History of the World War, Volume 4 (of 7)

Enthusiastic Response to the Call to Action--Valcartier Camp a Splendid Example of the Driving Power of Sir Sam Hughes--Thirty-three Liners Cross the Atlantic with First Conting...

First Zeppelin Attack Kills Twenty-eight and Injures Forty-four--Part of Germany’s Policy of Frightfulness--Raids by German Airplanes on Unfortified Towns--Killing of Non-Combat...

Rasputin, the Mystic--The Cry for Bread--Rise of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates--Rioting in Petrograd--The Threatening Cloud of Disaster--Moderate Policy of th...

Russia Intoxicated with Freedom--Elihu Root and his Mission--Last Brilliant Offensive in Galicia--The Great Mutiny in the Army--The Battalion of Death--Kerensky’s Skyrocket Care...

Two Voyages of the Deutschland--U-53 German Submarine Reaches Newport and Sinks Five British and Neutral Steamers off Nantucket--Rescue of Survivors by United States Warships--A...

The United States Enters the Conflict--The Efficiency of Democracy--Six Months in an American Training Camp Equal to Six Years of German Compulsory Service--American Soldiers an...

The American Farmer a Potent Factor in Civilization’s Victory--Scientific Studies of Food Production, Distribution and Consumption--Hoover Lays Down the Law Regulating Wholesale...

Increase from 58,000 Men to Approximately 500,000--Destroyer Fleet Arrives in British Waters--“We are Ready Now”--The Hunt of the U-Boats--Gunnery that is Unrivalled--Depth Char...

How the Germans Behaved in China Seventeen Years Before--The Whirligig of Time Brings Its Own Revenge--The Far Eastern Republic Joins Hands with the Allies--German Propaganda at...

Subtle Socialist Gospel Preached by Enemy Plays Havoc with Guileless Italians--Sudden Onslaught of Germans Drives Cadorna’s Men from Heights--The Spectacular Retreat that Dismay...

When, in August, 1914, war burst suddenly upon a peaceful world like distant thunder in a cloudless summer sky, Canada, like the rest of the British Empire, was profoundly start...

First to feel the effects of German terrorism through poison gas were the gallant Canadian troops on the afternoon of April 22, 1915, at Ypres, Belgium. Gas had been used by the...

Many examples might be cited to show that the Central empires were dead to the humanities. There were apparently no limits to the brutality of the German war-makers. Among the o...

The idea of warfare in the air has been a dream of romancers from a period long before Jules Verne. Indeed, balloons were used for observation purposes in the eighteenth century...

The Russian Revolution was not a sudden movement of the people. Long before the war it had raised its head. The Duma itself came into existence as one of its fruits; but when th...

The hopes entertained for the new Republic of Russia were doomed to disappointment. For a short time, under the leadership of Lvov, the Russians marched along the path of true d...

During the first two years of the war many Americans, especially those in the West, observed the great events which were happening with great interest, no doubt, but with a feel...

When Germany threw down the gauge of battle to the civilized world, the German High Command calculated that the long, rigorous and thorough military training to which every male...

Food won the war. Without the American farmer the Entente Allies must have capitulated. Wheat, beef, corn, foods of every variety, hermetically sealed in tins, were thrown into...

Long before war was declared the United States Government had been engaged in preparation. It had realized that unrestricted submarine warfare was sure to lead to war, and thoug...

The circumstances connected with the entrance of the Republic of China into the World War were as follows: On February 4, 1917, the American Minister, Dr. Reinsch, requested the...

None of the surprises of the World War brought such sudden and stunning dismay to the Entente Allies as the news of the Italian disaster beginning October 24, 1917, and terminat...