E-text prepared by Merv McConnel, Christine P. Travers, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations and maps. See 28257-h.htm or 28257-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/2/5/28257/28257-h/28257-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/8/2/5/28257/28257-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See http://www.archive.org/details/storyofgreatwarh01reynuoft THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR History of the European War from Official Sources Complete Historical Records of Events to Date, Illustrated with Drawings, Maps, and Photographs Prefaced by What the War Means to America Major General Leonard Wood, U.S.A. Naval Lessons of the War Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U.S.N. The World's War Frederick Palmer Theatres of the War's Campaigns Frank H. Simonds The War Correspondent Arthur Ruhl Edited by Francis J. Reynolds Former Reference Librarian of Congress Allen L. Churchill Associate Editor, The New International Encyclopedia Francis Trevelyan Miller Editor in Chieft, Photographic History of the Civil War P. F. Collier & Son Company New York [Illustration: _King George V of Britain and King Albert of Belgium inspecting Belgian troops. The youth is the Prince of Wales, and beside him is Major General Pertab Singh of the Indian army._] THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR Introductions Special Articles Causes of War Diplomatic and State Papers [Illustration: Editor's logo.] VOLUME I P . F . Collier & Son . New York Copyright 1916 By P. F. Collier & Son CONTENTS Page WHAT THE WAR MEANS TO AMERICA. _By Major General Leonard Wood, U. S. A._ 9 NAVAL LESSONS OF THE WAR. _By Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, U. S. N._ 17 THE WORLDS WAR. _By Frederick Palmer_ 31 THE THEATRES OF THE WAR'S CAMPAIGNS. _By F. H. Simonds_ 83 THE WAR CORRESPONDENT. _By Arthur Ruhl_ 113 PART I.--INDIRECT CAUSES OF THE WAR--POLITICAL AND DIPLOMATIC HISTORY OF EUROPE FROM 1866 TO 1914, WITH A CHAPTER ON THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAPAN CHAPTER I. Germany 126 II. Austria-Hungary 142 III. Russia 148 IV. France 159 V. England 172