The Agony of Belgium The Invasion of Belgium in WWI August-December 1914.  A contemporary account of the German Invasion of Belgium when Fox was the War Correspondent for the Morning Post, which alerted the world to atrocities visited on the civilian population, and to historic buildings. This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent veteran of the Balkan Wars, precedes the trench warfare of the Great War. It recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, following the rejection of the German Ultimatum by the King, deserves a wider audience.

The Agony of Belgium: The Invasion of Belgium in WW1

History

Fox, Sir Frank

Military

Beaumont Fox

The role of GHQ during World War I, concentrating on the latter years of the War after GHQ moved to Montreuil-sur-Mer in 1916.

G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer): Including "The Game Book" of Unpublished Statistics

Fox, Frank

This is the earliest record of Breaker Morant´s exploits and reprinted for the first time since 1902. Written under the pseudonym of Frank Renar by Sir Frank Fox, it provides a vivid account of the Boer War with drawings by Norman Lindsay and contemporary photographs. "Fox was a great man, and concerning Morant I think of him not only as the launcher of an Australian legend but also its subtlest and most intelligent storyteller; he confounds Morant’s champions as well as Morant’s detractors, as good literature and insider history ought to do. His little book ( Bushman and Buccaneer- A Memoir of Harry Morant) is often cited, sometimes plundered, but too rarely read." Australian military historian Craig Wilcox, author of the book Australia’s Boer War, Oxford University Press 2002. The front cover image is “Shoot straight…” By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969)” depicting the scene immortalized in the Oscar nominated Beresford film of 1980. The iconic image is now available as a poster on www.sirfrankfox.com and Amazon.

Breaker Morant - Bushman and Buccaneer: Harry Morant: His 'Ventures and Verses

Fox, Sir Frank James

Renar, Frank

Africa

<p>In May 1922, King George V took a very small party to the graves of First World War soldiers buried in France and Belgium in the cemeteries and memorials being constructed at the time by the Imperial War Graves Commission. The trip was documented by Australian journalist and soldier Sir Frank Fox and commemorated by Rudyard Kipling in a poem written specifically for the occasion. Despite its lack of fanfare, or perhaps due to its solemn and understated nature, the British monarch's visit to the war cemeteries was an important moment in the history of First World War commemoration. Since George V onwards, members of the Royal Family have visited sites throughout the world to pay homage to the fallen.  This journey began a wider pilgrimage movement that saw tens of thousands of bereaved relatives from the United Kingdom and the Empire visit the battlefields of the Great War in the years that followed the Armistice.  Kipling's poem prefaces the book with lines and stanzas from the poem and the speech given by George V being used as epigraphs for the chapters describing the King s journey, as detailed by Sir Frank Fox. Illustrated with 61 black-and-white unposed and evocative photographs of the visits, as well as a signed letter from the King, telegrams and a letter of thanks from George V on his return home, it is a poignant record of an important moment to these moving memorials after four years of death and destruction.  Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes, the great-grandson of Sir Frank Fox and a veteran of the First Gulf War himself, contributes a new introduction reflecting on the importance of this act of understated remembrance and its legacy.</p>

The King's Pilgrimage: An Account of King George V's Visit to the War Graves in Belgium and France

Sir Frank Fox

Dr Charles Goodson-Wickes

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