contains many
of the locations of the European battles. They are adapted from
Putnam's Handy Volume Atlas of the World, published by G.P. Putnam's
Sons, New York and London, 1921.

The next two maps from the USMA, West Point, map collection, compare
Europe before and after World War I.

Finally, a full map of the European theater has much detail. It should
be scaled up to about 500% for detail viewing. It is derived from a
larger map from Rand, McNally & Company's Indexed Atlas of the World,
Copyright 1898.

[Illustration: Western France; Southern England]

[Illustration: Western Front Battle Zone--Eastern France; Southern
Belgium; Western Germany]

[Illustration: WWI Locales; Lens; Cinde; Mons; Douai; Valenciennes;
Cambri Landrecies; St. Quentin; Sedan; Argonne Forest; Noyon; Chauny;
Soissons; Rheims; Verdun; Metz; Chateau-Thierry; St. Mihiel; Paris;
Sezanne]

[Illustration: Europe Before World War I]

[Illustration: Europe After World War I]

[Illustration: Europe, 1898]

This is a glossary of unfamiliar (to me) terms and places.

Boche
Disparaging term for a German.

camion
Truck or bus. [French]

charnel
Repository for the dead.

colliers
Coal miner

congerie
Accumulation, aggregation, collection, gathering

consanguinities
Relationship by blood or common ancestor. Close affinity.

deadweight
Displacement of a ship at any loaded condition minus the lightship
weight (weight of the ship with no fuel, passengers, cargo). It
includes the crew, passengers, cargo, fuel, water, and stores.

debouch
March from a confined area into the open; to emerge

Gross Tonnage
Volume of all ship's enclosed spaces (from keel to funnel) measured to
the outside of the hull framing (1 ton / 100 cu.ft.).

inst.
The current month: your letter of the 15th instant.

invest
Surround with troops or ships; besiege.

irredenta
Region culturally or historically related to one nation, but subject
to a foreign government.

Junker
Member of the Prussian landed aristocracy, formerly associated with
political reaction and militarism.

Kiao-chau
German protectorate from 1898 to 1915, on the Yellow Sea coast of
China. It was on 200 square miles of the Shantung Peninsula around the
city of Tsingtao, leased to Germany for one hundred years by the
imperial Chinese government. In 1898 Tsingtao was an obscure fishing
village of 83,000 inhabitants. When Ger