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