IN FRANCE AND BELGIUM 159
_J. P. Whitaker_

IX. THE ANGLO-RUSSIAN CAMPAIGN IN TURKEY 174
_James B. MacDonald_

X. KITCHENER 188
_Lady St. Helier_

XI. WHY AMERICA BROKE WITH GERMANY 194
_President Woodrow Wilson_

XII. HOW THE WAR CAME TO AMERICA 205
_Official Account_

XIII. THE WAR MESSAGE 226
_President Woodrow Wilson_

XIV. BRITISH OPERATIONS AT SALONIKI 244
_Official Report of General Milne_

XV. IN PETROGRAD DURING THE SEVEN DAYS 253
_Arno Dosch-Fleurot_

XVI. AMERICA'S FIRST SHOT 271
_J.R. Keen_

XVII. GERMAN ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES 278
_House Committee on Foreign Affairs_

XVIII. PREPARING FOR WAR 298
_Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War_

XIX. THE CAPTURE OF JERUSALEM 344
_General E. H. H. Allenby_

XX. AMERICAN SHIPS AND GERMAN SUBMARINES 369
_From Official Reports_

THE BATTLE OF VERDUN

RAOUL BLANCHARD

Copyright, Atlantic Monthly, June, 1917.

[Sidenote: Greatest drama of the war.]

The Battle of Verdun, which continued through from February 21, 1916, to
the 16th of December, ranks next to the Battle of the Marne as the
greatest drama of the world war. Like the Marne, it represents the
checkmate of a supreme effort on the part of the Germans to end the war
swiftly by a thunderstroke. It surpasses the Battle of the Marne by the
length of the struggle, the fury with which it was carried on, the huge
scale of the operations. No complete analysis of it, however, has yet
been published--only fragmentary accounts, dealing with the beginning or
with mere episodes. Neither in France nor in Germany, up to the present
moment, has the whole story of the battle been told, describing its
vicissitudes, and following step by step the development of the stirring
drama. That is the task I have set myself here.

[Sidenote: German successes in France.]

[Sidenote: Preparations for