The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

Horatio W. Dresser (1866 - 1954)

This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia

Genre(s): War & Military Fiction, Modern (20th C)

Language: English

Group: World's Story

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece Sonia
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Play 02 The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note Sonia
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Play 03 The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton Ezwa
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Play 04 Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure Ezwa
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Play 05 Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren Ezwa
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Play 06 The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot Devorah Allen
00:13:36
Play 07 Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson Wayne Cooke
00:06:10
Play 08 The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note Wayne Cooke
00:03:11
Play 09 The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall April6090
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Play 10 The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay KuyaCarrot
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Play 11 En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall April6090
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Play 12 The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke atelo
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Play 13 The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note Devorah Allen
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Play 14 The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer Colleen McMahon
00:12:35
Play 15 A gas attack, photograph p. 62 Tomas Peter
00:02:26
Play 16 The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton Colleen McMahon
00:21:51
Play 17 The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green Colleen McMahon
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Play 18 A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke Colleen McMahon
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Play 19 The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay Colleen McMahon
00:14:53
Play 20 Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100 Availle
00:02:27
Play 21 The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae Jim Locke
00:21:03
Play 22 The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical note BettyB
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Play 23 The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard janop
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Play 24 The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134 Alan Mapstone
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Play 25 Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun Tomas Peter
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Play 26 The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian Hay Jim Locke
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Play 27 A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148 April6090
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Play 28 The battle of Messines Ridge (1917) akatsu
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Play 29 Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162 Alan Mapstone
00:02:31
Play 30 The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs EmilioC
00:23:45
Play 31 The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own words (1916), by Lewis R. Freeman Jim Locke
00:16:42
Play 32 The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note Tomas Peter
00:02:34
Play 33 Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler Availle
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Play 34 The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares Piotr Nater
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Play 35 The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton Alan Mapstone
00:11:01
Play 36 Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204 Alan Mapstone
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Play 37 A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave Brittany Bogle
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Play 38 Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner Brittany Bogle
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Play 39 From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross Jim Locke
00:13:56
Play 40 The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note Devorah Allen
00:02:51
Play 41 The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones Brittany Bogle
00:12:30
Play 42 Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell KuyaCarrot
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Play 43 General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell Jim Locke
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Play 44 With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark Jim Locke
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Play 45 The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey BettyB
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Play 46 ''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266 Alan Mapstone
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Play 47 The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note Piotr Nater
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Play 48 The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall April6090
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Play 49 The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay Brittany Bogle
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Play 50 A description of trench life, by René Nicolas Tomas Peter
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Play 51 The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan Piotr Nater
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Play 52 The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note Tim811
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Play 53 The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson Jim Locke
00:30:51
Play 54 German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312 Jim Locke
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Play 55 The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe Jim Locke
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Play 56 The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton Jim Locke
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Play 57 British tanks in action, photograph p. 332 Alan Mapstone
00:03:12
Play 58 The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note BettyB
00:02:48
Play 59 The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble Colleen McMahon
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Play 60 The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon Jim Locke
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Play 61 The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon KevinS
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Play 62 The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman Alan Dove
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Play 63 The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note ToddHW
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Play 64 The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat Availle
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Play 65 Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner Piotr Nater
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Play 66 The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon Availle
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Play 67 The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note Alan Mapstone
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Play 68 Flying in the war-zone, by Theta Availle
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Play 69 A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402 Alan Mapstone
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Play 70 A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman Wayne Cooke
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Play 71 A great air battle, by a British war correspondent Alan Mapstone
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Play 72 The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note ToddHW
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Play 73 Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer Jim Locke
00:27:04
Play 74 The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A. ToddHW
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Play 75 American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440 ToddHW
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Play 76 With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell Devorah Allen
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Play 77 With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson EmilioC
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Play 78 Wonders of war surgery (1917) April6090
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Play 79 The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note Tomas Peter
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Play 80 The American Red Cross Heather Eney
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Play 81 Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer Jim Locke
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Play 82 The Y.M.C.A. at the Front, by Francis B. Sayre, with an introduction by John R. Mott, General Secretary of the National War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A. Jim Locke
00:20:34
Play 83 A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476 Tomas Peter
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Play 84 The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note Jim Locke
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Play 85 Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton Jim Locke
00:23:54
Play 86 Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488 Sonia
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Play 87 The cost of the war Jim Locke
00:14:20
Play 88 The human cost Jim Locke
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Play 89 The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note ToddHW
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Play 90 The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson ToddHW
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Play 91 With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo Jim Locke
00:16:07
Play 92 The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson ToddHW
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