Ferdinand of Bulgaria Insists Upon Joining Germany--Dramatic Scene in the King’s Palace--The Die is Cast--Bulgaria Succumbs to Seductions of Potsdam Gang--Greece Mobilizes--French and British Troops at Saloniki--Serbia Over-run--Roumania’s Disastrous Venture in the Arena of Mars 145 CHAPTER VII. THE CAMPAIGN IN MESOPOTAMIA British Army Threatening Bagdad Besieged in Kut-el-Amara--After Heroic Defense General Townshend Surrenders after 143 Days of Siege--New British Expedition Recaptures Kut--Troops Push on Up the Tigris--Fall of Bagdad the Magnificent 187 CHAPTER VIII. IMMORTAL VERDUN Grave of the Military Reputations of von Falkenhayn and the Crown Prince--Hindenburg’s Warning--Why the Germans Made the Disastrous Attempt to Capture the Great Fortress--Heroic France Reveals Itself to the World--“They Shall Not Pass”--Nivelle’s Glorious Stand on Dead Man Hill--Lord Northcliffe’s Description--A Defense Unsurpassed in the History of France 209 ILLUSTRATIONS VOLUME III PAGE THE THRILL OF OLD-TIME WAR _Frontispiece_ THE GLORIOUS CHARGE OF THE NINTH LANCERS 4 CHARGING THROUGH BARBED-WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS 6 BRITISH INDIAN TROOPS CHARGING THE GERMAN TRENCHES AT NEUVE CHAPELLE 10 CHARGING ON GERMAN TRENCHES IN GAS MASKS 12 AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR IN FLANDERS 18 ITALY’S TITANIC LABOR TO CONQUER THE ALPS 30 WAITING THE ORDER TO ATTACK 38 TRANSPORTING WOUNDED AMID THE DIFFICULTIES OF THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN FRONT 42 THE LOSS OF THE “IRRESISTIBLE” 68 THE HISTORIC LANDING FROM THE “RIVER CLYDE” AT SEDDUL BAHR 76 ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS 98 ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY 98 GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS FROM THE AIR 110 BAGDAD THE MAGNIFICENT FALLS TO THE BRITISH 208 AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS 224 HOW VERDUN WAS SAVED 224 THE WORLD WAR CHAPTER I NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES