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Tango01 | 08 Aug 2014 9:46 p.m. PST |
"Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 offers a fascinating new perspective on the German offensive against France and Belgium in 1914. In graphic detail it describes the intense fighting that took place around the forts and fortified cities that stood in the path of the German invasion. The ordeal began with the German assault on the mighty fortress of Liège. They took twelve days to batter their way through the ‘Gateway to Belgium', losing tens of thousands of men in repeated frontal assaults, and they had to bring up the heaviest siege artillery ever used to destroy the defenses. This is the epic struggle that Clayton Donnell depicts in this compelling account of a neglected aspect of the battles that followed the outbreak of the Great War. Not only does he reconstruct the German attack on the strong points they encountered along the entire invasion line, but he traces the history and design of these fixed defenses and analyses the massive military building programs undertaken by the French, the Germans and the Belgians between 1871 and 1914." See here link Anyone has read this book? If the answer is yes, comments please? Thanks in advance for your guidance. Amicalement Armand |
doug redshirt | 09 Aug 2014 10:43 a.m. PST |
Except the Germans didn't lose tens of thousands of men taking Liege. Also they didn't lose 12 days to the forts, someone is counting mobilizing time as being time lost. If I remember right the Germans actually moved the first day of movement up by a day, because the forts had been reduced ahead of time. Also by the time the siege guns had gotten set up, the Corps level and Army level artillery and the heavy mortars the engineers were using had already opened up the fortress line around Liege, the Germans used the Siege guns as cover for the fact that they had heavy mortars and guns at the Army level. So another myth of the war lives on. |
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