World's War Events

Nineteen dispatches from the war's last two years, told by the people who were there — a destroyer officer's diary, Pershing's own report, the raid on Zeebrugge, the fighting Czecho-Slovaks — ending with the Armistice terms and the treaties that redrew the map.

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Introduction

WORLD'S WAR EVENTS VOLUME III BEGINNING WITH THE DEPARTURE OF THE FIRST AMERICAN DESTROYERS FOR SERVICE ABROAD IN APRIL, 1917, AND CLOSING…

A Destroyer in Active Service

8 pages

East Africa

12 pages

Greece's Atonement

6 pages

The Italians at Bay

12 pages

Bottling Up Zeebrugge and Ostend

15 pages

With the American Submarines

10 pages

Wounded Heroes of France

8 pages

The Battle of Picardy

15 pages

Bulgaria Quits

13 pages

The Fighting Czecho-Slovaks

14 pages

Six Days on the American Firing Line

4 pages

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Highlights

The Italians at Bay

G. WARD PRICE Udine as it seemed before the war.

Treaty of Peace with Germany

THE preamble names as parties of the one part the United States, the British Empire, France, Italy, and Japan, described as the…

Armistice Terms Signed by Germany

ONE--Cessation of operations by land and in the air six hours after the signature of the armistice.

Six Days on the American Firing Line

CORPORAL H. J. BURBACH We reach the front. "WE have arrived!" The French Army officer, who, skilled through years of actual…

A Destroyer in Active Service

Life on a destroyer is simple.

Treaty of Peace with Austria

ON June 2 there had been handed to the Austrian delegates a preliminary treaty which covered certain points, but left others to…

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