222

Wreck of the Bluecher in the North Sea Battle 254

Serbian Infantrymen on Their Way to the Front 302

General von Hindenburg 382

Gerdauen, East Prussia, Destroyed in Russian Invasion 478

LIST OF MAPS

Page

Peace Distribution of Army Corps and Naval Stations of Belligerent
Powers (_Colored Map_) _Front Insert_

France, Pictorial Map of 11

Belgium, Beginning of German Invasion of 17

Alsace-Lorraine, French Invasion of 51

Battle of Mons and Retreat of Allied Armies 71

Battle of the Marne--Beginning on September 5, 1914 89

Battle of the Marne--Situation on September 9, 1914 98

Battle of the Marne--End of German Retreat and the Intrenched
Line on the Aisne River 107

Liege Fort, German Attack of 162

Antwerp, Siege and Fall of 162

Flanders, Battle Front in 173

German and English Naval Positions 199

War in the East--Relation of the Eastern Countries to Germany 263

The Balkans, Pictorial Map of 293

Serbian and Austrian Invasions 296

Russia, Pictorial Map of 364

Galicia, Russian Invasion of 367

Battle of Tannenberg 440

[Illustration: Peace Distribution of Army Corps and Naval
Stations of Belligerent Powers.]

PART I--GREAT BATTLES OF THE WESTERN ARMIES

CHAPTER I

ATTACK ON BELGIUM

The first great campaign on the western battle grounds in the European
War began on August 4, 1914. On this epoch-making day the German army
began its invasion of Belgium--with the conquest of France as its
ultimate goal. Six mighty armies stood ready for the great invasion.
Their estimated total was 1,200,000 men. Supreme over all was the
Emperor as War Lord,