Tag: Behind the Lines
100th Anniversary of One of America’s Greatest Humanitarian Endeavors Few Americans Know About
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 6, 2014 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- On Oct, 22, 1914, less than three months after the start of World War I, one of the largest food relief programs the world has ever seen was begun when the Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) was founded in London by a group of prominent Americans, according to Jeffrey B. Miller, author of a new nonfiction book, "Behind the Lines, WWI's little-known story of German occupation, Belgian resistance, and the band of Yanks who saved millions from starvation" (ISBN: 978-0990689300; Milbrown Press).
