Chapter I: Front Matter

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By Sir Edward Parrott, M.A., LL.D.]

THE CHILDREN'S STORY OF THE WAR BY SIR EDWARD PARROTT, M.A., LL.D.

Author of "Britain Overseas", "The Pageant of English Literature", etc.

VOLUME IV.

The Story of the Year 1915

TORONTO THOMAS NELSON AND SONS, Ltd. London, Edinburgh, and New York 1916

"_How sleep the brave, who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes blest!
When Spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod._

"_By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung:
There Honour comes, a pilgrim grey,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell, a weeping hermit, there!_"

WILLIAM COLLINS

CONTENTS.

I. Setting the House in Order 1
II. The Loss of the "Formidable" 17
III. The Battle of the Dogger Bank 23
IV. The Turkish Descent upon Egypt 33
V. Winter Warfare on the Western Front.--I. 44
VI. Winter Warfare on the Western Front.--II. 49
VII. Stories from the Battlefield 58
VIII. The German Success at Soissons 62
IX. Winter Fighting in Champagne, the Argonne,
and the Vosges 65
X. The Submarine Blockade begins 77
XI. The Sinking of the "Lusitania" 81
XII. Stories of Submarines 90
XIII. More Stories of Submarine Warfare 97
XIV. Winter Fighting in Poland and East Prussia 105
XV. A Battle of the Middle Ages 113
XVI. The Fall of Przemysl 117
XVII. Stories from Eastern Battlefields 126
XVIII. The Battle of Neuve Chapelle 129
XIX. Soldiers' Stories of Neuve Chapelle 145
XX. The Dardanelles 157
XXI. Ships _versus_ Forts 161
XXII. How we failed at the Narrows 170
XXIII. The Story of Hill 60 177
XXIV. The Poisonous Cloud 188
XXV. The Battle Glory of Canada 193
XXVI. Days of Struggle and Anxiety.--I. 205
XXVII. Days of Struggle and Anxiety.--II. 209
XXVIII. Heroes of the Ypres Salient 217
XXIX. The Battle of the Artois.--I. 222
XXX. The Battle of the Artois.--II. 225
XXXI. The Battle of Festubert 229
XXXII. The Heroisms of Festubert 237
XXXIII. The Gallipoli Peninsula 241
XXXIV. The Battle of the Landing 245
XXXV. Heroes of the Landing 257
XXXVI. Battering at the Barriers 266
XXXVII. A Splendid Failure 273
XXXVIII. The Storm bursts 289
XXXIX. Stories of the Great Retreat 305
XL. From Storm to Calm 310
XLI. Midsummer on the Western Front 321
XLII. In Champagne 337
XLIII. The Battle of Loos.--I. 347
XLIV. The Battle of Loos.--II. 353
XLV. Bravest of the Brave.--I. 364
XLVI. Bravest of the Brave.--II. 369
XLVII. The War in the Air 377
XLVIII. Heroes of the Air 382
XLIX. The Coming of the Zeppelins 385
L. The Overrunning of Serbia 391

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