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LIST OF MAPS

•  Page
• Strategic Railway System in Eastern Germany Which Made Quick Concentration Possible (Colored Map) Front Insert
• Gallipoli 29
• Kiao-Chau (Tsing-Tau) 43
• German Possessions in Africa 65
• Western Battle Line, January 1, 1915 81
• Neuve Chapelle, Battle at 88
• Ypres, Gas Battle of 113
• Fighting in Alsace-Hartmannsweilerkopf 119
• Artois, Battles in 126
• German Submarine War Zone 172
• Emden Landing Party, Cruise of 195
• Carpathian Passes and Russian Battle Line 237
• Przemysl, Detail Maps of the Forts of 248
• Galician Campaign from Tarnow to Przemysl 279
• Galician Campaign from Przemysl TO Bessarabia 291
• Riga, German Advance on 338
• Warsaw, German Attempts to Reach, in 1914 358
• Warsaw, Advance and Capture of 367
• Coasts of Italy and Austria, Showing the Naval Raid in May, 1915 395
• Austria, Italian Attack on 410
• Dardanelles, Pictorial Map of, Showing Where the Allies Landed 439
• German Southwest Africa, Conquest of 491
• Mesopotamia—The British Operations from the Persian Gulf 499
• Suez Canal, Turkish Attack on 506

Strategic Railway System in Eastern Germany which made quick Concentration possible.

PART I—RUSSIAN AND TURKISH CAMPAIGN

CHAPTER I

CAMPAIGN IN THE CAUCASUS

Disquieting as was the British offensive in Mesopotamia, the Turkish General Staff were not to be drawn by it from considerations of larger strategy. Acting in agreement with the German and Austrian General Staffs, plans were rapidly pushed for an aggressive offensive in the Caucasus, that old-time battling ground of the Russians and the Turks. Germany was being hotly pressed in France by the armies of Belgium, France, and England, and feared an offensive on the part of the Russian army.

Across the great isthmus separating the Caspian and Black Seas run the Caucasus Mountains. Parallel to this range of towering mountains, the highest in Europe, runs the frontier line of Russia and Turkey and Russia and Persia, winding in and out among the Trans-Caucasian Mountains. About two hundred miles from the Russo-Turkish frontier stands Tiflis, the rich and ancient capital of Georgia, and one of the prime