Mary Thorp, an English Governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919.
This long-forgotten diary sheds light on an important aspect of the First World War: civilian life under military occupation in a transnational conflict..
Mary Thorp, an English Governess working for a Belgian-Russian family in German-occupied Brussels, kept a secret war diary from September 1916 to January 1919