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The Project Gutenberg eBook, History of the World War, Vol. 3, by Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish, Illustrated by James H. Hare and Donald Thompson
Title: History of the World War, Vol. 3
Author: Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
Release Date: July 13, 2005 [eBook #16282]
Language: en
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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THE THRILL OF OLD-TIME WAR
The stirrup charge of the Scots Greys at St. Quentin. Holding on to the stirrup leathers of the cavalry the Highlanders crashed like an avalanche upon the German lines, tearing great gaps in their massed formations.
COMPLETE EDITION
HISTORY OF THE
WORLD WAR
VOLUME III
An Authentic Narrative of
The World's Greatest War
By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D.
In Collaboration with
RICHARD J. BEAMISH
Special War Correspondent
and Military Analyst
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
CONTENTS
VOLUME III
| CHAPTER I. NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR | PAGE | |
| IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES | ||
| War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation of No Man's Land—Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over Four Years—Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for Every Foot of Gain |
1 | |
| CHAPTER II. ITALY DECLARES WAR ON | ||
| AUSTRIA | ||
| Her Great Decision—D'Annunzio, Poet and Patriot—Italia on the Isonzo and in the Tyrol Irredenta—German Indignation—The Campaigns |
29 | |
| CHAPTER III. GLORIOUS GALLIPOLI | ||
| A Titanic Enterprise—Its Objects—Disasters and Deeds of Deathless Glory—The Heroic Anzacs—Bloody Dashes up Impregnable Slopes—Silently they Stole Away—A Successful Failure |
58 | |
| CHAPTER IV. THE GREATEST NAVAL | ||
| BATTLE IN HISTORY | ||
| The Battle of Jutland—Every Factor on Sea and in Sky Favorable to the Germans—Low Visibility a Great Factor—A Modern Sea Battle—Light Cruisers Screening Battleship Squadron—Germans Run Away when British Fleet Marshals Its Full Strength—Death of Lord Kitchener |
78 | |
| CHAPTER V. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN | ||
| The Advance on Cracow—Von Hindenburg Strikes at Warsaw—German Barbarism—The War in Galicia—The Fall of Przemysl—Russia's Ammunition Fails—The Russian Retreat—The Fall of Warsaw—The Last Stand—Czernowitz |
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| CHAPTER VI. HOW THE BALKANS DECIDED | ||
| Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon Joining Germany—Dramatic Scene in the King's Palace—The Die is Cast—Bulgaria Succumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang—Greece Mobilizes—French and British Troops at Saloniki—Serbia Over-run—Roumania's Disastrous Venture in the Arena of Mars |
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| CHAPTER VII. THE |