The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War


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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

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The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece 2:56 Lu par Sonia
The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note 2:33 Lu par Sonia
The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton 13:09 Lu par Ezwa
Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure 8:13 Lu par Ezwa
Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren 7:34 Lu par Ezwa
The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot 13:36 Lu par Devorah Allen
Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 6:10 Lu par Wayne Cooke
The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note 3:11 Lu par Wayne Cooke
The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall 13:07 Lu par April6090
The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay 9:03 Lu par KuyaCarrot
En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 16:29 Lu par April6090
The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke 6:14 Lu par atelo
The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note 2:47 Lu par Devorah Allen
The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer 12:35 Lu par Colleen McMahon
A gas attack, photograph p. 62 2:26 Lu par Tomas Peter
The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton 21:51 Lu par Colleen McMahon
The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green 18:02 Lu par Colleen McMahon
A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke 12:17 Lu par Colleen McMahon
The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay 14:53 Lu par Colleen McMahon
Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 2:27 Lu par Availle
The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae 21:03 Lu par Jim Locke
The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note 2:42 Lu par BettyB
The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard 24:14 Lu par janop
The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 3:02 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun 7:28 Lu par Tomas Peter
The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay 20:07 Lu par Jim Locke
A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 1:47 Lu par April6090
The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) 7:38 Lu par akatsu
Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 2:31 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs 23:45 Lu par EmilioC
The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman 16:42 Lu par Jim Locke
The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note 2:34 Lu par Tomas Peter
Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler 15:17 Lu par Availle
The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares 7:02 Lu par Piotr Nater
The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton 11:01 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 1:13 Lu par Alan Mapstone
A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave 9:25 Lu par Brittany Bogle
Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner 8:36 Lu par Brittany Bogle
From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross 13:56 Lu par Jim Locke
The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note 2:51 Lu par Devorah Allen
The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones 12:30 Lu par Brittany Bogle
Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell 12:56 Lu par KuyaCarrot
General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell 12:41 Lu par Jim Locke
With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark 16:06 Lu par Jim Locke
The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey 11:47 Lu par BettyB
''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 2:43 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note 2:15 Lu par Piotr Nater
The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 12:46 Lu par April6090
The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay 9:32 Lu par Brittany Bogle
A description of trench life, by René Nicolas 7:33 Lu par Tomas Peter
The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan 5:58 Lu par Piotr Nater
The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note 2:45 Lu par Tim811
The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson 30:51 Lu par Jim Locke
German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 2:46 Lu par Jim Locke
The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe 15:43 Lu par Jim Locke
The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton 15:11 Lu par Jim Locke
British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 3:12 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note 2:48 Lu par BettyB
The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble 12:00 Lu par Colleen McMahon
The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon 13:35 Lu par Jim Locke
The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon 21:51 Lu par KevinS
The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman 12:06 Lu par Alan Dove
The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note 2:34 Lu par ToddHW
The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat 10:26 Lu par Availle
Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner 18:15 Lu par Piotr Nater
The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon 12:12 Lu par Availle
The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note 2:52 Lu par Alan Mapstone
Flying in the war-zone, by Theta 12:50 Lu par Availle
A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 2:40 Lu par Alan Mapstone
A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman 18:10 Lu par Wayne Cooke
A great air battle, by a British war correspondent 8:41 Lu par Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note 2:04 Lu par ToddHW
Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer 27:04 Lu par Jim Locke
The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A. 4:29 Lu par ToddHW
American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 2:22 Lu par ToddHW
With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell 13:15 Lu par Devorah Allen
With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson 12:48 Lu par EmilioC
Wonders of war surgery (1917) 15:15 Lu par April6090
The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note 2:18 Lu par Tomas Peter
The American Red Cross 4:21 Lu par Heather Eney
Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer 8:15 Lu par Jim Locke
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. 20:34 Lu par Jim Locke
A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 2:07 Lu par Tomas Peter
The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note 2:36 Lu par Jim Locke
Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton 23:54 Lu par Jim Locke
Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 2:11 Lu par Sonia
The cost of the war 14:20 Lu par Jim Locke
The human cost 14:39 Lu par Jim Locke
The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note 2:21 Lu par ToddHW
The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 20:19 Lu par ToddHW
With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo 16:07 Lu par Jim Locke
The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson 12:18 Lu par ToddHW