Eyewitness: Siege of Liège – Part Seven, The attack on Liège

German soldiers cross the Belgian border at Gemmenich thus breaching Belgian neutrality to which Germany was a signatory

No one has lived in vain who has experienced the thrill and fever of preparation and resolve in the early days of the attack, when nearly every man wore a uniform and carried a gun, when the civil guards felt elated at being useful to their country at last, and every man did…