CHAPTER X
The Agony of Antwerp 154
Chronology of Chief Events 172
The Daily Telegraph
WAR BOOKS
HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM
The Daily Telegraph
WAR BOOKS
=HOW THE WAR BEGAN= By W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D., and J. M. KENNEDY.
=THE FLEETS AT WAR= By ARCHIBALD HURD.
=THE CAMPAIGN OF SEDAN= By GEORGE HOOPER.
=THE CAMPAIGN ROUND LIEGE= By J. M. KENNEDY.
=IN THE FIRING LINE=: Stories of Actual Fighting by the Men who Fought. By A. ST. JOHN ADCOCK.
=GREAT BATTLES OF THE WORLD= By STEPHEN CRANE, Author of “The Red Badge of Courage.”
=THE RED CROSS IN WAR= By Miss M. F. BILLINGTON.
=FORTY YEARS AFTER=: The Story of the Franco-German War. By H. C. BAILEY, with Introduction by W. L. COURTNEY, LL.D.
=A SCRAP OF PAPER=: The Inner History of German Diplomacy. By Dr. E. J. DILLON.
=HOW THE NATIONS WAGED WAR= By J. M. KENNEDY.
=BRITISH REGIMENTS AT THE FRONT= The Glorious Story of their Battle Honours.
=HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM= By EDMUND DANE.
=AIRCRAFT IN WAR= By ERIC S. BRUCE.
=FAMOUS FIGHTS OF INDIAN NATIVE REGIMENTS= By REGINALD HODDER.
=THE RETREAT TO PARIS= By ROGER INGPEN.
=MOTOR TRANSPORT IN WAR= By HORACE WYATT.
=THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE= By MARR MURRAY.
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
HACKING THROUGH BELGIUM
BY EDMUND DANE
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXIV
PREFATORY NOTE
It is the purpose of this book to show the great part played at a crisis in European history by a little People; the signal bravery of their decision; the vital importance, from a military standpoint, of their valiant defence of their Fatherland; and the moral effect in the struggle of that love of liberty which in the face of a devastation unparalleled in western Europe since the seventeenth century, has left their spirit unsubdued. Incomplete though at this juncture the record must be, the British people may be helped by it the more fully to appreciate the sacrifices made by the Belgians for those ideals of ordered independence and freedom on which the greatness of our own Empire has been reared; ideals whose reality has been tested and not found wanting in the fiery trial of war.
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