Category: The Little Book of the War
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The little book of the war: Postscript- The End of the War
Chapter 11 Postscript—The End of the War When the last sentence was written, no one doubted that Germany would surrender some time; the only question was “When?” Her last frantic drive came to an end with her defeat in the second battle of the Marne. In the autumn of 1918 she requested an armistice, with…
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The little book of the war: The War in 1916
Chapter 7 The War in 1916 The year 1916 began with a struggle which lasted for six long months to decide whether a certain little town in France should be captured by the Central Powers or remain in the hands of the French. That little town was Verdun. It runs up the hill from the…
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The little book of the war: The Spark that Exploded the Magazine
Chapter 1 The Spark that Exploded the Magazine When the grandfathers of the present school-children were studying geography and came to the map of Europe, they found just north of Greece a broad band of country extending from the Black Sea to the Adriatic which was called Turkey. It was bounded on the north by…