De Schaepdrijver, Sophie

"Sophie De Schaepdrijver ( 1961) is a Belgian historian. She lives in the USA, where she teaches Modern European History at the Pennsylvania State University, since 2000. In 1997, she published the bestseller The Great War: the Kingdom Belgium in the First World War (De Groote Oorlog: het Koninklijke Belgie in de Eerste Wereldoorlog), which was praised by critics for its new perspective on a dramatic war experience. "