Category: The Little Book of the War
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The little book of the war: The Americans as Helpers
Chapter 10 The Americans as Helpers It is one thing to become an ally, and quite another to have an army prepared to make our proffered alliance of value. After the indifference with which Germany met American protests in regard to the sinking of the Lusitania and the U-boat warfare, the thinking people of the…
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The Little Book of the War
The Little Book of the War outlines the events and consequences of World War I, detailing causes, key battles, and the involvement of various nations, including America.
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The little book of the war: The Crumbling of Russia
Chapter 9 The Crumbling of Russia In 1916, the Allies had attacked the Central Powers on all sides, and they planned to do this again in 1917, but on a larger scale. There were great hopes that this course would bring the war to an end. Before anything could be done, however, an event came…
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The little book of the war: The War in 1915
Chapter 6 The War in 1915 By both words and deeds Germany had declared that she believed in conducting war with “frightfulness”; that is, with such cruelty and ferocity that her adversaries would in mortal terror yield to her at once. In accordance with this theory, she decided to destroy the Lusitania, a great passenger…
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The little book of the war: The Troubles of Neutrals
Chapter 5 The Troubles of Neutrals The old pictures of warfare with troops drawn up in opposing lines, graceful clouds of smoke rising here and there, and picturesque “tented fields” in the distance are quite out of date. In these days the men are hidden in trenches, often only two or three hundred yards apart,…
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The little book of the war: Modern Methods of Warfare
Chapter 4 Modern Methods of Warfare If some dead soldier of our Civil War could come to life and see the present methods of carrying on warfare, he would be far more dazed than Rip Van Winkle ever was. The trench system has already been spoken of. The use of camouflage, the disguise or concealment…
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The little book of the war: Kitchener’s Mob
Chapter 3 “Kitchener’s Mob” During the first two months of the war, two new countries joined the Allies besides those that have been named, Japan and Montenegro. Japan had before this made an agreement to stand by England, in the East; but she had also two strong reasons of her own for wishing to have…
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The little book of the war: The Dash Toward Paris
Chapter 2 The Dash Toward Paris Two days after the Austrian Minister left Belgrade, a telegraphic conversation began among the representatives of several of the countries of Europe, which was in effect as follows:— Sir Edward Grey, Minister of Foreign Affairs for England: I invite the German and the Italian Ambassadors to England, as friends…
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The little book of the war: Terms of Peace
Terms of Peace Appendix: President Wilson’s Peace Terms The following are the general terms of peace, as stated by President Wilson, with the agreement of the Allies. From the President’s Message of January 8, 1918 1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understandings of any kind,…