Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War / Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania

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INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I THE SUPREME CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION: THE TRAGIC DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA

CHAPTER II THE HEROES OF THE LUSITANIA AND THEIR HEROISM

CHAPTER III SOUL-STIRRING STORIES OF SURVIVORS OF THE LUSITANIA

CHAPTER IV A CANADIAN'S ACCOUNT OF THE LUSITANIA HORROR

CHAPTER V THE PLOT AGAINST THE RESCUE SHIPS

CHAPTER VI BRITISH JURY FINDS KAISER A MURDERER

CHAPTER VII THE WORLD-WIDE INDICTMENT OF GERMANY FOR THE LUSITANIA ATROCITY

CHAPTER VIII AMERICA'S PROTEST AGAINST UNCIVILIZED WARFARE

CHAPTER IX THE GERMAN DEFENSE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE LUSITANIA

CHAPTER X SWIFT REVERSAL TO BARBARISM By Vance Thompson

CHAPTER XI BELGIUM'S BITTER NEED By Sir Gilbert Parker

CHAPTER XII JAMES BRYCE'S REPORT ON SYSTEMATIC MASSACRE IN BELGIUM

CHAPTER XIII A BELGIAN BOY'S STORY OF THE RUIN OF AERSCHOT

CHAPTER XIV THE UNSPEAKABLE ATROCITIES OF "CIVILIZED" WARFARE

CHAPTER XV DESTROYING THE PRICELESS MONUMENTS OF CIVILIZATION

CHAPTER XVI WANTON DESTRUCTION OF THE BEAUTIFUL CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS

CHAPTER XVII THE CANADIANS' GLORIOUS FEAT AT LANGEMARCK

CHAPTER XVIII PITIFUL FLIGHT OF A MILLION WOMEN By Philip Gibbs Of the London Daily Chronicle

CHAPTER XIX FACING DEATH IN THE TRENCHES

CHAPTER XX A VIVID PICTURE OF WAR

CHAPTER XXI HARROWING SCENES ALONG THE BATTLE LINES

CHAPTER XXII WHAT THE MEN IN THE TRENCHES WRITE HOME

CHAPTER XXIII BOMBARDING UNDEFENDED CITIES

CHAPTER XXIV GERMANY'S FATAL WAR ZONE

CHAPTER XXV MULTITUDINOUS TRAGEDIES AT SEA

CHAPTER XXVI HOW "NEUTRAL" WATERS ARE VIOLATED

CHAPTER XXVII THE TERRIBLE DISTRESS OF POLAND

CHAPTER XXVIII THE GHASTLY HAVOC WROUGHT BY THE AIR-DEMONS

CHAPTER XXIX THE DEADLY SUBMARINE AND ITS STEALTHY DESTRUCTION

CHAPTER XXX THE TERRIBLE WORK OF ARTILLERY IN WAR

CHAPTER XXXI WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER BY POISONOUS GASES

CHAPTER XXXII "USAGES OF WAR ON LAND": THE OFFICIAL GERMAN MANUAL

CHAPTER XXXIII THE SACRIFICE OF THE HORSE IN WARFARE

CHAPTER XXXIV SCOURGES THAT FOLLOW IN THE WAKE OF BATTLE

CHAPTER XXXV WAR'S REPAIR SHOP: CARING FOR THE WOUNDED

CHAPTER XXXVI WHAT WILL THE HORRORS AND ATROCITIES OF THE GREAT WAR LEAD TO?

Transcriber's Notes

Please see the Transcriber’s Notes at the end of this text.


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Merciless Monster of the Deep.

The murderous German submarine sighting its prey. Sinking under water it launched the fatal torpedo and its helpless victim, crowded with innocent men, women and children, was doomed.


HORRORS AND ATROCITIES
OF THE GREAT WAR

Including the Tragic Destruction of the Lusitania

A NEW KIND OF WARFARE
——COMPRISING——

The Desolation of Belgium, the Sacking of Louvain, the Shelling of Defenseless Cities, the Wanton Destruction of Cathedrals and Works of Art, the Horrors of Bomb Dropping

——VIVIDLY PORTRAYING——

The Grim Awfulness of this Greatest of All Wars Fought on Land and Sea, in the Air and Under the Waves, Leaving in Its Wake a Dreadful Trail of Famine and Pestilence


By LOGAN MARSHALL
Author of “The Sinking of the Titanic,” “Myths and
Legends of All Nations,” etc.

With Special Chapters by

SIR GILBERT PARKER
Author of “The Right of Way”

VANCE THOMPSON
Author of “Spinners of Life”

 

 

PHILIP GIBBS
Author of “The Street of Adventure,” Special
Correspondent on The London Daily Chronicle.


Illustrated



Copyright 1915
By L. T. MYERS


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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