The World’s Story

The World War

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English · 1918 · 15h 44m · War & Military Fiction, Modern (20th C)

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