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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360 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK
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The battle of Cambrai.British troops are shown advancing on the German lines across a field of barbed wire entanglementsand shell craters. In the distance the first wave of British troops are shown advancing on the Germantrenches, while the second wave waits ready to follow closely behind the leaders. the enemy and killed 150. That closed thefighting for the year 1916. The result of the Sonuiie offensive of1916 was not fully seen until the springof 1917, when the enemy, fearful of freshallied attacks, evacuated the whole salientbetween the Oise and the Scarpe rivers andwithdrew to what was called the Hinden-burg line. This front ran in a fairlystraight north-and-south line from theregion of Soissons to tlie region of Arras.Its northern end rested on Vimy ridge,which was the northern pivotal point forthe German retirement. The enemy with-drawal was in full progress by March 17th,when the revolution overturned the Czar-istic regime in Russia. On April 9th theBritish forces launched a gr

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