قراءة كتاب History of the World War, Vol. 3
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CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA
Heroic Defense General Townshend Surrenders
after 143 Days of Siege—New British Expedition
Recaptures Kut—Troops Push on Up the Tigris—Fall of
Bagdad the Magnificent
the Crown Prince—Hindenburg's Warning—Why the Germans
Made the Disastrous Attempt to Capture the Great
Fortress—Heroic France Reveals Itself to the World—"They
Shall Not Pass"—Nivelle's Glorious Stand on
Dead Man Hill—Lord Northcliffe's Description—A Defense
Unsurpassed in the History of France
ILLUSTRATIONS
VOLUME III
| The Thrill of Old-time War | Frontispiece |
| Page | |
| The Glorious Charge of the Ninth Lancers | 4 |
| Charging Through Barbed Wire Entanglements | 6 |
| British Indian Troops Charging the German | |
| Trenches 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 Difficulties | |
| of 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
CHAPTER I
NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES
After the immortal stand of Joffre at the first battle of the Marne and the sudden savage thrust at the German center which sent von Kluck and his men reeling back in retreat to the prepared defenses along the line of the Aisne, the war in the western theater resolved itself into a play for position from deep intrenchments. Occasionally would come a sudden big push by one side or the other in which artillery was massed until hub touched hub and infantry swept to glory and death in waves of gray, or blue or khaki as the case might be. But these tremendous efforts and consequent slaughters did not change the long battle line from the Alps to the North Sea materially. Here and there a bulge would be made by the terrific pressure of men and material in some great assault like that first push of the British at Neuve Chapelle, like the German attack at Verdun or like the tremendous efforts by both sides on that bloodiest of all battlefields, the Somme.
Neuve Chapelle deserves particular mention as the test in which the British soldiers demonstrated their might in equal contest against the enemy. There had been a disposition in England as elsewhere up to that time to rate the Germans as supermen, to exalt the potency of the scientific equipment with which the German army had taken the field. When the battle of Neuve Chapelle had been fought, although its losses
