Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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BernstorffThe German arch conspirator and ex-ambassador. oO THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK rutlilessness at Termonde and Louvaiu,they choked the higliways and fields in theirmad flight. Gradually the west front campaign be-came centered in Flanders. The remnantsof the Belgian forces retired to the Yserand its network of canals. Unopposed, theGermans marched through Antwerp, whichthey had taken at negligible cost. Ostend,the gay seaside resort, the Monte Carlo ofthe north, was occupied and then Zee-brugge, the seaport of Bruges. The Ger- mans spread out until physically the entireBelgian coast was in their hands. Boththese ports, particularly Zeebrugge, servedlater as important submarine bases, andpoints from which England was held underthe constant menace of Zeppelin and de-stroyer raids. But it was Bologiie, Dunkirk and Calais—above all the latter—that wore needed tocomplete the strategical cliain the Germanssought to forge. Chief of Staff von Moltkehad been disciplined for overlooking its
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A German Lookout in a Waterproof Trench. A view of a sandbag-constructed trenchon the German battlefront in the Western battle zone showing how carefully the trench has been water-proofed. HISTORY OF capture in the very first phases of the war.Countless lives were lost in attempts tocorrect the- error which spread over thenext year and more. In that muggy, muddy, waterlogged littlecomer of Europe, hardly Ingger in areathan Greater New York, the Germans metsome of the most serious reverses of thewar. In those water soaked fields, amongthe sand dunes that flanked the tidal riversto the North Sea, some of the greatest featsof heroism and sacrifice were performed bythe British, Frencli and Belgians. Duringthat drear winter, when the men foughtknee deep in the mud and water in theiitrenches, when scant numerical strengthforced them to struggle sleepless for daysand nights without relief, when the Bel-gians, to stem the advance of the enemy,cut the dykes and flooded their own fieldsand home

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