Robert Le Rossignol by Deri Sheppard

Author:Deri Sheppard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030297145
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

2.Records of the Great War, I, Ed. Charles F. Horne, National Alumni (1923).

3.It had no contingency for failure, nor retreat, nor any consideration of improved enemy logistics.

4.Indeed, Belgium almost destroyed the Schlieffen plan single handedly. The railway system across northern France and Belgium was a vital component in the plan, but the Belgians had long prepared to sabotage their own system to slow down the advance if Germany were ever to attack them. If it were not for the large number of failures of the explosives they used, they may well have achieved that. The same railway system also rapidly brought the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to northern France in time to meet the Germans entering French territory (at Mons). The Germans could not believe they were fighting ‘Tommies’ only days after the declaration of war! From, Michael Portillo, Railways of the Great War, BBC Productions, broadcast 04–08 August 2014.

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