[Illustration: THE VICTORIOUS GENERALS General Foch, Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American armies. Field Marshal Haig, head of the British armies. General d’Esperey (French) to whom Bulgaria surrendered. General Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian armies. General Marshall (British), head of the Mesopotamian expedition. General Allenby (British), who redeemed Palestine from the Turks.] COMPLETE EDITION HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR An Authentic Narrative of The World’s Greatest War BY FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D. In Collaboration with RICHARD J. BEAMISH Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst With an Introduction BY GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH Chief of Staff of the United States Army With Exclusive Photographs by JAMES H. HARE and DONALD THOMPSON World-Famed War Photographers and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the United States, Canadian, British, French and Italian Governments MCMXIX LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright, 1918 FRANCIS A. MARCH This history is an original work and is fully protected by the copyright laws, including the right of translation. All persons are warned against reproducing the text in whole or in part without the permission of the publishers. WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF, WASHINGTON. November 14, 1918. With the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, the World War has been practically brought to an end. The events of the past four years have been of such magnitude that the various steps, the numberless battles, and the growth of Allied power which led up to the final victory are not clearly defined even in the minds of many military men. A history of this great period which will state in an orderly fashion this series of events will be of the greatest value to the future students of the war, and to everyone of the present day who desires to refer in exact terms to matters which led up to the final conclusion. The war will be discussed and re-discussed from every angle and the sooner such a compilation of facts is available, the more valuable it will be. I understand that this History of the World War intends to put at the disposal of all who are interested, such a compendium of facts of the past period of over four years; and that the system employed in safeguarding the accuracy of statements contained in it will produce a document of great historical value without entering upon any speculative conclusions as to cause and effect of the various phases of the war or attempting to project into an historical document individual opinions. With these ends in view, this History will be of the greatest value. P. C. March.