The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . fik^ti4J^h. ALBERT, KING OF BELGIUM, AND A GROUP OF HIS OFFICERS German, frontier, with Verdun, Toul, Epinal, and Belfortguarding that front, and behind them a second line hardlyless formidable, but that frontier was mountainous and hadfew roads, such roads as it had running through narrowvalleys and among gaps in hills. None of the frontierfortresses was strictly impregnable, but the work of smash-ing through, when a French field-army was defending the
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . fik^ti4J^h. ALBERT, KING OF BELGIUM, AND A GROUP OF HIS OFFICERS German, frontier, with Verdun, Toul, Epinal, and Belfortguarding that front, and behind them a second line hardlyless formidable, but that frontier was mountainous and hadfew roads, such roads as it had running through narrowvalleys and among gaps in hills. None of the frontierfortresses was strictly impregnable, but the work of smash-ing through, when a French field-army was defending them,would have consumed an amount of time which Germanycould not give. Hence her violation of the neutral gate-ways. 247 ON THE WESTERN FRONT The railroad from Aix-la-Chapelle to Liege was one of the^reat trunk lines of Europe. West of Liege it opened intoseveral double-track routes, one of which led across theBelgian plain to Brussels, and to Paris over level country,destitute of large rivers, high mountains, or other naturalobstacles to the rapid advance of an invading army. IfGermany was to crush France by one blow, here was heronly possible avenu
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