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L. (Lambertus) Mokveld
1890–1968
A Dutch journalist who reported from the front in Belgium during the first months of World War I, he turned firsthand wartime reporting into a vivid and influential book. His work offers a rare eyewitness view of the German invasion as it unfolded.
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About the author
Born in 1890, Lambertus Mokveld was a Dutch journalist best known for his reporting on the First World War. As a young reporter for the Dutch newspaper De Tijd, he was sent to Belgium in August 1914 and spent months following events close to the German army's advance. Those experiences later formed the basis of his best-known book, The German Fury in Belgium.
Sources on Mokveld describe him as one of the first Dutch war correspondents to report directly from the front. His writing focused on the invasion of Belgium and the destruction he witnessed there, giving readers in the Netherlands and beyond an immediate picture of the war's human cost.
After the war, he continued a substantial career in journalism. Biographical notes indicate that he later became editor-in-chief of the Eindhovens Dagblad and also founded a press agency that supplied provincial newspapers across the Netherlands. He died in 1968.