[Illustration: THE THRILL OF OLD-TIME WAR The stirrup charge of the Scots Greys at St. Quentin. Holding on to the stirrup leathers of the cavalry the Highlanders crashed like an avalanche upon the German lines, tearing great gaps in their massed formations.] 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. CONTENTS VOLUME III PAGE CHAPTER I. NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation of No Man’s Land--Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over Four Years--Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for Every Foot of Gain 1 CHAPTER II. ITALY DECLARES WAR ON AUSTRIA Her Great Decision--D’Annunzio, Poet and Patriot--Italia Irredenta--German Indignation--The Campaigns on the Isonzo and in the Tyrol 29 CHAPTER III. GLORIOUS GALLIPOLI A Titanic Enterprise--Its Objects--Disasters and Deeds of Deathless Glory--The Heroic Anzacs--Bloody Dashes up Impregnable Slopes--Silently they Stole Away--A Successful Failure 58 CHAPTER IV. THE GREATEST NAVAL BATTLE IN HISTORY The Battle of Jutland--Every Factor on Sea and in Sky Favorable to the Germans--Low Visibility a Great Factor--A Modern Sea Battle--Light Cruisers Screening Battleship Squadron--Germans Run Away when British Fleet Marshals Its Full Strength--Death of Lord Kitchener 78 CHAPTER V. THE RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN The Advance on Cracow--Von Hindenburg Strikes at Warsaw--German Barbarism--The War in Galicia--The Fall of Przemysl--Russia’s Ammunition Fails--The Russian Retreat--The Fall of Warsaw--The Last Stand--Czernowitz 104 CHAPTER VI. HOW THE BALKANS DECIDED