Listen as today the Germans march through Belgium, making...rather a mess of things for the civilians, while the British try to stop them.

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Sources:

Hart, Peter. The Great War: A Combat History of the First World War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.

Meyer, G.J. A World Undone: The Story of the Great War 1914-1918. New York: Bantam Dell, 2006.

Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August. New York: The Random House Publishing Group, 1962.

Davis, Richard Harding. With the Allies.Project Gutenberg eBook, 1914. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11730/pg11730-images.html

Horne, John N. & Alan Kramer (2001) German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial, Yale University Press, New Haven, Appendix I, German Atrocities in 1914.

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