Identifier: literarydigesthi01hals (find matches)
Title: The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting), 1851-1919, comp
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n 281 General Paul Pau •. . . 286 Louvain After the German Bombardment 294 The Library of Louvain Before It was Destroyed ... 295 Belgians Digging Trenches 309 Siege Gun Used to Reduce Belgian Forts 313 The Fortress of Dinant on the Meuse 318 Malines After the Bombardment 321 Part of the Waterfront of Antwerp 329 Protecting a Rubens in Antwerp 335 Belgian Armored Train 337 German Soldiers Sharing Food with Belgian Orphans ... 349 Cardinal Mercier of Belgium 355 James Viscount Bryce 358 Edith Cavell in Brussels 364 Brane Whitlock, American Minister to Belgium ... 366 London Honors to Miss Cavell's Memory 367 General Baron von Bissing 373 Herbert A. Hoover 374 MAPS Bosnia, Herzegovina and Serbia .... facing page 72 The Balkan Wars Before and After 77 The German Advance Across Belgium ... facing page 256 Liege and Its Ring of Forts 260 The Rhine Frontier of Germany and France ... facing page 272 The Approaches to Antwerp facing page 328 Antwerp and Its Ring of Forts 331 in

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A GROUP OF WAR CORRESPONDENTS
Will Irwin
Herbert Bayard Swope
Ellis Ashmead Bartlett (© International Film Service, N.Y.)
Richard Harding Davis (© International Film Service. N.Y.)
Karl H. von Wiegand
Walter Duranty
Caspar Whitney
Edwin L. James

THE SOURCES FOR THIS HISTORY
In the first year of the war a press censorship, more severe than ever known before, was imposed on news from all battle fronts, the result being that it was not until long after events occurred that the public acquired any clear knowledge of them. This was conspicuously true of the first battle of the Marne, and the means by which Joffre effected his great victory, and especially the relation of that battle to Castelnaus resistance to the Germans at the Grand Couronne. Of the battle of Morhange — the only considerable battle in the whole war that was fought on German soil, and a greater battlethan any of those fought in the same period in Belgium and during the retreat to Paris — nothing whatever was really known, not even ...

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