4

CHARGING THROUGH BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS 6

BRITISH INDIAN TROOPS CHARGING THE GERMAN
TRENCHES AT NEUVE CHAPELLE 10

CHARGING ON GERMAN TRENCHES IN GAS MASKS 12

AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR IN FLANDERS 18
[Transcriber's Note: This illustration was missing from
the source for this e-book.]

ITALY'S TITANIC LABOR TO CONQUER THE ALPS 30

WAITING THE ORDER TO ATTACK 38

TRANSPORTING WOUNDED AMID THE DIFFICULTIES
OF THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN FRONT 42

THE LOSS OF THE "IRRESISTIBLE" 68

THE HISTORIC LANDING FROM THE "RIVER CLYDE"
AT SEDDUL BAHR 76

ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS 98

ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY 98

GERMAN FRIGHTFULNESS FROM THE AIR 110

BAGDAD THE MAGNIFICENT FALLS TO THE BRITISH 208

AMMUNITION FOR THE GUNS 224

HOW VERDUN WAS SAVED 224

CHAPTER I

NEUVE CHAPELLE AND WAR IN BLOOD-SOAKED TRENCHES

After the immortal stand of Joffre at the first battle of the Marne and
the sudden savage thrust at the German center which sent von Kluck and
his men reeling back in retreat to the prepared defenses along the line
of the Aisne, the war in the western theater resolved itself into a play
for position from deep intrenchments. Occasionally would come a sudden
big push by one side or the other in which artillery was massed until
hub touched hub and infantry swept to glory and death in waves of gray,
or blue or khaki as the case might be. But these tremendous efforts and
consequent slaughters did not change the long battle line from the Alps
to the North Sea materially. Here and there a bulge would be made by
the terrific pressure of men and material in some great assault like
that first push of the British at Neuve Chapelle, like the German attack
at Verdun or like the tremendous efforts by both sides on that bloodiest
of all battlefields, the Somme.

Neuve Chapelle deserves particular mention as the test in which the
British soldiers demonstrate