Chapter XXVI: Immortal Verdun

Grave of the Military Reputations of Von Falkenhayn and the Crown
Prince--Hindenburg's Warning--Why the Germans Made the Disastrous
Attempt to Capture the Great Fortress--Heroic France Reveals Itself to
the World--"They Shall Not Pass"--Nivelle's Glorious Stand on Dead Man
Hill--Lord Northcliffe's Description--A Defense Unsurpassed in the
History of France

CHAPTER XXVII. MURDERS AND MARTYRS
The Case of Edith Cavell--Nurse Who Befriended the Helpless, Dies at
the Hands of the Germans--Captain Fryatt's Martyrdom--How Germany
Sowed the Seeds of Disaster

CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SECOND BATTLE OF YPRES
The Canadians in Action--Undismayed by the New Weapon of the
Enemy--Holding the Line Against Terrific Odds--Men from the Dominion
Fight Like Veterans

CHAPTER XXIX. ZEPPELIN RAIDS ON FRANCE AND ENGLAND
First Zeppelin Attack Kills Twenty-eight and Injures Forty-four--Part
of Germany's Policy of Frightfulness--Raids by German Airplanes on
Unfortified Towns--Killing of Non-Combatants--The British Lion
Awakes--Anti-Aircraft Precautions and Protections--Policy of Terrorism
Fails

CHAPTER XXX. RED REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
Rasputin, the Mystic--The Cry for Bread--Rise of the Council of
Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates--Rioting in Petrograd--The
Threatening Cloud of Disaster--Moderate Policy of the Duma Fails--The
Fatal Easter Week of 1917--Abdication of the Czar--Last Tragic Moments
of the Autocrat of All the Russias--Grand Duke Issues Declaration
Ending Power of Romanovs in Russia--Release of Siberian
Revolutionists--Free Russia

CHAPTER XXXI. THE DESCENT TO BOLSHEVISM
Russia Intoxicated with Freedom--Elihu Root and His Mission--Last
Brilliant Offensive in Galicia--The Great Mutiny in the Army--The
Battalion of Death--Kerensky's Skyrocket Career--Kornilov's
Revolt--Loss of Riga--Lenine, the Dictator--The Impossible "Peace" of
Brest-Litovsk

CHAPTER XXXII. GERMANY'S OBJECT LESSON TO THE UNITED STATES
Two Voyages of the Deutschland--U-53 German Submarine Reaches Newport
and Sinks Five British and Neutral Steamers off Nantucket--Rescue of
Survivors by United States Warships--Anti-German Feeling in America
Reaching a Climax

CHAPTER XXXIII. AMERICA TRANSFORMED BY WAR
The United States Enters the Conflict--The Efficiency of Democracy--
Six Months in an American Training Camp Equal to Six Years of German
Compulsory Service--American Soldiers and Their Resourcefulness on
the Battlefield--Methods of Training and Their Results--
The S. A. T. C.

CHAPTER XXXIV. HOW FOOD WON THE WAR
The American Farmer a Potent Factor in Civilization's
Victory--Scientific Studies of Food Production, Distribution and
Consumption--Hoover Lays Down the Law Regulating Wholesalers and
Grocers--Getting the Food Across--Feeding Armies in the Field

CHAPTER XXXV. THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE WAR
Increase from 58,000 Men to Approximately 500,000--Destroyer Fleet
Arrives in British Waters--"We Are Ready Now"--The Hunt of the
U-Boats--Gunnery that is Unrivalled--Depth Charges and Other New
Inventions--The U-Boat Menace Removed--Surrender of German Under-Sea
Navy

CHAPTER XXXVI. CHINA JOINS THE FIGHTING DEMOCRACIES
How the Germans Behaved in China Seventeen Years Before--The Whirligig
of Time Brings Its Own Revenge--The Far Eastern Republic Joins Hands
with the Allies--German Propaganda at Work--Futile Attempt to Restore
the Monarchy--Fear of Japan--War--Thousands of Chinese Toil Behind the
Battle Lines in France--Siam with Its Eight Millions Defies the
Germans--End of Teuton Influence in the Orient

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE DEFEAT AND RECOVERY OF ITALY
Subtle Socialist Gospel Preached by Enemy Plays Havoc with Guileless
Italians--Sudden Onslaught of Germans Drives Cadorna's Men from
Heights--The Spectacular Retreat that Dismayed the World--Glorious
Stand of the Italians on the Piave--Rise of Diaz

CHAPTER XXXVIII. REDEMPTION OF THE HOLY LAND
A Long Campaign Progressing Through Hardships to Glory--General
Allenby Enters Jerusalem on Foot--Turkish Army Crushed in Palestine--
Battle of Armageddon

CHAPTER XXXIX. AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS
Government Ownership of Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones--Getting the
Men from Training Camps to the Battle Fronts--From Texas to Toul--A
Gigantic System Working Without a Hitch

CHAPTER XL. SHIPS AND THE MEN WHO MADE THEM
The Emergency Fleet Corporation--Charles M. Schwab as Master
Shipbuilder--Hog Island the Wonder Shipyard of the World--An
Unbeatable Record--Concrete Ships--Wooden Ships--Standardizing the
Steel Ship--Attitude of Labor in the War--Samuel Gompers an Unofficial
Member of the Cabinet--Great Task of the United States Employment
Service

CHAPTER XLI. GERMANY'S DYING DESPERATE EFFORT
The High Tide of German Success--An Army of Six Million Men Flung
Recklessly on the Allies--Most Terrific Battles in all History--The
Red Ruin of War from Arras to St. Quentin--Amiens Within Arms' Reach
of the Invaders--Paris Bombarded by Long-Range Guns from Distance of
Seventy-six Miles--A Generalissimo at Last--Marshal Foch in Supreme
Command

CHAPTER XLII. CHATEAU-THIERRY, FIELD OF GLORY
German Wave Stops with the Americans--Prussian Guard Flung Back--The
Beginning of Autocracy's End--America's Record of Valor and Victory--
Cantigny--Belleau Wood--Thierry--St. Mihiel--Shock Troops of
the Enemy Annihilated--Soldier's Remarkable Letter.

CHAPTER XLIII. ENGLAND AND FRANCE STRIKE IN THE NORTH
Second Terrific Blow of General Foch--Lens, the Storehouse of
Minerals, Captured--Bapaume Retaken--British Snap the Famous
Hindenburg Line--The Great Thrust Through Cambrai--Tanks to the
Front--Cavalry in Action

CHAPTER XLIV. BELGIUM'S GALLANT EFFORT
The Little Army Under King Albert Thrusts Savagely at the
Germans--Ostend and Zeebrugge Freed from the Submarine
Pirates--Pathetic Scenes as Belgians are Restored to Their Homes

CHAPTER XLV. ITALY'S TERRIFIC DRIVE
Enemy Offensive Opens on Front of Ninety-Seven Miles--Repulse of the
Austrians--Italy Turns the Tables--Terrific Counter-Thrusts from the
Piave to Trente--Forcing the Alpine Passages--Battles High in the
Air--English, French and Americans Back up the Italians in Humbling
the Might of Austria--D'Annunzio's Romantic Bombardment of
Vienna--Diaz Leads his Men to Victory

CHAPTER XLVI. BULGARIA DESERTS GERMANY
Greece in the Throes of Revolution--Fall of Constantine--Serbians
Begin Advance on Bulgars--Thousands of Prisoners Taken--Surrender of
Bulgaria--Panic in Berlin--Passage Through the Country Granted for
Armies of the Allies--Ferdinand Abdicates--Germany's Imagined
Mittel-Europa Dream Forever Destroyed

CHAPTER XLVII. THE CENTRAL EMPIRES WHINE FOR PEACE
Austria-Hungary Makes the First Plea--President Wilson's Abrupt
Answer--Prince Max, Camouflaged as an Apostle of Peace, made
Chancellor and Opens Germany's Pathetic Plea for a Peace by
Negotiation--The President Replies on Behalf of all the Allied
Powers--Foch Pushes on Regardless of Peace Notes

CHAPTER XLVIII. BATTLES IN THE AIR
Conquering the Fear of Death--From Individual Fights to Battles
Between Squadrons--Heroes of the Warring Nations--America's Wonderful
Record--From Nowhere to First Place in Eighteen Months--The Liberty
Motor

CHAPTER XLIX. HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF THE AMERICAN FORCES
Record of the Red Cross on all Fronts--A Gigantic Work Well
Executed--Y. M. C. A.--Y. W. C. A.--Knights of Columbus--Jewish
Welfare Association--Salvation Army--American Library
Association--Other Organizations--Surgery and Sanitation

CHAPTER L. THE PIRATES OF THE UNDER-SEAS
Germany's Ruthless Submarine Policy--A Boomerang Destroying the Hand
that Cast It--Terrorism that Failed--One Hundred and Fifty U-Boats
Sunk or Captured--Shameless Surrender of the German Submarines and of
the Fleet They Protected

CHAPTER LI. APPROACHING THE FINAL STAGE
Cutting the Railroads to Cambrai--Americans Co-operate with British in
Furious Attack--Douai and St. Quentin Taken--The Battle Line
Straightened for the Last Mighty Assault--All Hope Abandoned by the
Kaiser

CHAPTER LII. LAST DAYS OF THE WAR
American Troops Join with the Allies in Colossal Drive on 71-mile
Front--Historic Sedan Taken by the Yanks--Stenay, the Last Battle of
the War--How the Opposing Forces Greeted the News of the Armistice

CHAPTER LIII. THE DRASTIC TERMS OF SURRENDER
Handcuffs for Four Nations--Bulgaria First to Fly the White Flag--
Allenby's Great Victory Forces Turkey Out--Austria Signs Quickly--
Germany's Capitulation Complete and Humiliating

CHAPTER LIV. PEACE AT LAST
An Unfounded Rumor Starts Enormous Jubilation--Armistice Signed Four
Days Later--Kaiser Abdicates and Flees to Holland--Cowardly Ruler
Seeks Protection of Small Neutral Nation--Looking Into the
Future--Cost of War to the Nations--Liberty Loans--Reconstruction
Problems--McAdoo Resigns--American Ideals in the Old World

CHAPTER LV. AMERICA'S POSITION IN PEACE AND WAR
President Wilson's Stirring Speech in Congress Which Brought the
United States into the War--His Great Speech Before Congress Ending
the War--The Fourteen Points Outlining America's Demands Before Peace
Could be Concluded--Later Peace Principles Enunciated by the President

CHAPTER LVI. THE WAR BY YEARS
Condensed Word-Picture of the Happenings of the Most Momentous
Fifty-two Months in All History--Leading Up to the Eleventh Hour of
the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month of 1918

CHAPTER LVII. BEHIND AMERICA'S BATTLE LINE
General March's Story of the Work of the Military Intelligence
Division--Of the War Plans Division--Of the Purchase and Traffic
Divisions--How Men, Munitions and Supplies Reached the Western Front

CHAPTER LVIII. GENERAL PERSHING'S OWN STORY
The Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces Tells the
Story of the Magnificent Combat Operations of his Troops that Defeated
Prussia's Legions--Official Account Discloses Full Details of the
Fighting.

CHAPTER LIX. PRESIDENT WILSON'S REVIEW OF THE WAR
A Year in the Life of the United States Crowded with Great
Events--Tribute to the Soldiers and Sailors, the Workers at Home Who
Supplied the Sinews of the Great Undertaking, the Women of the Land
Who Contributed to the Great Result--The Future Safe in the Hands of
American Businessmen

SUMMARIZED CHRONOLOGY OF THE WAR