Produced by Charlene Taylor, Christine P. Travers and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Hyphenation and accentuation have been standardised, all other inconsistencies are as in the original. The author's spelling has been maintained. Page 382: Words are missing in the sentence "The genuine leaders of the Socialists should [...] the labor organizations realized immediately the policy which the dark forces were initiating." The place is marked with [see TN].] 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: _Major General John J. Pershing, appointed to organize and command the American forces in France, is shown landing in France on June 12, 1917. French officers and officials of high rank are there to welcome him. His arrival is recognized as an epoch-making date in the war, for it foreshadows the creation of a great American Army in France._] THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR SOMME . RUSSIAN DRIVE FALL OF GORITZ . RUMANIA GERMAN RETREAT . VIMY REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA UNITED STATES AT WAR VOLUME VI P . F . Collier & Son . New York Copyright 1916 By P. F. Collier & Son CONTENTS PART I.--WESTERN FRONT--SOMME AND VERDUN CHAPTER Page I. French and British Advances 9 II. Further Successes--French Capture Maurepas 13 III. German Counterattacks 16 IV. Operations at Verdun--British Victories in the Somme 19 V. The "Tanks"--British Capture Martinpuich 21 VI. Capture of Combles--Air Raids 25 VII. British Capture Eaucourt L'Abbaye-Regina Trench 28 VIII. Continued Allied Advance 31 IX. French Retake Douaumont 34 X. Germans Lose Fort Vaux--French Take Saillisel 37 XI. British Successes in the Ancre 41