Tales from a Famished Land / Including The White Island—A Story of the Dardanelles

A linked collection of short stories and sketches set around the First World War, drawn from relief work and front-line experience. The pieces portray relief workers, soldiers, peasants, and the mentally ill as they face hunger, occupation, exhaustion, and small mercies, often illuminated by local customs, saints, and moments of dark humour. Scenes move from intimate Flemish cottages and village life to military episodes and a long narrative at the Dardanelles, blending reportage and invention to convey the moral tensions, everyday resourcefulness, and resilient humanity of ordinary people living through wartime privation.