World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Audiolibro Gratis

World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Audiolibro Gratis

Autor(es): Horatio W. Dresser,

Idioma: English

1 / 92The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece

00:00
00:00
92 Capítulo(s)
  • 1. The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece
  • 2. The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note
  • 3. The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton
  • 4. Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure
  • 5. Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren
  • 6. The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot
  • 7. Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
  • 8. The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note
  • 9. The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall
  • 10. The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay
  • 11. En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
  • 12. The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke
  • 13. The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note
  • 14. The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer
  • 15. A gas attack, photograph p. 62
  • 16. The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton
  • 17. The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green
  • 18. A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke
  • 19. The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay
  • 20. Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100
  • 21. The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae
  • 22. The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note
  • 23. The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard
  • 24. The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134
  • 25. Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun
  • 26. The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay
  • 27. A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148
  • 28. The battle of Messines Ridge (1917)
  • 29. Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162
  • 30. The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs
  • 31. The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman
  • 32. The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note
  • 33. Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler
  • 34. The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares
  • 35. The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton
  • 36. Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204
  • 37. A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave
  • 38. Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner
  • 39. From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross
  • 40. The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note
  • 41. The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones
  • 42. Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell
  • 43. General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell
  • 44. With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark
  • 45. The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey
  • 46. ''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266
  • 47. The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note
  • 48. The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall
  • 49. The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay
  • 50. A description of trench life, by René Nicolas
  • 51. The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan
  • 52. The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note
  • 53. The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson
  • 54. German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312
  • 55. The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe
  • 56. The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton
  • 57. British tanks in action, photograph p. 332
  • 58. The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note
  • 59. The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble
  • 60. The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon
  • 61. The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon
  • 62. The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman
  • 63. The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note
  • 64. The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat
  • 65. Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner
  • 66. The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon
  • 67. The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note
  • 68. Flying in the war-zone, by Theta
  • 69. A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402
  • 70. A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman
  • 71. A great air battle, by a British war correspondent
  • 72. The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note
  • 73. Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer
  • 74. The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A.
  • 75. American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440
  • 76. With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell
  • 77. With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson
  • 78. Wonders of war surgery (1917)
  • 79. The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note
  • 80. The American Red Cross
  • 81. Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer
  • 82. 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.
  • 83. A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476
  • 84. The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note
  • 85. Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton
  • 86. Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488
  • 87. The cost of the war
  • 88. The human cost
  • 89. The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note
  • 90. The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson
  • 91. With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo
  • 92. The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson

Acerca de

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

Comentarios

Etiquetas: World’s Story Volume XV: The World War audio, World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Horatio W. Dresser audio, Historia audio, Moderno (Siglo XX) audio, No ficción audio, Ficción bélica y militar audio, free audiobook, free audio book, audioaz