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World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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

Year of Publication: 1918Genres: War & Military Fiction , Modern (20th C)

Running Time: 15 hours 44 minutes 19 seconds

#	Chapter Name
	The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece Sonia	2:56
	The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note Sonia	2:33
	The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton Ezwa	13:09
	Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure Ezwa	8:13
	Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren Ezwa	7:34
	The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot Devorah Allen	13:36
	Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson Wayne Cooke	6:10
	The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note Wayne Cooke	3:11
	The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall April6090	13:07
	The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay KuyaCarrot	9:03
	En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall April6090	16:29
	The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke atelo	6:14
	The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note Devorah Allen	2:47
	The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer Colleen McMahon	12:35
	A gas attack, photograph p. 62 Tomas Peter	2:26
	The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton Colleen McMahon	21:51
	The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green Colleen McMahon	18:02
	A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke Colleen McMahon	12:17
	The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay Colleen McMahon	14:53
	Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 Availle	2:27
	The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae Jim Locke	21:03
	The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note BettyB	2:42
	The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard janop	24:14
	The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 Alan Mapstone	3:02
	Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun Tomas Peter	7:28
	The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay Jim Locke	20:07
	A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 April6090	1:47
	The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) akatsu	7:38
	Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 Alan Mapstone	2:31
	The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs EmilioC	23:45
	The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman Jim Locke	16:42
	The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note Tomas Peter	2:34
	Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler Availle	15:17
	The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares Piotr Nater	7:02
	The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton Alan Mapstone	11:01
	Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 Alan Mapstone	1:13
	A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave Brittany Bogle	9:25
	Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner Brittany Bogle	8:36
	From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross Jim Locke	13:56
	The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note Devorah Allen	2:51
	The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones Brittany Bogle	12:30
	Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell KuyaCarrot	12:56
	General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell Jim Locke	12:41
	With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark Jim Locke	16:06
	The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey BettyB	11:47
	''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 Alan Mapstone	2:43
	The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note Piotr Nater	2:15
	The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall April6090	12:46
	The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay Brittany Bogle	9:32
	A description of trench life, by René Nicolas Tomas Peter	7:33
	The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan Piotr Nater	5:58
	The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note Tim811	2:45
	The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson Jim Locke	30:51
	German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 Jim Locke	2:46
	The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe Jim Locke	15:43
	The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton Jim Locke	15:11
	British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 Alan Mapstone	3:12
	The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note BettyB	2:48
	The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble Colleen McMahon	12:00
	The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon Jim Locke	13:35
	The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon KevinS	21:51
	The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman Alan Dove	12:06
	The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note ToddHW	2:34
	The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat Availle	10:26
	Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner Piotr Nater	18:15
	The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon Availle	12:12
	The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note Alan Mapstone	2:52
	Flying in the war-zone, by Theta Availle	12:50
	A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 Alan Mapstone	2:40
	A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman Wayne Cooke	18:10
	A great air battle, by a British war correspondent Alan Mapstone	8:41
	The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note ToddHW	2:04
	Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer Jim Locke	27:04
	The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A. ToddHW	4:29
	American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 ToddHW	2:22
	With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell Devorah Allen	13:15
	With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson EmilioC	12:48
	Wonders of war surgery (1917) April6090	15:15
	The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note Tomas Peter	2:18
	The American Red Cross Heather Eney	4:21
	Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer Jim Locke	8:15
	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. Jim Locke	20:34
	A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 Tomas Peter	2:07
	The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note Jim Locke	2:36
	Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton Jim Locke	23:54
	Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 Sonia	2:11
	The cost of the war Jim Locke	14:20
	The human cost Jim Locke	14:39
	The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note ToddHW	2:21
	The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson ToddHW	20:19
	With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo Jim Locke	16:07
	The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson ToddHW	12:18