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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 Germany withdrew in 1915, Tsingtao was an important trading port with a population of 275,000.
kine Plural of cow.
kultur German culture and civilization as idealized by the exponents of German imperialism during the Hohenzollern and Nazi regimes.
lighterage Transportation of goods on a lighter (large flatbottom barge used to deliver or unload goods to or from a cargo ship or transport goods over short distances.)
lyddite An explosive consisting chiefly of picric acid, a poisonous, explosive yellow crystalline solid, C6H2(NO2)3OH.
mitrailleuse Machine gun.
morganatic Marriage between a person of royal birth and a partner of lower rank, where no titles or estates of the royal partner are to be shared by the partner of inferior rank nor by any of the offspring.
nugatory Of little or no importance; trifling; invalid.
pastils Small medicated or flavored tablet; tablet containing aromatic substances burned to fumigate or deodorize the air; pastel paste or crayon.
poilus French soldier, especially in World War I.
pourparler Discussion preliminary to negotiation.
prorogue Discontinue a session of parliament; postpone; defer.
punctilio Fine point of etiquette; precise observance of formalities.
rinderpest Contagious viral disease, chiefly of cattle, causing ulceration of the alimentary tract and diarrhea.
Sublime Porte [French. Porte: a gate] Ottoman court; government of the Turkish empire; from the gate of the sultan's palace.
Tsing-tao (Qing-dao) City in eastern China on the Yellow Sea, north-northwest of Shanghai. The city was leased in 1898 to the Germans, who established a famous brewery.
Uhlans Horse cavalry of the Polish, German, Austrian, and Russian armies.
ukase Order or decree; an edict; proclamation of a czar having the force of law in imperial Russia.
verbund [German] Interconnection.
Wipers British soldiers' pronunciation of "Ypres".
Zemstvos An elective council for the administration of a provincial district in czarist Russia.
[End Transcriber's notes]

[Illustration: THE VICTORIOUS GENERALS; photographs] General Foch, Commander-in-Chief of all Allied forces. General Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American armies. Field Marshal Haig, head of the British armies. General d'Esperey (French) to whom Bulgaria surrendered. General Diaz, Commander-in-Chief of the Italian armies. General Marshall (British), head of the Mesopotamian expedition. General Allenby (British), who redeemed Palestine from the Turks.

HISTORY OF THE WORLD WAR
An Authentic Narrative of The World's Greatest War
By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D. In Collaboration with RICHARD J. BEAMISH Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst
With an Introduction By GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH Chief of Staff of the United States Army
Illustrated with Reproductions from the Official Photographs of the United States, British and French Governments
PUBLISHED FOR THE UNITED PUBLISHERS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO TORONTO 1919

COPYRIGHT, 1918
FRANCIS A. MARCH
This history is an original work and is fully protected by the copyright laws, including the right of translation. All persons are warned against reproducing the text in whole or in part without the permission of the publishers.
WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF STAFF. WASHINGTON,
NOVEMBER 14, 1918. With the signing of the Armistice on November 11, 1918, the World War has been practically brought to an end. The events of the past four years