Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR

History of the European War from Official Sources

Complete Historical Records of Events to Date,
Illustrated with Drawings, Maps, and Photographs

Prefaced by

What the War Means to America
Major General Leonard Wood, U.S.A.

Naval Lessons of the War
Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U.S.N.

The World's War
Frederick Palmer

Theatres of the War's Campaigns
Frank H. Simonds

The War Correspondent
Arthur Ruhl

Edited by

Francis J. Reynolds
Former Reference Librarian of Congress

Allen L. Churchill
Associate Editor, The New International Encyclopedia

Francis Trevelyan Miller
Editor in Chieft, Photographic History of the Civil War

P. F. Collier & Son Company
New York

_Generalissimo of the Armies of the Allies_.]

THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR

AMERICAN FOOD AND SHIPS
PALESTINE · ITALY INVADED
GREAT GERMAN OFFENSIVE
AMERICANS IN PICARDY
AMERICANS ON THE MARNE
FOCH'S COUNTEROFFENSIVE

VOLUME VII

P · F · Collier & Son · New York

Copyright 1919
By P. F. Collier & Son

CONTENTS

PART I.--THE WESTERN FRONT

CHAPTER Page

I. Franco-British Forces Victorious at Ypres--Germans
Lose Ground at Lens 9

II. French Break the German Lines at Verdun--Canadians
Gain at Lens 22

III. Lens in Ruins--British Advance Near Ypres 33

IV. Haig Strikes Again at Ypres--The French Break the
German Lines on the Aisne 42

V. German Retreat from Chemin-des-Dames--British Advance
Toward Cambrai 54

VI. Germans Gain in the Cambrai Area--Cold Weather
Halts Important Operations 66

PART II.--THE UNITED STATES AS A BELLIGERENT

VII. The New Ally in Council 77

VIII. On the Lorraine Front 83

IX. Pope and President 97

X. America's War Aims 102

XI. Moving the Military Machine 111

XII. Fleets in the Making 119

XIII. Food as a War Factor 124

XIV. Transportation and Fuel 128

PART III.--REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

XV. The Last Days of Kerensky 134

XVI. The Bolshevist Revolution 142

XVII. The Siege of the Winter Palace 145

XVIII. The Bolsheviki and Their Leaders 147

XIX. First Bolsheviki Peace Move 153

XX. The Peace Parleys Begin 156

XXI. Publication of Secret Treaties 158

XXII. The Peace Negotiations 162

XXIII. An Attempted Counter-Revolution 165

XXIV. Legislation by Decrees 169

PART IV.--ITALIAN FRONT

XXV. The Capture of Monte Santo 186

XXVI. The Struggle on the Isonzo Front 193

XXVII. The Austro-German Offensive in Italy 200

XXVIII. The Italians at Bay on the Piave 208

PART V.--CAMPAIGNS IN PALESTINE, ARABIA MESOPOTAMIA, AND AFRICA

XXIX. The Palestine Campaign 214

XXX. The Fall of Jerusalem 223

XXXI. Palestine--Arabia--Mesopotamia 232

PART VI.--THE BALKANS

XXXII. The Balkans--Greece and Macedonia 245

XXXIII. Rumania 250

PART VII.--NAVAL AND AIR WARFARE

XXXIV. On the Sea 253

XXXV. The War in the Air 260

PART VIII.--THE WESTERN FRONT

XXXVI. Preparing for the Great Offensive--The Attack of March
21--First Phase of the Battle 269

XXXVII. The Second Phase of the Great Offensive 284

XXXVIII. The German Offensive Renewed--Ypres Threatened--The
Allies' Heavy Losses 298

XXXIX. Dark Days for the Allies--The German Offensive
Declines--French Gain in the Rheims Region--British
Victory at Hamel 310

XL. The New German Drive Around Rheims--The New
Battle of the Marne--The Allies Launch a New
Offensive Movement 325