World War I: History of the World War, Complete EditionWildside Press LLC, 01/03/2008 - 260 من الصفحات A complete history of World War I, by Francis A. March, Ph.D., in collaboration with Richard J. Beamish, Special War Correspondent and Military Analyst. With photographs by James H. Hare and Donald Thompson, plus official photographs of the U.S., Canadian, British, French, and Italian governments. |
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PEACE AT LAST | 50 |
AMERICAS POSITION IN PAGE | 62 |
THE WAR BY YEARS | 87 |
BEHIND AMERICAS BAT | 98 |
GENERAL PERSHINGS | 118 |
PRESIDENT WILSONS | 156 |
CHRONOLOGY OF AMERICAN OPERATIONS | 189 |
SUMMARIZED CHRONOLOGY OF WAR | 204 |
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advance Aisne Allied and associated Allies and United American armistice artillery fire associated Powers August Austria-Hungary Austrians Austro-Hungarian battle Belgium bombardment breaks with Germany British Bulgaria Cambrai captured Château-Thierry Chemin des Dames Chief of Staff command Commander-in-Chief Congress counterattack cruisers declares defense destroyers Division attacked Division repulsed east enemy enemy's equipment evacuated Fifth Corps fighting fleet Foch forces Forty-second France front German German High German submarine HIGH SEAS FLEET infantry July justice kilometers machine guns Major-General marines Marne ment Meuse Mihiel miles nations naval neutral November occupied October offensive officers operations organization Ourcq patrols peace ports President Wilson prisoners retreat Rheims Roumania Russian salient Second Division sector September Serbia ships Soissons soldiers Stenay submarine sunk supply surrender taken territory Third Corps tion tons torpedoed transport Turkish Twenty-eighth Division United States army Verdun Vesle vessels warfare
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 82 - The removal, so far as possible, of all economic barriers and the establishment of an equality of trade conditions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
الصفحة 83 - Serbia, and Montenegro should be evacuated, occupied territories restored, Serbia accorded free and secure access to the sea, and the relations of the several Balkan States to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established lines of allegiance and nationality...
الصفحة 67 - Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.
الصفحة 74 - We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know that in such a Government, following such methods, we can never have a friend ; and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in wait to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured security for the democratic Governments of the world.
الصفحة 81 - Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial waters, alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
الصفحة 84 - A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political Independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
الصفحة 69 - I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it...
الصفحة 70 - I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation, by well conceived taxation. I say sustained so far as may be equitable by taxation because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to base the credits which will now be necessary entirely on money borrowed. It is our duty, I most respectfully urge, to protect our people so far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans.
الصفحة 67 - I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non-combatants, men, women, and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history been deemed innocent and legitimate.