Chapter I: Front Matter

The stirrup charge of the Scots Greys at St. Quentin. Holding on to
the stirrup leathers of the cavalry the Highlanders crashed like an
avalanche upon the German lines, tearing great gaps in their massed
formations.]

COMPLETE EDITION

HISTORY OF THE
WORLD WAR

An Authentic Narrative of
The World’s Greatest War

BY FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D.
In Collaboration with
RICHARD J. BEAMISH
Special War Correspondent
and Military Analyst

With an Introduction
BY GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH
Chief of Staff of the United States Army

With Exclusive Photographs by
JAMES H. HARE and DONALD THOMPSON
World-Famed War Photographers
and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs
of the United States, Canadian, British,
French and Italian Governments

MCMXIX
LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY
NEW YORK

Copyright, 1918

FRANCIS A. MARCH

This history is an original work and is fully protected by the
copyright laws, including the right of translation. All persons are
warned against reproducing the text in whole or in part without the
permission of the publishers.

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
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

Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon Joining Germany--Dramatic
Scene in the King’s Palace--The Die is Cast--Bulgaria
Succumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang--Greece
Mobilizes--French and British Troops at Saloniki--Serbia
Over-run--Roumania’s Disastrous Venture in the Arena of Mars 145

CHAPTER VII. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA

British Army Threatening Bagdad Besieged in Kut-el-Amara--After
Heroic Defense General Townshend Surrenders
after 143 Days of Siege--New British Expedition
Recaptures Kut--Troops Push on Up the Tigris--Fall of
Bagdad the Magnificent 187