Category: History - American
A Conflict that was Inevitable--The Flower of Manhood on the Fields of France--Germany’s Defiance to the World--Heroic Belgium--Four Autocratic Nations against Twenty-four Committed to the Principles of Liberty--America’s Titanic Effort--Four Million Men Under Arms, Two Millio...
A Conflict that was Inevitable--The Flower of Manhood on the Fields of France--Germany’s Defiance to the World--Heroic Belgium--Four Autocratic Nations against Twenty-four Commi...
2. CHAPTER II. THE WORLD SUDDENLY TURNED UPSIDE DOWN3. CHAPTER III. WHY THE WORLD WENT TO WAR4. CHAPTER IV. THE PLOTTER BEHIND THE SCENE5. CHAPTER V. THE GREAT WAR BEGINSGermany Invades Belgium and Luxemburg--French Invade Alsace--England’s “Contemptible Little Army” Lands in France and Belgium--The Murderous Gray-Green Tide--Heroic Retreat of t...
6. CHAPTER VI. THE TRAIL OF THE BEAST IN BELGIUMBarbarities that Shocked Humanity--Planned as Part of the Teutonic Policy of _Schrecklichkeit_--How the German and the Hun Became Synonymous Terms--The Unmatchable Crimes of a W...
7. CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNEJoffre’s Masterly Plan--The Enemy Trapped Between Verdun and Paris--Gallieni’s “Army in Taxicabs”--Foch, the “Savior of Civilization,” Appears--His Mighty Thrust Routs the Army...
8. CHAPTER VIII. JAPAN IN THE WARTsing-Tau Seized by the Mikado--German “Gibraltar” of Far East Surrendered After Short Siege--Japan’s Aid to the Allies in Money, Ships, Men and Nurses--German Propaganda in the...
9. CHAPTER IX. CAMPAIGN IN THE EAST10. CHAPTER X. NEW METHODS AND HORRORS OF WARFARETanks--Poison Gas--Flame Projectors--Airplane Bombs--Trench Mortars--Machine Guns--Modern Uses of Airplanes for Liaison and Attacks on Infantry--Radio--Rifle and Hand Grenades--...
11. VOLUME I12. CHAPTER ISpeaking to the Congress and the people of the United States, President Wilson made this declaration on November 11, 1918. A few hours before he made this statement, Germany, th...
13. CHAPTER IIDemoralization, like the black plague of the middle ages, spread in every direction immediately following the first overt acts of war. Men who were millionaires at nightfall awo...
14. act I have not the slightest doubt. I am confident that Washington willA crowd filled the Ambassador’s office on the first floor of the flat building, in Victoria Street, which was mainly composed of women, school teachers, art students, and other...
15. CHAPTER IIIWhile it is true that the war was conceived in Berlin, it is none the less true that it was born in the Balkans. It is necessary in order that we may view with correct perspecti...
16. CHAPTER IVOne factor alone caused the great war. It was not the assassination at Sarajevo, not the Slavic ferment of anti-Teutonism in Austria and the Balkans. The only cause of the world...
17. CHAPTER VYears before 1914, when Germany declared war against civilization, it was decided by the German General Staff to strike at France through Belgium. The records of the German Fore...
18. CHAPTER VIGermany’s onrush into heroic Belgium speedily resolved itself into a saturnalia that drenched the land with blood and roused the civilized world into resentful horror. As the ti...
19. CHAPTER VIIThis in a nutshell embraces the dramatic opening and closing episodes of the World War on the soil of France. Bracketed between these two glorious victories were the agonies of...
20. CHAPTER VIIIOn August 15, 1914, the Empire of Japan issued an ultimatum to Germany. She demanded the evacuation of Tsing-tau, the disarming of the warships there and the handing over of the...
21. CHAPTER IXLong before the declaration of war the German military experts had made their plans. They recognized that in case of war with Russia, France would come to the rescue of its ally...
22. CHAPTER XWhen Germany embarked upon its policy of frightfulness, it held in reserve murderous inventions that had been contributed to the German General Staff by chemists and other scien...