The World’s Story

The World War

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English · 1918 · 15h 44m · War & Military Fiction, Modern (20th C)

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This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia

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The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece 2:56 Leído por Sonia
The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note 2:33 Leído por Sonia
The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton 13:09 Leído por Ezwa
Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure 8:13 Leído por Ezwa
Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren 7:34 Leído por Ezwa
The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot 13:36 Leído por Devorah Allen
Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 6:10 Leído por Wayne Cooke
The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note 3:11 Leído por Wayne Cooke
The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall 13:07 Leído por April6090
The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay 9:03 Leído por KuyaCarrot
En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 16:29 Leído por April6090
The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke 6:14 Leído por atelo
The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note 2:47 Leído por Devorah Allen
The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer 12:35 Leído por Colleen McMahon
A gas attack, photograph p. 62 2:26 Leído por Tomas Peter
The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton 21:51 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green 18:02 Leído por Colleen McMahon
A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke 12:17 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay 14:53 Leído por Colleen McMahon
Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 2:27 Leído por Availle
The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae 21:03 Leído por Jim Locke
The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note 2:42 Leído por BettyB
The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard 24:14 Leído por janop
The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 3:02 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun 7:28 Leído por Tomas Peter
The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay 20:07 Leído por Jim Locke
A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 1:47 Leído por April6090
The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) 7:38 Leído por akatsu
Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 2:31 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs 23:45 Leído por EmilioC
The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman 16:42 Leído por Jim Locke
The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note 2:34 Leído por Tomas Peter
Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler 15:17 Leído por Availle
The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares 7:02 Leído por Piotr Nater
The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton 11:01 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 1:13 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave 9:25 Leído por Brittany Bogle
Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner 8:36 Leído por Brittany Bogle
From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross 13:56 Leído por Jim Locke
The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note 2:51 Leído por Devorah Allen
The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones 12:30 Leído por Brittany Bogle
Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell 12:56 Leído por KuyaCarrot
General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell 12:41 Leído por Jim Locke
With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark 16:06 Leído por Jim Locke
The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey 11:47 Leído por BettyB
''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 2:43 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note 2:15 Leído por Piotr Nater
The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall 12:46 Leído por April6090
The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay 9:32 Leído por Brittany Bogle
A description of trench life, by René Nicolas 7:33 Leído por Tomas Peter
The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan 5:58 Leído por Piotr Nater
The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note 2:45 Leído por Tim811
The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson 30:51 Leído por Jim Locke
German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 2:46 Leído por Jim Locke
The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe 15:43 Leído por Jim Locke
The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton 15:11 Leído por Jim Locke
British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 3:12 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note 2:48 Leído por BettyB
The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble 12:00 Leído por Colleen McMahon
The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon 13:35 Leído por Jim Locke
The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon 21:51 Leído por KevinS
The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman 12:06 Leído por Alan Dove
The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note 2:34 Leído por ToddHW
The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat 10:26 Leído por Availle
Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner 18:15 Leído por Piotr Nater
The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon 12:12 Leído por Availle
The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note 2:52 Leído por Alan Mapstone
Flying in the war-zone, by Theta 12:50 Leído por Availle
A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 2:40 Leído por Alan Mapstone
A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman 18:10 Leído por Wayne Cooke
A great air battle, by a British war correspondent 8:41 Leído por Alan Mapstone
The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note 2:04 Leído por ToddHW
Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer 27:04 Leído por Jim Locke
The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A. 4:29 Leído por ToddHW
American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 2:22 Leído por ToddHW
With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell 13:15 Leído por Devorah Allen
With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson 12:48 Leído por EmilioC
Wonders of war surgery (1917) 15:15 Leído por April6090
The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note 2:18 Leído por Tomas Peter
The American Red Cross 4:21 Leído por Heather Eney
Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer 8:15 Leído por Jim Locke
The Y.M.C.A. at the Front, by Francis B. Sayre, with an introduction by John R. Mott, General Secretary of the National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A. 20:34 Leído por Jim Locke
A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 2:07 Leído por Tomas Peter
The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note 2:36 Leído por Jim Locke
Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton 23:54 Leído por Jim Locke
Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 2:11 Leído por Sonia
The cost of the war 14:20 Leído por Jim Locke
The human cost 14:39 Leído por Jim Locke
The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note 2:21 Leído por ToddHW
The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson 20:19 Leído por ToddHW
With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo 16:07 Leído por Jim Locke
The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson 12:18 Leído por ToddHW