A Soldier´s Tale
(WorldNews Belgium)

He and his Belgian colleagues would have many opportunities to take revenge upon Nazis throughout the early and mid 1940s. Lippens was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1927. He describes his idyllic childhood with nostalgia while hinting at the violent upheaval then looming to the east. When Germany invades Belgium in Chapter 2, Lippens saves ink for historical context from the perspective of the Belgians. The opening battles of WWII, whether depicted in mainstream documentaries, movies, or books, are generally focused on Poland and the subsequent fall of Paris. To reach France, Lippens notes, the...