PART I.—THE WESTERN FRONT

CHAPTER

• Franco-British Forces Victorious at Ypres—Germans Lose Ground at Lens 9
• French Break the German Lines at Verdun—Canadians Gain at Lens 22
• Lens in Ruins—British Advance Near Ypres 33
• Haig Strikes Again at Ypres—The French Break the German Lines on the Aisne 42
• German Retreat from Chemin-des-Dames—British Advance Toward Cambrai 54
• Germans Gain in the Cambrai Area—Cold Weather Halts Important Operations 66

PART II.—THE UNITED STATES AS A BELLIGERENT

• The New Ally in Council 77
• On the Lorraine Front 83
• Pope and President 97
• America's War Aims 102
• Moving the Military Machine 111
• Fleets in the Making 119
• Food as a War Factor 124
• Transportation and Fuel 128

PART III.—REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA

• The Last Days of Kerensky 134
• The Bolshevist Revolution 142
• The Siege of the Winter Palace 145
• The Bolsheviki and Their Leaders 147
• First Bolsheviki Peace Move 153
• The Peace Parleys Begin 156
• Publication of Secret Treaties 158
• The Peace Negotiations 162
• An Attempted Counter-Revolution 165
• Legislation by Decrees 169

PART IV.—ITALIAN FRONT

• The Capture of Monte Santo 186
• The Struggle on the Isonzo Front 193
• The Austro-German Offensive in Italy 200
• The Italians at Bay on the Piave 208

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

• The Palestine Campaign 214
• The Fall of Jerusalem 223
• Palestine—Arabia—Mesopotamia 232

PART VI.—THE BALKANS

• The Balkans—Greece and Macedonia 245
• Rumania 250

PART VII.—NAVAL AND AIR WARFARE

• On the Sea 253
• The War in the Air 260

PART VIII.—THE WESTERN FRONT

• Preparing for the Great Offensive—The Attack of March 21—First Phase of the Battle 269
• The Second Phase of the Great Offensive 284
• The German Offensive Renewed—Ypres Threatened—The Allies' Heavy Losses 298
• Dark Days for the Allies—The German Offensive Declines—French Gain in the Rheims Region—British Victory at Hamel 310
• The New German Drive Around Rheims—The New Battle of the Marne—The Allies Launch a New Offensive Movement 325

PART IX.—THE UNITED STATES AS A BELLIGERENT

• Force to the Utmost 389
• The American Legions 343
• Raiding the Foe 347
• America Over the Top 351
• At Seicheprey and Xivray 359
• On the Chemin-des-Dames 364
• Before Amiens 367
• Cantigny 373
• Around ChÂteau-Thierry 376
• A Drive by the Marines 381
• Belleau Wood 387
• Their Presence Felt 393
• Vaux and Hamel 396
• Across the Marne and Back 400
• Forward with Foch 406
• Fighting Through Forests 409
• Sergy and Seringes 413

PART X.—RUSSIA

• The Peace Without Treaty 417
• The Germans Renew Hostilities with Russia 422
• The Peace Treaty That Was Signed 426
• Continued German Aggression 429
• Japanese Take Action in the East 432
• German Policy of Aggression 437
• Germany's Appeal to Class Hatred 439
• Assassination of the German Ambassador 442
• The March of the Czecho-Slovaks Through Siberia 444
• Execution of ex-Czar Nicholas 447

PART XL—AUSTRO-ITALIAN CAMPAIGN

• Italy Revives 450

PART XII.—THE WAR ON THE SEA

• Naval Warfare 460

PART XIII.—THE WAR IN THE AIR

• Bombing and Reconnoissance 475

• Pronouncing Vocabulary 489
• Index 501