The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of Europe — John Shaqi
The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of EuropeBénézet, Louis Paul
History
The World War and What was Behind It; Or, The Story of the Map of Europe
Bénézet, Louis Paul
Europe -- History; World War, 1914-1918 -- Causes
I. Distribution of Peoples According to Relationship
II. Distribution of Languages
III. Southeastern Europe in 600 B.C.
IV. Southeastern Europe 975 A.D.
V. Southeastern Europe 1690
VI. The Empire of Charlemagne
VII. Europe in 1540
VIII. The Growth of Brandenburg-Prussia 1400-1806
IX. Italy in 525
X. Italy in 650
XI. Italy in 1175
XII. Europe in 1796
XIII. Europe in 1810
XIV. Europe in 1815
XV. Italy Made One Nation—1914—
XVI. Formation of the German Empire
XVII. Southeastern and Central Europe 1796
XVIII. Losses of Turkey During the Nineteenth Century
XIX. Turkey As the Balkan Allies Planned to Divide It
XX. Changes Resulting from Balkan Wars 1912-1913
XXI. The Two Routes from Germany into France
XXII. The Roumanian Campaign as the Allies Wished It
XXIII. The Roumanian Campaign as It Turned Out
XXIV. Europe as It Should Be
List of Illustrations
I. The Peace Palace at the Hague
II. Fleeing from Their Homes, Around which a Battle is Raging
III. A Drill Ground in Modern Europe
IV. The Forum of Rome as It Was 1600 Years Ago
V. The Last Combat of the Gladiators
VI. Germans Going into Battle
VII. A Hun Warrior
VIII. Gaius Julius Caesar
IX. A Frankish Chief
X. Movable Huts of Early Germans
XI. Goths on the March
XII. Franks Crossing the Rhine
XIII. Men of Normandy Landing in England
XIV. Alexander Defeating the Persians
XV. A Knight in Armor
XVI. A Norman Castle in England
XVII. A Vassal Doing Homage to His Lord
XVIII. William the Conqueror
XIX. A Typical Bulgarian Family
XX. Mohammed II Before Constantinople
XXI. A Scene in Salonika
XXII. Louis XIV
XXIII. John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough
XXIV. The Great Elector of Brandenburg
XXV. Frederick the Great
XXVI. Catharine II
XXVII. Courtier of Time of Louis XIV
XXVIII. The Taking of the Bastille
XXIX. The Palace of Versailles
XXX. The Reign of Terror
XXXI. The First Singing of “The Marseillaise”
XXXII. Charles the Fifth
XXXIII. The Emperor Napoleon in 1814
XXXIV. The Retreat from Moscow
XXXV. Napoleon at Waterloo
XXXVI. The Congress of Vienna
XXXVII. Prince Metternich
XXXVIII. The First Meeting of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel
XXXIX. Bismarck
XL. An Attack on a Convoy in the Franco-Prussian War
XLI. The Proclamation at Versailles of William I as Emperor of Germany
XLII. Peter the Great
XLIII. Entrance to the Mosque of St. Sophia
XLIV. The Congress of Berlin
XLV. An Arab Sheik and His Staff
XLVI. A Scene in Constantinople
XLVII. Durazzo
XLVIII. A Modern Dreadnaught
XLIX. Submarine
L. A Fort Ruined by the Big German Guns
LI. Russian Peasants Fleeing Before the German Army
LII. A Bomb-proof Trench in the Western War Front
LIII. Venizelos
LIV. The Deutschland in Chesapeake Bay
LV. Crowd in Petrograd During the Revolution
LVI. Revolutionary Soldiers in the Duma
LVII. Kerensky Reviewing Russian Troops
LVIII. Flight from a Torpedoed Liner
LIX. President Wilson Reading the War Message
LX.
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