The Wrack of the Storm

The Wrack of the Storm is a book of essays by Belgian author and Nobel Literature Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck. The essays are about the Belgian invasion by Germany during the Second World War and how life in Belgium is affected by the war. Maeterlinck reasons that it is best to capture the history of the war as it unfolds to avoid any post war distortions. He speaks of the courage of his people and opines that the whole German people, and not merely the NAZI leadership, ought to be held responsible for the atrocities of the war.