In early September 1944, Allied troops turned the tables on the Germans, launching their own version of Blitzkrieg across Europe’s ancient battleground Belgium. For the newly liberated, the atmosphere was one of delirious happiness after four years of brutal Nazi occupation. This is a colorized picture of a scene in liberated Brussels that was used for the cover of the Dutch translation (Manteau) of my book LIBERATORS (Cambridge). The publisher’s designer did a great job reimagining this iconic image.
