- Bombing and Reconnoissance [475]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Marshal Ferdinand Foch, Generalissimo of the Armies of the Allies [Colored Frontispiece]
- Opposite Page
- The French Victory at Fort Malmaison [46]
- General Diaz with French and Italian Officers [206]
- The Surrender of Jerusalem [222]
- Marshal Foch, King George, Field Marshal Haig, Generals Pétain, Fayolle, Debeney, and Rawlinson [286]
- American Soldiers Storming Cantigny [366]
- Château-Thierry with American Soldiers on Guard [398]
- The Cruiser "Brooklyn" in the Harbor of Vladivostok [446]
- The Cruiser "Vindictive" After the Fight at Zeebrugge [462]
LIST OF MAPS
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- The Western Battle Field, Showing the International Frontiers, the Important Railways, the Position of the Lines at the Culmination of Important Campaigns, and the Battle Front as it Existed in September, 1918 [Colored Insert]
- The Battle Fronts of the Great War—as the Lines Were Drawn in Belgium, France, the Balkans, Italy, Palestine, and Mesopotamia, September, 1918. The Russian Front Had Completely Disappeared [Colored Insert]
- The Western Front from Nancy to Calais (Colored Map) [Front Insert]
- The Western Front, 1917-1918 [11]
- The Taking of Malmaison and Chemin-des-Dames [49]
- The Battle of Cambrai [68]
- American Front in France Where the First Clashes Between Americans and Germans Occurred [87]
- The Italian Advance in Istria [190]
- Different Stages of the Italian Retreat [205]
- The Campaign in Palestine [219]
- The British Advance in Mesopotamia and Palestine [235]
- Five Zeppelins Destroyed After the Air Raid on London, October 19-20, 1917 [263]
- German Offensive from Arras to the Oise, March-June, 1918 [271]
- Range of the German 80-Mile Gun [279]
- German Advance Between Ypres and Arras, March-June, 1918 [292]
- German Drive Toward Paris, Which Began May 27, 1918. This Map Shows the Farthest Advance [309]
- German Thrust South of Ypres and Where It was Stopped [316]
- Where Foch Definitely Stopped the German Offensive, June 14, 1918 [316]
- Line-up at the Great German Offensive, March-June, 1918 [323]
- Allied Counteroffensive on the Marne [326]
- Military Establishments in the United States [345]
- Where American Marines Stopped the German Advance on the Marne [383]
- Austrian Offensive and the Italian Counteroffensive, June-August, 1918 [453]
- The "Montello," Where the Austrian Offensive Broke Down [457]
- Austro-Italian operations on the lower Piave river [457]
- Raids of German Submarines on United States Shipping on the Atlantic Coast [465]
- Italian Naval Exploits [469]
- British Naval Attacks on the German Bases of Zeebrugge and Ostend [472]
PART I—WESTERN FRONT
CHAPTER I
THE FRANCO-BRITISH FORCES VICTORIOUS AT YPRES—GERMANS LOSE GROUND AT LENS
On August 1, 1917, the second day of the Franco-British offensive in Flanders, Field Marshal Haig's troops delivered a counterattack at a late hour of the night against the Germans north of Frezenberg, and close to the Ypres-Roulers railway. The assault, made through heavy rain that transformed the battle field into a morass, was a complete success, the British winning back lost ground on a front of 300 yards, which Prince Rupprecht had captured in a dashing attack a few hours before. At every point in this sector the British succeeded in driving out the enemy and completely reestablished their former lines.