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Title: History of the World War, Vol. 3

Author: Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish

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HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR, VOLUME III

An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War

by

FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D.

In Collaboration with

RICHARD J. BEAMISH
Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst

With an Introduction by General Peyton C. March
Chief of Staff of the United States Army

With Exclusive Photographs by James H. Hare and Donald Thompson
World-Famed War Photographers
and with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the
United States, Canadian, British, French and Italian Governments

Leslie-Judge Company
New York

MCMXIX

[Illustration: THE THRILL OF OLD-TIME WAR

The stirrup charge of the Scots Greys at St. Quentin. Holding on to the
stirrup leathers of the cavalry the Highlanders crashed like an
avalanche upon the German lines, tearing great gaps in their massed
formations.]

CONTENTS

VOLUME III

PAGE
CHAPTER I. NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR
IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES

War Amid Barbed-Wire Entanglements and the Desolation
of No Man's Land--Subterranean Tactics Continuing Over
Four Years--Attacks that Cost Thousands of Lives for
Every Foot of Gain 1

CHAPTER II. ITALY DECLAR