With an Introduction
By GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH
Chief of Staff of the United States Army
With Exclusive Photographs by
JAMES H. HARE and DONALD THOMPSON
World-Famed War Photographers
and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs
of the United States, Canadian, British,
French and Italian Governments
MCMXIX
LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY
New York
Copyright, 1918
Francis A. March
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CONTENTS
VOLUME III
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| Chapter I. Neuve Chapelle and Warin Blood-Soaked Trenches | |
|---|---|
| War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolationof No Man’s Land—Subterranean Tactics Continuing OverFour Years—Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives forEvery Foot of Gain | [ 1] |
| Chapter II. Italy Declares War onAustria | |
| Her Great Decision—D’Annunzio, Poet and Patriot—ItaliaIrredenta—German Indignation—The Campaignson the Isonzo and in the Tyrol | [ 29] |
| Chapter III. Glorious Gallipoli | |
| A Titanic Enterprise—Its Objects—Disasters and Deedsof Deathless Glory—The Heroic Anzacs—Bloody Dashes upImpregnable Slopes—Silently they Stole Away—A SuccessfulFailure | [ 58] |
| Chapter IV. The Greatest NavalBattle in History | |
| The Battle of Jutland—Every Factor on Sea and in SkyFavorable to the Germans—Low Visibility a Great Factor—AModern Sea Battle—Light Cruisers Screening BattleshipSquadron—Germans Run Away when British FleetMarshals Its Full Strength—Death of Lord Kitchener | [ 78] |
| Chapter V. The Russian Campaign | |
| The Advance on Cracow—Von Hindenburg Strikes atWarsaw—German Barbarism—The War in Galicia—TheFall of Przemysl—Russia’s Ammunition Fails—The RussianRetreat—The Fall of Warsaw—The Last Stand—Czernowitz | [ 104] |
| Chapter VI. How the Balkans Decided | |
| Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon Joining Germany—DramaticScene in the King’s Palace—The Die is Cast—BulgariaSuccumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang—GreeceMobilizes—French and British Troops at Saloniki—SerbiaOver-run—Roumania’s Disastrous Venture in the Arenaof Mars | [ 145] |
| Chapter VII. The Campaign in Mesopotamia | |
| British Army Threatening Bagdad Besieged in Kut-el-Amara—AfterHeroic Defense General Townshend Surrendersafter 143 Days of Siege—New British ExpeditionRecaptures Kut—Troops Push on Up the Tigris—Fall ofBagdad the Magnificent | [ 187] |
| Chapter VIII. Immortal Verdun | |
| Grave of the Military Reputations of von Falkenhayn andthe Crown Prince—Hindenburg’s Warning—Why the GermansMade the Disastrous Attempt to Capture the GreatFortress—Heroic France Reveals Itself to the World—“TheyShall Not Pass”—Nivelle’s Glorious Stand onDead Man Hill—Lord Northcliffe’s Description—A DefenseUnsurpassed in the History of France | [ 209] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME III
| The Thrill of Old-Time War | [ Frontispiece] |
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| The Glorious Charge of the Ninth Lancers | [ 4] |
| Charging Through Barbed-Wire Entanglements | [ 6] |
| British Indian Troops Charging the GermanTrenches at Neuve Chapelle | [ 10] |
| Charging on German Trenches in Gas Masks | [ 12] |
| An Incident of the War in Flanders | [ 18] |
| Italy’s Titanic Labor to Conquer the Alps | [ 30] |
| Waiting the Order to Attack | [ 38] |
| Transporting Wounded Amid the Difficultiesof the Italian Mountain Front | [ 42] |
| The Loss of the “Irresistible” | [ 68] |
| The Historic Landing from the “River Clyde”at Seddul Bahr | [ 76] |
| Admiral William S. Sims | [ 98] |
| Admiral Sir David Beatty | [ 98] |
| German Frightfulness from the Air | [ 110] |
| Bagdad the Magnificent Falls to the British | [ 208] |
| Ammunition for the Guns | [ 224] |
| How Verdun was Saved | [ 224] |
THE WORLD WAR