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World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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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

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  • 01
    The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece
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  • 02
    The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note
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  • 03
    The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton
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  • 04
    Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure
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  • 05
    Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren
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  • 06
    The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot
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  • 07
    Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
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  • 08
    The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note
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  • 09
    The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall
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  • 10
    The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay
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  • 11
    En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
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  • 12
    The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke
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  • 13
    The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note
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  • 14
    The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer
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  • 15
    A gas attack, photograph p. 62
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  • 16
    The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton
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  • 17
    The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green
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  • 18
    A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke
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  • 19
    The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay
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  • 20
    Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100
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  • 21
    The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae
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  • 22
    The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note
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  • 23
    The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard
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  • 24
    The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134
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  • 25
    Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun
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  • 26
    The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay
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  • 27
    A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148
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  • 28
    The battle of Messines Ridge (1917)
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  • 29
    Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162
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  • 30
    The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs
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  • 31
    The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman
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  • 32
    The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note
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  • 33
    Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler
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  • 34
    The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares
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  • 35
    The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton
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  • 36
    Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204
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  • 37
    A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave
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  • 38
    Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner
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  • 39
    From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross
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  • 40
    The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note
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  • 41
    The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones
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  • 42
    Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell
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  • 43
    General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell
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  • 44
    With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark
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  • 45
    The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey
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  • 46
    ''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266
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    The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note
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    The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
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  • 49
    The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay
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  • 50
    A description of trench life, by René Nicolas
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  • 51
    The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan
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    The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note
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    The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson
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    German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312
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  • 55
    The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe
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  • 56
    The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton
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    British tanks in action, photograph p. 332
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    The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note
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  • 59
    The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble
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  • 60
    The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon
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  • 61
    The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon
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  • 62
    The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman
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    The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note
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    The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat
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    Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner
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    The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon
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    The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note
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    Flying in the war-zone, by Theta
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    A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402
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  • 70
    A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman
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  • 71
    A great air battle, by a British war correspondent
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    The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note
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    Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer
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    The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A
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    American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440
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    With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell
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  • 77
    With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson
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  • 78
    Wonders of war surgery (1917)
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    The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note
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  • 80
    The American Red Cross
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    Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer
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  • 82
    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
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    A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476
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  • 84
    The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note
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  • 85
    Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton
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    Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488
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  • 87
    The cost of the war
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  • 88
    The human cost
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  • 89
    The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note
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  • 90
    The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
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  • 91
    With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo
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  • 92
    The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson
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