Excerpt from Germany and England The efficiency of the Liege forts and the gallantry of some thirty thousand Belgian soldiers have checked the German advance, have dislocated the German plans, and gained for the French 'an invaluable extension of time in which to complete their mobilisation and arrange their dispositions. Could we have-put half a million troops behind. The defences of Liege and Namur, the German flank movement would have been rendered impossible. To-day we are at war. Mistakes have been made in the past; it is useless to recall them. Are at war, and shall be well advised to take example by Lord Kitchener, and make the best of the means at our disposal. Do not let us bicker about what might have been. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.