The war was good for something after all: Love stories from '40-'45

The background is gruesome, but despite all the horrors, people fall in love with each other during the Second World War. In the resistance, in the shelter, in the sanatorium and even in the camps, love keeps men and women going.

In twelve true love stories, the reader is taken to the Belgian intelligence services but also to the camps of Breendonk and Dachau. He peers over the shoulders of our government in exile in London and follows two forced laborers in Germany. He witnesses the landing in Normandy and accompanies the brigade of Jean-Baptiste Piron, who liberates Brussels. This book tells war history using life stories.

The title is inspired by the wedding telegram for Frieda Joris' parents who met while nursing the wounded after the V-bomb on the Antwerp Cinema Rex. 'Much happiness and prosperity. The V-days were good for something'. After all, in conflict situations not only the ugliest in people comes to the surface, but often also the most beautiful.