World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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In Category - War & Military Fiction, Modern (20th C)

Authors: Horatio W. Dresser In Year : 1918

Book Language: English

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The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece

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The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece
The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note
The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton
Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure
Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren
The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot
Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note
The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall
The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay
En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke
The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note
The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer
A gas attack, photograph p. 62
The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton
The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green
A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke
The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay
Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100
The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae
The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note
The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard
The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134
Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun
The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay
A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148
The battle of Messines Ridge (1917)
Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162
The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs
The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman
The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note
Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler
The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares
The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton
Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204
A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave
Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner
From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross
The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note
The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones
Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell
General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell
With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark
The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey
''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266
The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note
The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay
A description of trench life, by René Nicolas
The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan
The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note
The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson
German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312
The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe
The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton
British tanks in action, photograph p. 332
The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note
The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble
The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon
The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon
The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman
The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note
The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat
Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner
The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon
The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note
Flying in the war-zone, by Theta
A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402
A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman
A great air battle, by a British war correspondent
The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note
Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer
The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A.
American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440
With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell
With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson
Wonders of war surgery (1917)
The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note
The American Red Cross
Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer
The 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.
A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476
The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note
Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton
Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488
The cost of the war
The human cost
The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note
The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo
The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson

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