"Ten Days in August: The Siege of Liège 1914 " Topic
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| Tango01 | 11 Aug 2017 4:22 p.m. PST |
"In August 1914 the German main attack was conducted by the 2nd Army. It had the missions of taking the vital fortresses of Liège and Namur, and then defeating the Anglo-French-Belgian forces in the open plains of northern Belgium. The German attack on the Belgian fortress at Liège had tremendous political and military importance. Nevertheless, there has never been a complete account of the siege. The German and Belgian sources are fragmentary and biased. The short descriptions in English are general, use a few Belgian sources, and are filled with inaccuracies. Making use of both German and Belgian sources, this book for the first time describes and evaluates the construction of the fortress, its military purpose, the German plan, and the conduct of the German attack. Previous accounts emphasize the importance of the huge German "Big Bertha" cannon, to the virtual exclusion of everything else: the Siege of Liège shows that the effect of this gun was a myth, and shows how the Germans really took the fortress"
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Ponder  | 12 Feb 2018 3:01 p.m. PST |
Perhaps too much detail in the book. It was interesting to note the Belgian continued use of black power fortress artillery. Ponder on,
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| hindsTMP | 07 Sep 2018 8:26 a.m. PST |
the effect of this gun was a myth ??? Fort de Loncin would seem to indicate otherwise (I've been there). walloniabelgiumtourism.co.uk/en-gb/3/i-love/heritage-and-culture/wallonia-in-the-wars/14-18/fortress-liege "The forts, however, were tragically exposed by new technology. Their unreinforced concrete was not strong enough to resist the heavy German artillery, including their new supergun, the ‘Big Bertha' howitzer. Fort de Loncin, 7km north-west of Liège, withstood a three-day bombardment until the evening of 15 August, when one of its magazines, containing 12,000kg of gunpowder, was struck by a shell from Big Bertha. The main structure collapsed in apocalyptic fashion. Its interior fabric was torn apart. Three hundred and fifty of the 550-strong garrison were killed instantly or buried alive. The bodies recovered from the rubble are buried in a crypt, but more than 100 were never found, and the site is now a military cemetery as well as a ‘living museum.'"" MH |
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