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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y pushed up theriver again toward Bagdad and in threemonths, or on March 11th, 1917, the cityof the Arabian Nights was in Britishhands. The campaign then was pushed throughwith a rush. Gen. Sir Edmund Allenby, who was destined later to accomplish thecomplete overthrow of the Ottoman Em-pire and do what the Allied fleets hadfailed to do at the Dardanelles and thesacrifice of the British had failed to ac-complish at Gallipoli, entered Jerusalem.The city of the crusades fell to the Britishin December and tlie end of the year sawthe British in complete control of Meso-potamia, Syria and Palestine. The capture of Jerusalem removed thedanger which, from time to time, hadthreatened the British hold on the SuezCanal. The tribes of Arabia and lowerTurkey had been incited to rise andslaughter the infidel. But these upris-ings had been frustrated and the canalhad been held, though the subject ofanxiety until Gen. Allenby marched intotlie Holy City and threw a barrier be-tween the Turk and Egypt.
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Czecho-Slovaks at Vladivostok ready to leave for the Russian Interior. Tlie armies of the Czecho-Slovaks that attempted to free Siberia from the Bolsheviki. History of the War C H A P T E E VII GERMANYS DECISION TO CRUSH SERBIA—MONTENEGRO TO BE DE-STROYED—GREECE ESPOUSES ALLIED CAUSE — ALLIES DEFENDGREECE —ROUMANIA ENTERS WAR ON SIDE OF ALLIES — ALLIES UN-ABLE TO HELP ROUMANIA —GERMANY CRUSHES ROUMANIA While the great powers tore at eachothers throat in the west and east, Ser-bia, the little kingdom whose fate hadcaused the great conflict, was almost lostsight of in the clashes of great armies,pretentious advances and sanguinary de-feats and retreats. At the outbreak of the war in August,1914, it was expected that one of the firstblows of the war would be struck at Ser-bia and the eyes of the world watcheddevelopments along the Danube. It wasexpected that the armies of Austria wouldsweep over the little nation. Closely alliedby blood, friendship and proximity, Mon-tenegro,

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