van Ypersele, Laurence

Laurence van Ypersele is Professor at UCLouvain. She teaches Contemporary History and works on World War I and its memory. Member of the board of the Historial de la Grande Guerre of Péronne (France), she wrote several books: Le roi Albert, Histoire d’un mythe (Quorum, 1995; Labor, 2006), Question d’histoire contemporaine: Conflits, mémoires et identités (PUF, 2006), Je serai fusillé demain. Les dernières lettres des patriotes belges et français fusillés par l’occupant, 1914–1918 (Racine, 2011), and Brussels, War and Memory, 1914–2014 (La Renaissance du livre, 2014).