in
the war, for it foreshadows the creation of a great American Army in
France._]

THE STORY OF THE GREAT WAR

SOMME . RUSSIAN DRIVE
FALL OF GORITZ . RUMANIA
GERMAN RETREAT . VIMY
REVOLUTION IN RUSSIA
UNITED STATES AT WAR

VOLUME VI

P . F . Collier & Son . New York

Copyright 1916
By P. F. Collier & Son

CONTENTS

PART I.--WESTERN FRONT--SOMME AND VERDUN

CHAPTER Page

I. French and British Advances 9

II. Further Successes--French Capture Maurepas 13

III. German Counterattacks 16

IV. Operations at Verdun--British Victories in the Somme 19

V. The "Tanks"--British Capture Martinpuich 21

VI. Capture of Combles--Air Raids 25

VII. British Capture Eaucourt L'Abbaye-Regina Trench 28

VIII. Continued Allied Advance 31

IX. French Retake Douaumont 34

X. Germans Lose Fort Vaux--French Take Saillisel 37

XI. British Successes in the Ancre 41

XII. Operations on the French Front--Further Fighting in
the Ancre 47

XIII. Weather Conditions--Movements Around Loos 51

XIV. French Win at Verdun 53

XV. Canadians at Arras--Nivelle in Command 55

XVI. German Attacks at Verdun--Result of Six Months' Fighting 58

XVII. German Attack on Hill 304--British Surprise Attack 61

PART II.--EASTERN FRONT

XVIII. The New Drive Against Lemberg 70

XIX. The Battle on the Stokhod River 76

XX. Renewed Drive Against Lemberg 81

XXI. The Fighting from Riga to Lutsk 86

XXII. Fighting in the Carpathians 90

XXIII. Winter at the Eastern Front 93

PART III.--THE BALKANS

XXIV. Rumania's Military Strength 95

XXV. Hostilities Begin