Through the Day, through the Night: A Flemish Belgian Boyhood and World War II

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Through the Day, through the Night Through the Day, through the Night A Flemish Belgian Boyhood and World War II Jan Vansina T h e U n i v e r s i t y o f W i s c o n s i n P r e s s The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street, 3rd Floor Madison, Wisconsin 53711-2059 uwpress.wisc.edu 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England eurospanbookstore.com Copyright © 2014 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any format or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a website without written permission of the University of Wisconsin Press, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles and reviews. Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Vansina, Jan, author. Through the day, through the night: a Flemish Belgian boyhood and World War II / Jan Vansina. pages   cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-299-29994-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-299-29993-4 (e-book) 1. Vansina, Jan.   2. Flemings—Belgium—Biography. 3. Belgians—Biography.   4. Historians—United States—Biography. 5. Belgium—History—German occupation, 1940–1945—Biography. I. Title. DH689.V36A3    2014 949.304´2092—dc23 [B] 2013033115 Riding, riding, riding, through the day, through the night, through the day. Riding, riding, riding. And one’s courage has grown so tired, and one’s longing so great. Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Lay of the Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke” (1906) ...