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.

Table of Contents

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

An American Battlefield

15 pages

Night Raids from the Air

4 pages

The American Army in Europe

32 pages

Armistice Terms Signed by Germany

5 pages

Covenant of the League of Nations

6 pages

Treaty of Peace with Germany

29 pages

Treaty of Peace with Austria

6 pages

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