I. A Glance Backwards 1 II. Some German Theories of War 17 III. From Arras to Armentières 27 IV. From Lille to Nieuport 33 V. Maud'huy at Arras and the Retreat from Antwerp 43 VI. With Rawlinson in Belgium 49 VII. The Long, Thin Line of Steel and Valour 54 VIII. The Work of the Third British Corps 65 IX. Stirring Stories of Anxious Days 70 X. With the Second Corps 78 XI. The Indians in the Trenches 81 XII. Fire and Flood 87 XIII. Eight Days of Struggle and Anxiety 97 XIV. Tales of Heroes 113 XV. The Crisis of the First Battle of Ypres 129 XVI. The Price of Victory and the Passing of a Hero 145 XVII. Tales from the Trenches 154 XVIII. More Tales from the Trenches 161 XIX. Germany's Colonial Empire 171 XX. Germany's Vanishing Colonies 177 XXI. The Story of the "Emden" 187 XXII. The Last of the "Emden," and the Sea Fight off Coronel 193 XXIII. The Fall of Kiao-chau 209 XXIV. The First Attack on Warsaw 218 XXV. Von Hindenburg foiled 225 XXVI. Stories from the Battlefields 231 XXVII. The Second Russian Advance on Cracow 241 XXVIII. The Second Assault on Warsaw 252 XXIX. Warsaw again saved 257 XXX. At War with Turkey 264 XXXI. Fighting in Chaldea 273 XXXII. The Campaign in the Caucasus 278 XXXIII. The Battle of the Serbian Ridges 284 XXXIV. The Battle off the Falkland Islands 289 XXXV. Naval Raids on the East Coast of England 297 XXXVI. Winter in the Trenches 305 [Illustration: THE CHILDREN'S STORY OF THE WAR VOLUME III.] CHAPTER I. A GLANCE BACKWARDS. When the last British soldier, with the mud of the Aisne trenches still clinging to his tunic, detrained in Artois,[1] within fifty miles of the white cliffs of Dover, seventy-seven days of anxious and fateful struggle had come to an end. Before we follow the progress of the terrible campaign which was soon to begin, let us glance backwards and recall in brief outline the leading incidents of the crowded weeks which had elapsed since Germany unsheathed the sword and flung her legions into that "battle without a morrow" which she vainly hoped would win for her the mastery of Europe and the supremacy of the world.