World’s Story Volume XV: The World War - Sách nói Miễn phí

Tác giả: Horatio W. Dresser

Ngôn ngữ: English

Thể loại: Lịch sử Hiện đại (Thế kỷ 20)Phi hư cấu Tiểu thuyết chiến tranh & quân sự

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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

Giới thiệu

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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