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The World’s Story Volume XV: The World War

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This is the last volume of the 15-volume series The World’s Story, originally started by Eva March Tappan. This book, edited by Horatio W. Dresser (1866-1954) deals exclusively with the time of the First World War, the events leading up to it, the battles and war engines, the political and diplomatic background endeavours and the cost - human and monetary - of this War. - Summary by Sonia (15 hr 44 min)

Chapters

The Cathedral at Rheims, photograph, frontispiece

2:56

Read by Sonia

The World War, Part I. The origin of the war. Historical note

2:33

Read by Sonia

The outbreak of hostilities, by Major F. E. Whitton

13:09

Read by Ezwa

Why did Germany invade Belgium ?, by S. S. McClure

8:13

Read by Ezwa

Belgium's part (1914), by Emile Verhaeren

7:34

Read by Ezwa

The real causes of the war (1914), by Charles W. Eliot

13:36

Read by Devorah Allen

Germany's military masters (1917), by Woodrow Wilson

6:10

Read by Wayne Cooke

The World War, Part II. The gathering of the armies. Historical note

3:11

Read by Wayne Cooke

The training of Kitchener's Mob (1914), by James Norman Hall

13:07

Read by April6090

The first hundred thousand in training (1914), by Ian Hay

9:03

Read by KuyaCarrot

En route with Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall

16:29

Read by April6090

The second German mobilization (1914), by Geoffrey Pyke

6:14

Read by atelo

The World War, Part III. On the Western Front 1914-1915. Historical note

2:47

Read by Devorah Allen

The retreat from Mons (1914), by a British Staff Officer

12:35

Read by Colleen McMahon

A gas attack, photograph p. 62

2:26

Read by Tomas Peter

The battle of the Marne (1914), by Major F. E. Whitton

21:51

Read by Colleen McMahon

The fall of Antwerp (1914), by Horace Green

18:02

Read by Colleen McMahon

A prisoner in Ruhleben (1915), by Geoffrey Pyke

12:17

Read by Colleen McMahon

The battle of the Slag-Heaps (1915), by Ian Hay

14:53

Read by Colleen McMahon

Flame-throwers, photograph p. 100

2:27

Read by Availle

The legion captures a trench (1915), by Edward Morlae

21:03

Read by Jim Locke

The World War, Part IV. On the Western and Italian Fronts 1916-1917. Historical…

2:42

Read by BettyB

The battle of Verdun (1916), by Raoul Blanchard

24:14

Read by janop

The biggest cannon on the Western Front, photograph p. 134

3:02

Read by Alan Mapstone

Caillette Wood, an episode of Verdun

7:28

Read by Tomas Peter

The fight for Montauban, an incident of the battle of the Somme (1916), by Ian …

20:07

Read by Jim Locke

A modern battlefield, photograph p. 148

1:47

Read by April6090

The battle of Messines Ridge (1917)

7:38

Read by akatsu

Charge of the Canadians at Vimy Ridge, photograph p. 162

2:31

Read by Alan Mapstone

The battle of Cambrai (1917), by Philip Gibbs

23:45

Read by EmilioC

The Garibaldi take the Col di Lana, told in Colonel ''Peppino'' Garibaldi's own…

16:42

Read by Jim Locke

The World War, Part V. The Eastern Front. Historical note

2:34

Read by Tomas Peter

Intrenched with the Austrians in Galicia (1914), by Fritz Kreisler

15:17

Read by Availle

The Russian victory at Przemysl (1915), by Bernard Pares

7:02

Read by Piotr Nater

The defeat at Gallipoli (1915), by Sir Ian Hamilton

11:01

Read by Alan Mapstone

Landing under fire at the Dardanelles, photograph p. 204

1:13

Read by Alan Mapstone

A British soldier at Suvla Bay (1915), by John Hargrave

9:25

Read by Brittany Bogle

Bulgaria enters the war (1915), by J. B. W. Gardiner

8:36

Read by Brittany Bogle

From Salonica (1916), by Albert Kinross

13:56

Read by Jim Locke

The World War, Part VI. The War in Asia and Africa. Historical note

2:51

Read by Devorah Allen

The attack on Tsing-Tau (1914), by Jefferson Jones

12:30

Read by Brittany Bogle

Campaigning under Botha (1915), by Cyril Campbell

12:56

Read by KuyaCarrot

General Smuts's campaign in German East Africa (1914-1915), by Cyril Campbell

12:41

Read by Jim Locke

With Maude at the taking of Bagdad (1917), by Arthur T. Clark

16:06

Read by Jim Locke

The British in the Promised Land (1917), by W. T. Massey

11:47

Read by BettyB

''Jerusalem delivered'', photograph p. 266

2:43

Read by Alan Mapstone

The World War, Part VII. Life in the trenches. Historical note

2:15

Read by Piotr Nater

The arrival of Kitchener's Mob (1915), by James Norman Hall

12:46

Read by April6090

The new warfare (1915), by Ian Hay

9:32

Read by Brittany Bogle

A description of trench life, by René Nicolas

7:33

Read by Tomas Peter

The impregnable trenches (1916), by Henry Sheahan

5:58

Read by Piotr Nater

The World War, Part VIII. The fighting machines. Historical note

2:45

Read by Tim811

The machines (1916), by William J. Robinson

30:51

Read by Jim Locke

German prisoners in Ypres, photograph p. 312

2:46

Read by Jim Locke

The machine-gun destroyers (1916), by Louis-Octave Philippe

15:43

Read by Jim Locke

The tanks (1917), by Colonel E. D. Swinton

15:11

Read by Jim Locke

British tanks in action, photograph p. 332

3:12

Read by Alan Mapstone

The World War, Part IX. The work of the Navies. Historical note

2:48

Read by BettyB

The escape of a merchantsman (1914), by Edward Noble

12:00

Read by Colleen McMahon

The Heligoland action (1914), by W. Macneille Dixon

13:35

Read by Jim Locke

The battle of Jutland (1916), by W. Macneille Dixon

21:51

Read by KevinS

The Emden (1914), by Lewis R. Freeman

12:06

Read by Alan Dove

The World War, Part X. The submarines. Historical note

2:34

Read by ToddHW

The sinking of the Lusitania (1915), by Charles E. Lauriat

10:26

Read by Availle

Life in a German submarine (1915), by Freiherrn von Forstner

18:15

Read by Piotr Nater

The work of the British submarines (1914-1917), by W. Macneille Dixon

12:12

Read by Availle

The World War, Part XI. Airplanes and zeppelins. Historical note

2:52

Read by Alan Mapstone

Flying in the war-zone, by Theta

12:50

Read by Availle

A French fighting plane, photograph p. 402

2:40

Read by Alan Mapstone

A zeppelin raid in London (1915), by Lewis R. Freeman

18:10

Read by Wayne Cooke

A great air battle, by a British war correspondent

8:41

Read by Alan Mapstone

The World War, Part XII. The hospital and ambulance services. Historical note

2:04

Read by ToddHW

Behind the Yser (1916), by Maud Mortimer

27:04

Read by Jim Locke

The American ambulance field service (1916), by A. P. A.

4:29

Read by ToddHW

American ambulance-drivers, photograph p. 440

2:22

Read by ToddHW

With ambulance No. 10 (1915), by Leslie Buswell

13:15

Read by Devorah Allen

With an ambulance at Verdun (1916), by William Yorke Stevenson

12:48

Read by EmilioC

Wonders of war surgery (1917)

15:15

Read by April6090

The World War, Part XIII. The Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A. Historical note

2:18

Read by Tomas Peter

The American Red Cross

4:21

Read by Heather Eney

Red Cross rest barracks (1917), by Elizabeth Frazer

8:15

Read by Jim Locke

The Y.M.C.A. at the Front, by Francis B. Sayre, with an introduction by John R.…

20:34

Read by Jim Locke

A Y.M.C.A. Hut ''somewhere in France'', photograph p. 476

2:07

Read by Tomas Peter

The World War, Part XIV. Political and financial problems. Historical note

2:36

Read by Jim Locke

Russia in Revolution (1917), by Paul Wharton

23:54

Read by Jim Locke

Street scene in Petrograd during the Revolution, photograph p. 488

2:11

Read by Sonia

The cost of the war

14:20

Read by Jim Locke

The human cost

14:39

Read by Jim Locke

The World War, Part XV. The entrance of the United States. Historical note

2:21

Read by ToddHW

The war message (1917), by Woodrow Wilson

20:19

Read by ToddHW

With the Americans at the Front (1917), by George Pattullo

16:07

Read by Jim Locke

The President defines America's war aims (1918), by Woodrow Wilson

12:18

Read by ToddHW