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.

Greece's Atonement

6 pages in this part of World's War Events.

Greece's Atonement

THE Venizelists had been having a bad time of it from the first, but the blackest hours of all were those toward the end of last April…

Greece's Atonement: Constantine

I had just come up from Athens, where I had found the Allied diplomats still smarting under the memories of their ignominious experiences…

Greece's Atonement: Venizelist

There was nothing else for the Allies to do but "go slow" and "play safe" in dealing with the Venizelist army, and, under the…

Greece's Atonement: British

The Battle of "Rupel Pass." "The S--Division," "Rupel Pass." Instantly I recalled how a British General, over on the Struma a few days…

Greece's Atonement: Boris

I'm Boris the Bulgar, The Man With the Knife; The Pride of Sofia, The Taker of Life. Good gracious, how spacious And deep are the cuts, Of…

Greece's Atonement: Madame

Working double hours. "We are not enough for a double shift since the fighting began," Madame A--, the matron, had said to me the night of…

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