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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Bottling Up Zeebrugge and Ostend: Warwick

The Warwick takes off the men from the canal.

While the Warwick took them on board, they saw Vindictive, towed loose from the Mole by Daffodil, turn and make for home-a great black shape, with funnels gapped and leaning out of the true, flying a vast streamer of flame as her stokers worked her up-her, the almost wreck-to a final display of seventeen knots. Her forward funnel was a sieve; her decks were a dazzle of sparks; but she brought back intact the horseshoe nailed to it, which Sir Roger Keyes had presented to her commander.

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