Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Legacies of an Occupation, 1940 - 1944
2: The Struggle for Liberty and Legality, September 1944 - February 1945
3: Recovery and Upheaval, February - August 1945
4: The Dynamics of Political Normalisation, Summer 1945 - February 1946
5: The Reconstruction of the Belgian Nation-State and Post-War Elections, Summer 1945 - February 1946
6: The Social Normalisation of Belgium 1945 - 1947
7: Economic Conflict and Political Realignment, February 1946 - March 1947
8: The Death of Belgium
Bibliography

About the Author

Martin Conway is a historian of twentieth-century Europe at the University of Oxford. He has written widely on aspects of the history of Europe, focusing particularly on the making and unmaking of democratic politics in inter-war and post-1945 Europe. He has long had a particular interest in the history of Belgium. His first book on pro-German collaboration in Belgium during the Second World War was published in French- and Dutch-language editions in Belgium.

Reviews

The authors goal is to explain this seemingly paradoxical outcome of almost a decade of political and social turmoil. Based on a profound knowledge of Belgian historiography (much of it unknown internationally since written in Dutch and French) and on the critical exploration of an important number of new edited and unedited sources, Martin Conway succeeds in this ambition.
*Antoon Vrints, European History Quarterly*

In this excellent book, Martin Conway asks how Belgium, a nation so sharply divided along linguistic, political, class, and religious lines, managed not only to survive the shocks of World War II but to emerge from the war years largely unchanged in its basic political structures.
*William I. Hitchcock, American Historical Review*