tackling an immense problem of procurement, transport, equitable distribution, and immediate or deferred settlement of purchases. The CRB was not a charity, although Hoover was working altruistically and not for profit. Why has history misremembered him, disliked him when his humanitarian core is evident throughout this book?
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