PART I.—WAR IN SYRIA AND EGYPT

CHAPTER

• Renewed Turkish Attempts 9

PART II.—WAR IN THE AIR

• Raids of the Airmen 16
• Zeppelins Attack London—Battles in the Air 29
• Venice Attacked—Other Raids 34

PART III.—THE WESTERN FRONT

• Summary of First Year's Operations 39
• Fighting in Artois and the Vosges 46
• Political Crisis in France—Aeroplane Warfare—Fierce Combats in the Vosges—Preparations for Allied Offense 52
• The Great Champagne Offensive 61
• The British Front in Artois 81
• The Battle of Loos 90
• The Cavell Case—Accident to King George 98
• Operations in Champagne And Artois—Preparations for Winter Campaign 104
• Events in the Winter Campaign 117
• The Battle of Verdun—The German Attack 131

PART IV.—THE WAR AT SEA

• Naval Situation at the Beginning of the Second Year—Submarine Exploits 143
• The Sinking of the Arabic—British Submarine Successes 150
• Cruise of the Moewe—Loss of British Battleships 156
• Continuation of War on Merchant Shipping—Italian and Russian Naval Movements—Sinking of La Provence 165

PART V.—THE WAR ON THE EASTERN FRONT

• Summary of First Year's Operations 174
• The Fall of the Niemen and Nareff Fortresses 178
• The Conquest of Grodno and Vilna 185
• The Capture of Brest-Litovsk 193
• The Struggle in East Galicia and Volhynia and the Capture of Pinsk 200
• In the Pripet Marshes 209
• Fighting on the Dvina and in the Dvina-Vilna Sector 212
• Winter Battles on the Styr and Strypa Rivers 223
• On the Tracks of the Russian Retreat 229
• Sidelights on the Russian Retreat and German Advance 240
• Winter on the Eastern Front 250

PART VI.—THE BALKANS

• Battle Clouds Gather Again 255
• The Invasion Begins 263
• Bulgaria Enters the War 269
• The Teutonic Invasion Rolls on 273
• The Fall of Nish—Defense of Babuna Pass 282
• Bulgarian Advance—Serbian Resistance 290
• End of German Operations—Flight of Serb People—Greece 300
• Allies Withdraw into Greece—Attitude of Greek Government 308
• Bulgarian Attacks—Allies Concentrate at Saloniki 316
• Italian Movements in Albania—Conquest of Montenegro 327
• Conditions in Serbia, Greece, and Rumania 339

PART VII.—THE DARDANELLES AND RUSSO-TURKISH CAMPAIGN

• Conditions in Gallipoli—Attack at Suvla Bay 344

PART VIII.—AGGRESSIVE TURKISH CAMPAIGN AT DARDANELLES

• Sari Bair—Partial Withdrawal of Allies 353
• Aggressive Turkish Movements—Opinion in England—Change in Command 357
• Abandonment of Dardanelles—Armenian Atrocities 369
• Campaign in Caucasus—Fall of Erzerum 380

PART IX.—ITALY IN THE WAR

• Review OF Preceding Operations—Italian Movements 393
• Italy's Relations to the Other Warring Nations 399
• Problems of Strategy 404
• Move Against Germany 410
• Renewed Attacks—Italy's Situation At the Beginning of March, 1916 413

PART X.—CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA

• Operations Against Bagdad and Around the Tigris 419
• Advance Toward Bagdad—Battle of Kut-el-Amara 426
• Battle of Ctesiphon 437
• Stand at Kut-el-Amara—Attempts at Relief 444

PART XI.—THE WAR IN THE AIR

• Development of the Strategy and Tactics of Air Fighting 454
• Zeppelin Raids—Attacks on German Arms Factories—German Over-Sea Raids 459
• Attacks on London—Bombardment of Italian Ports—Aeroplane as Commerce Destroyer 466
• Air Fighting on all Fronts—Losses 473

PART XII.—THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS

• Sinking of the Arabic—Another Crisis—Germany's Defense and Concessions 480
• Issue with Austria-Hungary Over the Ancona—Surrender to American Demands 490
• The Lusitania Deadlock—Agreement Blocked by Armed Merchantmen Issue—Crisis in Congress 496
• Developments of Pro-German Propaganda—Munitions Crusade Defended—New Aspects of American Policy 505