2-710-661 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Sack of Louvain', (1919). Scene from the First World War: the town of Louvain in Belgium was attacked by German soldiers in August 1914. 300 civilians lost their lives and the historic university library was destroyed. From "The History of the Great European War: its causes and effects", Vol. II, by W. Stanley Macbean Knight. [Caxton Pulishing Company, Limited, London, 1919]