# The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time

Author: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941

Genre: World War I

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41252

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Assault%3A+Germany+Before+the+Outbreak+and+England+in+War-Time+Wile&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Countess Hannah von Bismarck missed her aim. The beribboned bottle of "German champagne" with which she meant truly well to baptize the newest Hamburg-American leviathan of sixty thousand-odd tons on the placid Saturday afternoon of June 20, 1914, went far wide of its mark. The Kaiser, impetuous and resourceful, came gallantly and instantaneously to the rescue. Grabbing the bottle while it still swung unbroken in midair by the black-white-red silken cord which suspended it from the launching pavilion, Imperial William crashed it with accuracy and propelling power a Marathon javelin-thrower might have envied squarely against the vast bow. The granddaughter of the Iron Chancellor, a bit cre...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/22/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-assault-germany-before-the-outbreak-and-england-in-war-time-41252/chapters/1/index.md)