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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


[Illustration: _Major General John J. Pershing, appointed to organize
and command the American forces in France, is shown landing in France
on June 12, 1917. French officers and officials of high rank are there
to welcome him. His arrival is recognized as an epoch-making date in
the war, for it foreshadows the creation of a great American Army in
France._]


THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR

  SOMME. RUSSIAN DRIVE
  FALL OF GORITZ. RUMANIA
  GERMAN RETREAT. VIMY
  REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
  UNITED STATES AT WAR


VOLUME VI

P. F. Collier & Son. New York

  Copyright 1916
  By P. F. Collier & Son




CONTENTS


PART I.--WESTERN FRONT--SOMME AND VERDUN

CHAPTER                                                             Page

        I. French and British Advances                                 9

       II. Further Successes--French Capture Maurepas                 13

      III. German Counterattacks                                      16

       IV. Operations at Verdun--British Victories in the Somme       19

        V. The "Tanks"--British Capture Martinpuich                   21

       VI. Capture of Combles--Air Raids                              25

      VII. British Capture Eaucourt L'Abbaye-Regina Trench            28

     VIII. Continued Allied Advance                                   31

       IX. French Retake Douaumont                                    34

        X. Germans Lose Fort Vaux--French Take Saillisel              37

       XI. British Successes in the Ancre                             41

      XII. Operations on the French Front--Further Fighting in
             the Ancre                                                47

     XIII. Weather Conditions--Movements Around Loos                  51

      XIV. French Win at Verdun                                       53

       XV. Canadians at Arras--Nivelle in Command                     55

      XVI. German Attacks at Verdun--Result of Six Months' Fighting   58

     XVII. German Attack on Hill 304--British Surprise Attack         61


PART II.--EASTERN FRONT

    XVIII. The New Drive Against Lemberg                              70

      XIX. The Battle on the Stokhod River                            76

       XX. Renewed Drive Against Lemberg                              81

      XXI. The Fighting from Riga to Lutsk                            86

     XXII. Fighting in the Carpathians                                90

    XXIII. Winter at the Eastern Front                                93


PART III.--THE BALKANS

     XXIV. Rumania's Military Strength                                95

      XXV. Hostilities Begin                                          96

     XXVI. Bulgaria Attacks                                           98

    XXVII. The Germans Arrive                                        103

   XXVIII. The Rumanian Raid Across the Danube                       106

     XXIX. Mackensen Pressed Back                                    111

      XXX. The Rumanians Pressed Back                                113

     XXXI. The Battle of the River Argechu                           117

    XXXII. Bucharest Falls                                           119

   XXXIII. Sarrail's Offensive