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History of the World War, Vol. 3

Creator: Beamish, Richard Joseph, 1879-, March, Francis Andrew, 1863-
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CONTENTS VOLUME III PAGE CHAPTER I. NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation of No Man's Land--Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over Four Years--Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for Every Foot of Gain 1 CHAPTER II. ITALY DECLARES WAR ON AUSTRIA Her Great Decision--D'Annunzio, Poet and Patriot--Italia Irredenta--German Indignation--The Campaigns on the Isonzo and in the Tyrol 29 CHAPTER III. GLORIOUS GALLIPOLI A Titanic Enterprise--Its Objects--Disasters and Deeds


WOUNDED IN THE HOUSE OF A FRIEND. CHAPTER I. SNOW had been falling for more than three hours, the large flakes dropping silently through the still air until the earth was covered with an even carpet many inches in depth. It was past midnight. The air, which had been so still, was growing restless and beginning to whirl the snow into eddies and drive it about in an angry kind of way, whistling around sharp corners and rattling every loose sign and shutter upon which it could lay its invisible hands. In front of an elegant residence stood half a dozen carriages. The glare of light from hall and windows and the sound of music and dancing told of a festival within. The door opened, and a group of
of Deathless Glory--The Heroic Anzacs--Bloody Dashes up Impregnable Slopes--Silently they Stole Away--A Successful Failure 58 CHAPTER IV. THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE IN HISTORY The Battle of Jutland--Every Factor on Sea and in Sky Favorable to the Germans--Low Visibility a Great Factor--A Modern Sea Battle--Light Cruisers Screening Battleship Squadron--Germans Run Away when British Fleet Marshals Its Full Strength--Death of Lord Kitchener 78 CHAPTER V. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN The Advance on Cracow--Von Hindenburg Strikes at Warsaw--German Barbarism--The War in Galicia--The Fall of Przemysl--Russia's Ammunition Fails--The Russian Retreat--The Fall of Warsaw--The Last Stand--Czernowitz 104 CHAPTER VI. HOW THE BALKANS DECIDED