CHAPTER I. A WAR FOR INTERNATIONAL FREEDOM
A Conflict that was Inevitable--The Flower of Manhood on the Fields of
France--Germany's Defiance to the World--Heroic Belgium--Four
Autocratic Nations against Twenty-four Committed to the Principles of
Liberty--America's Titanic Effort--Four Million Men Under Arms, Two
Million Overseas--France the Martyr Nation--The British Empire's
Tremendous Share in the Victory--A River of Blood Watering the Desert
of Autocracy

CHAPTER II. THE WORLD SUDDENLY TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
The War Storm Breaks--Trade and Commerce Paralyzed--Homeward Rush of
Travelers--Harrowing Scenes as Ships Sail for America--Stock Markets
Closed--The Tide of Desolation Following in the Wake of War

CHAPTER III. WHY THE WORLD WENT TO WAR
The Balkan Ferment--Russia, the Dying Giant Among Autocracies--Turkey
the "Sick Man" of Europe--Scars Left by the Balkan War--Germany's
Determination to Seize a Place in the Sun.

CHAPTER IV. THE PLOTTER BEHIND THE SCENES
The Assassination at Sarajevo--The Slavic Ferment--Austria's
Domineering Note--The Plotters of Potsdam--The Mailed Fist of
Militarism Beneath the Velvet Glove of Diplomacy--Mobilization and
Declarations of War

CHAPTER V. THE GREAT WAR BEGINS
Germany Invades Belgium and Luxemburg--French Invade Alsace--England's
"Contemptible Little Army" Lands in France and Belgium--The Murderous
Gray-Green Tide--Heroic Retreat of the British from Mons--Belgium
Overrun--Northern France Invaded--Marshal Joffre Makes Ready to Strike

CHAPTER VI. THE TRAIL OF THE BEAST IN BELGIUM
Barbarities that Shocked Humanity--Planned as Part of the Teutonic
Policy of Schrecklichkeit--How the German and the Hun Became
Synonymous Terms--The Unmatchable Crimes of a War-Mad Army--A Record
of Infamy Written in Blood and Tears--Official Reports

CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE MARNE
Joffre's Masterly Plan--The Enemy Trapped Between Verdun and
Paris--Gallieni's "Army in Taxicabs"--Foch, the "Savior of
Civilization," Appears--His Mighty Thrust Routs the Army of
Hausen--Joffre Salutes Foch as "First Strategist in Europe"--Battle
that Won the Baton of a Marshal

CHAPTER VIII. JAPAN IN THE WAR
Tsing Tau Seized by the Mikado--German "Gibraltar" of the Far East
Surrendered After Short Siege--Japan's Aid to the Allies in Money,
Ships, Men and Nurses--German Propaganda in the Far East Fails

CHAPTER IX. CAMPAIGN IN THE EAST
In