Belgium

Across Flanders’ flat fields, towers and spires rise into view until the quiet market town of Furnes appears, its white-brick houses and crow-stepped gables seeming untouched by time. How can such a still, beautiful place stand so close to the ruin sweeping Europe?

Joseph E. Morris writes of Belgium as he knew it before the war: from the fenlands of West Flanders to the wooded heights of the Ardennes, a country shaped by old cities, churches and art. He lingers over Furnes, Bruges and other places where stone and brick hold the marks of generations, while the present threat of destruction gives every view a new poignancy. This is both a traveller’s portrait and a plea to remember what Belgium has given the world—and what may yet be rebuilt. What will remain of this inheritance when the storms have passed?

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