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
Chapters
1 The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece 3 min 2 The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note 3 min 3 The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton 13 min 4 Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure 8 min 5 Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren 8 min 6 The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot 14 min 7 Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 6 min 8 The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note 3 min 9 The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall 13 min 10 The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay 9 min 11 En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 16 min 12 The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke 6 min 13 The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note 3 min 14 The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer 13 min 15 A gas attack, photograph p. 62 2 min 16 The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton 22 min 17 The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green 18 min 18 A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke 12 min 19 The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay 15 min 20 Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 2 min 21 The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae 21 min 22 The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note 3 min 23 The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard 24 min 24 The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 3 min 25 Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun 7 min 26 The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay 20 min 27 A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 2 min 28 The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) 8 min 29 Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 3 min 30 The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs 24 min 31 The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman 17 min 32 The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note 3 min 33 Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler 15 min 34 The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares 7 min 35 The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton 11 min 36 Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 1 min 37 A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave 9 min 38 Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner 9 min 39 From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross 14 min 40 The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note 3 min 41 The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones 12 min 42 Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell 13 min 43 General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell 13 min 44 With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark 16 min 45 The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey 12 min 46 ''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 3 min 47 The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note 2 min 48 The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 13 min 49 The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay 10 min 50 A description of trench life, by René Nicolas 8 min 51 The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan 6 min 52 The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note 3 min 53 The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson 31 min 54 German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 3 min 55 The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe 16 min 56 The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton 15 min 57 British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 3 min 58 The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note 3 min 59 The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble 12 min 60 The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon 14 min 61 The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon 22 min 62 The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman 12 min 63 The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note 3 min 64 The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat 10 min 65 Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner 18 min 66 The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon 12 min 67 The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note 3 min 68 Flying in the war-zone, by Theta 13 min 69 A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 3 min 70 A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman 18 min 71 A great air battle, by a British war correspondent 9 min 72 The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note 2 min 73 Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer 27 min 74 The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A 4 min 75 American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 2 min 76 With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell 13 min 77 With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson 13 min 78 Wonders of war surgery (1917) 15 min 79 The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note 2 min 80 The American Red Cross 4 min 81 Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer 8 min 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 21 min 83 A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 2 min 84 The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note 3 min 85 Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton 24 min 86 Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 2 min 87 The cost of the war 14 min 88 The human cost 15 min 89 The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note 2 min 90 The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 20 min 91 With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo 16 min 92 The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson 12 min
