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the Piave--Rise of Diaz
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
REDEMPTION OF THE HOLY LAND A Long Campaign Progressing Through Hardships to Glory--General Allenby Enters Jerusalem on Foot--Turkish Army Crushed in Palestine-- Battle of Armageddon
CHAPTER XXXIX.
AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS Government Ownership of Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones--Getting the Men from Training Camps to the Battle Fronts--From Texas to Toul--A Gigantic System Working Without a Hitch
CHAPTER XL.
SHIPS AND THE MEN WHO MADE THEM The Emergency Fleet Corporation--Charles M. Schwab as Master Shipbuilder--Hog Island the Wonder Shipyard of the World--An Unbeatable Record--Concrete Ships--Wooden Ships--Standardizing the Steel Ship--Attitude of Labor in the War--Samuel Gompers an Unofficial Member of the Cabinet--Great Task of the United States Employment Service
CHAPTER XLI.
GERMANY'S DYING DESPERATE EFFORT The High Tide of German Success--An Army of Six Million Men Flung Recklessly on the Allies--Most Terrific Battles in all History--The Red Ruin of War from Arras to St. Quentin--Amiens Within Arms' Reach of the Invaders--Paris Bombarded by Long-Range Guns from Distance of Seventy-six Miles--A Generalissimo at Last--Marshal Foch in Supreme Command
CHAPTER XLII.
CHATEAU-THIERRY, FIELD OF GLORY German Wave Stops with the Americans--Prussian Guard Flung Back--The Beginning of Autocracy's End--America's Record of Valor and Victory-- Cantigny--Belleau Wood--Thierry--St. Mihiel--Shock Troops of the Enemy Annihilated--Soldier's Remarkable Letter.
CHAPTER XLIII.
ENGLAND AND FRANCE STRIKE IN THE NORTH Second Terrific Blow of General Foch--Lens, the Storehouse of Minerals, Captured--Bapaume Retaken--British Snap the Famous Hindenburg Line--The Great Thrust Through Cambrai--Tanks to the Front--Cavalry in Action
CHAPTER XLIV.
BELGIUM'S GALLANT EFFORT The Little Army Under King Albert Thrusts Savagely at the Germans--Ostend and Zeebrugge Freed from the Submarine Pirates--Pathetic Scenes as Belgians are Restored to Their Homes
CHAPTER XLV.
ITALY'S TERRIFIC DRIVE Enemy Offensive Opens on Front of Ninety-Seven Miles--Repulse of the Austrians--Italy Turns the Tables--Terrific Counter-Thrusts from the Piave to Trente--Forcing the Alpine Passages--Battles High in the Air--English, French and Americans Back up the Italians in Humbling the Might of Austria--D'Annunzio's Romantic Bombardment of Vienna--Diaz Leads his Men to Victory
CHAPTER XLVI.
BULGARIA DESERTS GERMANY Greece in the Throes of Revolution--Fall of Constantine--Serbians Begin Advance on Bulgars--Thousands of Prisoners Taken--Surrender of Bulgaria--Panic in Berlin--Passage Through the Country Granted for Armies of the Allies--Ferdinand Abdicates--Germany's Imagined Mittel-Europa Dream Forever Destroyed
CHAPTER XLVII.
THE CENTRAL EMPIRES WHINE FOR PEACE Austria-Hungary Makes the First Plea--President Wilson's Abrupt Answer--Prince Max, Camouflaged as an Apostle of Peace, made Chancellor and Opens Germany's Pathetic Plea for a Peace by Negotiation--The President Replies on Behalf of all the Allied Powers--Foch Pushes on Regardless of Peace Notes
CHAPTER XLVIII.
BATTLES IN THE AIR Conquering the Fear of Death--From Individual Fights to Battles Between Squadrons--Heroes of the Warring Nations--America's Wonderful Record--From Nowhere to First Place in Eighteen Months--The Liberty Motor
CHAPTER XLIX.
HEALTH AND HAPPINESS OF THE AMERICAN FORCES Record of the Red Cross on all Fronts--A Gigantic Work Well Executed--Y. M. C. A.--Y. W. C. A.--Knights of Columbus--Jewish Welfare Association--Salvation Army--American Library Association--Other Organizations--Surgery and Sanitation
CHAPTER L.
THE PIRATES OF THE UNDER-SEAS Germany's Ruthless Submarine Policy--A Boomerang Destroying the Hand that Cast It--Terrorism that Failed--One Hundred and Fifty U-Boats Sunk or Captured--Shameless Surrender of the German Submarines and of the Fleet They Protected
CHAPTER LI.
APPROACHING THE FINAL STAGE Cutting the Railroads to Cambrai--Americans Co-operate with British in Furious Attack--Douai and St. Quentin Taken--The Battle Line Straightened for the Last Mighty Assault--All Hope Abandoned by the Kaiser
CHAPTER LII.
LAST DAYS OF THE WAR American Troops Join with the Allies in Colossal Drive on 71-mile Front--Historic Sedan Taken by the Yanks--Stenay, the Last Battle of the War--How the Opposing Forces Greeted the News of the Armistice
CHAPTER LIII.
THE DRASTIC TERMS OF SURRENDER Handcuffs for Four Nations--Bulgaria First to Fly the White Flag-- Allenby's Great Victory Forces Turkey Out--Austria Signs Quickly-- Germany's Capitulation Complete and Humiliating
CHAPTER LIV.
PEACE AT LAST An Unfounded Rumor Starts Enormous Jubilation--Armistice Signed Four Days Later--Kaiser Abdicates and Flees to Holland--Cowardly Ruler Seeks Protection of Small Neutral Nation--Looking Into the Future--Cost of War to the Nations--Liberty Loans--Reconstruction Problems--McAdoo Resigns--American Ideals in the Old World
CHAPTER LV.
AMERICA'S POSITION IN PEACE AND WAR President Wilson's Stirring Speech in Congress Which Brought the United States into the War--His Great Speech Before Congress Ending the War--The Fourteen Points Outlining America's Demands Before Peace Could be Concluded--Later Peace Principles Enunciated by the President
CHAPTER LVI.
THE WAR BY YEARS Condensed Word-Picture of the Happenings of the Most Momentous Fifty-two Months in All History--Leading Up to the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month of 1918
CHAPTER LVII.
BEHIND AMERICA'S BATTLE LINE General March's Story of the Work of the Military Intelligence Division--Of the War Plans Division--Of the Purchase and Traffic Divisions--How Men, Munitions and Supplies Reached the Western Front
CHAPTER LVIII.
GENERAL PERSHING'S OWN STORY The Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces Tells the Story of the Magnificent Combat Operations of his Troops that Defeated Prussia's Legions--Official Account Discloses Full Details of the Fighting.
CHAPTER LIX.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S REVIEW OF THE WAR A Year in the Life of the United States Crowded with Great Events--Tribute to the Soldiers and Sailors, the Workers at Home