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The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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Number of Chapters: 92

Length: 15 hours and 44 minutes

Language: English

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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The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece (Sonia)
The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note (Sonia)
The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton (Ezwa)
Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure (Ezwa)
Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren (Ezwa)
The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot (Devorah Allen)
Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson (Wayne Cooke)
The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note (Wayne Cooke)
The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall (April6090)
The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay (KuyaCarrot)
En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall (April6090)
The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke (atelo)
The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note (Devorah Allen)
The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer (Colleen McMahon)
A gas attack, photograph p. 62 (Tomas Peter)
The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton (Colleen McMahon)
The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green (Colleen McMahon)
A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke (Colleen McMahon)
The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay (Colleen McMahon)
Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 (Availle)
The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae (Jim Locke)
The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note (BettyB)
The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard (janop)
The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 (Alan Mapstone)
Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun (Tomas Peter)
The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay (Jim Locke)
A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 (April6090)
The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) (akatsu)
Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 (Alan Mapstone)
The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs (EmilioC)
The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman (Jim Locke)
The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note (Tomas Peter)
Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler (Availle)
The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares (Piotr Nater)
The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton (Alan Mapstone)
Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 (Alan Mapstone)
A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave (Brittany Bogle)
Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner (Brittany Bogle)
From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross (Jim Locke)
The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note (Devorah Allen)
The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones (Brittany Bogle)
Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell (KuyaCarrot)
General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell (Jim Locke)
With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark (Jim Locke)
The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey (BettyB)
''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 (Alan Mapstone)
The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note (Piotr Nater)
The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall (April6090)
The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay (Brittany Bogle)
A description of trench life, by René Nicolas (Tomas Peter)
The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan (Piotr Nater)
The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note (Tim811)
The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson (Jim Locke)
German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 (Jim Locke)
The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe (Jim Locke)
The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton (Jim Locke)
British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 (Alan Mapstone)
The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note (BettyB)
The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble (Colleen McMahon)
The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon (Jim Locke)
The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon (KevinS)
The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman (Alan Dove)
The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note (ToddHW)
The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat (Availle)
Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner (Piotr Nater)
The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon (Availle)
The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note (Alan Mapstone)
Flying in the war-zone, by Theta (Availle)
A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 (Alan Mapstone)
A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman (Wayne Cooke)
A great air battle, by a British war correspondent (Alan Mapstone)
The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note (ToddHW)
Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer (Jim Locke)
The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A. (ToddHW)
American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 (ToddHW)
With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell (Devorah Allen)
With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson (EmilioC)
Wonders of war surgery (1917) (April6090)
The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note (Tomas Peter)
The American Red Cross (Heather Eney)
Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer (Jim Locke)
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. (Jim Locke)
A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 (Tomas Peter)
The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note (Jim Locke)
Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton (Jim Locke)
Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 (Sonia)
The cost of the war (Jim Locke)
The human cost (Jim Locke)
The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note (ToddHW)
The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson (ToddHW)
With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo (Jim Locke)
The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson (ToddHW)
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