Forty-fourth episode: The Siege of Liège - 1914 Fourth video in a series of 8 on the year 1914 on the Western Front. From the beginning of the war, the Germans had an obstacle considered at the time to be of size: the system of forts of Liège. But they had a plan and developed weapons adapted to the challenge that these forts represented. But nothing really went as planned....on both sides. The opportunity to discuss heavy artillery and friction of war. Member channel of the Hérodote Label https://label-herodote.com/ Episode supported by Les Clionautes https://www.clionautes.org/ Sources: 1-Hew Strachan, The First World War Volume I: To Arms, Oxford, 2003 2-Terence Zuber, Ten Days in August- the Siege of Liège 1914, Gloucestershire, 2014 3-Arthur Banks, A Military Atlas of the First World War, Barnsley, 2001 4-Peter Hart, The Great War A Combat History of the First World War, Oxford, 2013 5-Holger H. Herwig, The Marne, 1914 The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World, New York, 2009 6-François Cochet, La Grande Guerre - end of a world, beginning of a century, Paris, 2014 7-Sanders Marble, King of Battle: Artillery in World War I, Boston, 2016 8-Dale Clarke, World War I Battlefield Artillery Tactics, Oxford, 2014 9-Holger H. Herwig, The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914-1918, London, 2014 Notes: -If I tried to scale the guns, howitzers and mortars by putting a silhouette to give you an idea of ​​the size, the firing trajectories, they remain schematic. No representation of the range. -For the animation of the siege, I voluntarily reduced the number of rectangles but tell yourself that beyond the overall movements presented, the siege was above all a multitude of small clashes (notably the 1st night) more on the scale of the regiment than anything else. -My animation of the passage of the German army corps around Liège does not do justice to the real distance that these army corps must have had from each other... I would have needed more time (unlike the Germans, you might say). / surlechampdebataille / surlechampfr To support the channel financially: https://www.helloasso.com/association... Original credits music composed by Julien Théron Logo designed by Camille Sanchez.