World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia

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1The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece

176

2The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note

153

3The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton

789

4Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure

493

5Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren

454

6The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot

816

7Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson

370

8The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note

191

9The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall

787

10The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay

543

11En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall

989

12The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke

374

13The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note

167

14The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer

755

15A gas attack, photograph p. 62

146

16The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton

1311

17The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green

1082

18A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke

737

19The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay

893

20Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100

147

21The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae

1263

22The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note

162

23The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard

1454

24The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134

182

25Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun

448

26The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay

1207

27A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148

107

28The battle of Messines Ridge (1917)

458

29Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162

151

30The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs

1425

31The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman

1002

32The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note

154

33Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler

917

34The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares

422

35The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton

661

36Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204

37A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave

565

38Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner

516

39From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross

836

40The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note

171

41The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones

750

42Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell

776

43General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell

761

44With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark

966

45The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey

707

46''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266

163

47The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note

135

48The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall

766

49The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay

572

50A description of trench life, by René Nicolas

453

51The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan

358

52The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note

165

53The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson

1851

54German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312

166

55The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe

943

56The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton

911

57British tanks in action, photograph p. 332

192

58The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note

168

59The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble

720

60The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon

815

61The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon

1311

62The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman

726

63The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note

154

64The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat

626

65Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner

1095

66The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon

732

67The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note

172

68Flying in the war-zone, by Theta

770

69A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402

160

70A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman

1090

71A great air battle, by a British war correspondent

521

72The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note

124

73Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer

1624

74The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A.

269

75American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440

142

76With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell

795

77With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson

768

78Wonders of war surgery (1917)

915

79The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note

138

80The American Red Cross

261

81Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer

495

82The Y.M.C.A. at the Front, by Francis B. Sayre, with an introduction by John R. Mott, General Secretary of the National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A.

1234

83A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476

127

84The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note

156

85Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton

1434

86Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488

131

87The cost of the war

860

88The human cost

879

89The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note

141

90The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson

1219

91With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo

967

92The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson

738

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