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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                                       124

    XXXIV. Unrest in Greece                                          126

     XXXV. A Greek Army Surrenders to Germany                        129

    XXXVI. The Serbians Advance                                      132

   XXXVII. The Greeks on the Firing Line                             134

  XXXVIII. Seizure of the Greek Fleet                                136

    XXXIX. The Bulgarians Driven Back                                138

       XL. Monastir Falls                                            140

      XLI. Greek Fights Greek                                        143

     XLII. Fighting in the Streets of Athens                         145

    XLIII. The Serbians Checked                                      148


PART IV.--AUSTRO-ITALIAN FRONT

     XLIV. The Fall of Goritz                                        149

      XLV. Fall and Winter on the Austro-Italian Front               153

     XLVI. Fighting on Mountain Peaks                                159


PART V.--WAR IN THE AIR AND ON THE SEA

    XLVII. Aeroplane Warfare                                         168

   XLVIII. Zeppelin Raids                                            176

     XLIX. Submarine Warfare                                         182


PART VI.--THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS

        L. The Old Menace                                            189

       LI. The U-53's Exploits                                       194

      LII. Gathering Clouds                                          200

     LIII. Rupture With Germany                                      205

      LIV. Nothing Settled                                           212


PART VII.--WESTERN FRONT

       LV. The German Retreat on the Ancre                           217

      LVI. The German Retreat Continues--French Recover 120 Towns    227

     LVII. The British Troops Capture Vimy Ridge and Monchy--French
             Victories on the Aisne                                  239

    LVIII. French Victories in Champagne--The British Capture
             Bullecourt                                              252

      LIX. The Battle of Messines Ridge--British Smash the
             German Salient South of Ypres                           263

       LX. The Germans Defeat British on Belgian Coast--Intense