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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British Troops in Possession of the Historic City of Bagdad. HISTORY OF THE WAB 71 tier. Opposed by only the thinnest ofdefenses, both had early successes. TheNiemen army won an easy victory atGumbinnen and approached within a fewmiles of the Koenigsberg fortress. TheWarsaw army reached the Allen stein dis-trict, but there it met with complete dis-aster. Germany became thoroughly alarmedby the Russian advance and hurriedlysent into the east units destined for and numbers of men were involved, in theearly stages of the war. He struck theRussian Warsaw columns at Tannenburgnear Allenstein and in three days, on atriangular front about 60 miles in lengthhe had practically annihilated an army ofa quarter of a million men, capturing morethan 100,000 prisoners and killing tens ofthousands more. The Russians weredriven into the Masurian marslies andmany of them were drowned. The re-
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The taking of Jerusalem and the entry of the British forces was probably the most historic event of the old world. France and which, conceivably, wouldhave turned the scales at the Battle of theMarne. General von Hindenburg, longin retirement, who had passed most of hisarmy life in East Prussia, was called backinto sei*vice and was placed in command.He distributed his army, between 200,000and 250,000 men, by means of the elabo-rate system of strategic railways coveringthe country and by late in August wasready to strike in counter offensive. Von Hindenburgs first victory was themost sensational, in so far as casualties mainder were in full fliglit and von Hin-denburg conducted an energetic pursuitback across the frontier. The retreat ofthe Northern Russian army ended on thebanks of the Niemen, where large rein-forcements met it. On the south, how-ever, it developed into the first Germanadvance on Warsaw. Wliile maintaining a strong force northof the Vistula to hold the Warsaw annynear

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