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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o battle thesubmarine. It has been a reserve forcewhich would have come into play had anyreverse at sea befallen the fleets of theEuropean allies. Brazil has also contributed vessels to theguarding of the Atlantic against the sub-marine, and Greek vessels, since Const an-tine was expelled, have aided in the patrolof the eastern Mediterranean. From a purely materialistic viewpointthe Hun did not unwisely in pinning hisfaith to the submarine. It has taken theunited sea power of the free nations to putdown its menace. Where the Hun miscal-culated was, first, in l)elieving that victorycould be won by land power without pre-dominating sea power; second, in so usinghis sea power as to make it clear that therecould be no safety for the rest of the worlduntil the Hun was not only swept from theseas, but also ground to powder on land. The end of the war came with startlingswiftness. Almost as suddenly as it brokeupon the world, it collapsed in an abjectdefeat, not only of the German army, but,
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294 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK much more significant, in the defeat anderadication of the German idea. On July 15, 1918, the German armiesarmies were threatening Paris. The cap-ital of France was under bombardment bythe seventy-five-mile gun. The troops ofthe United States were just beginning toarrive in sufficient numbers to constitutea real force. A great German drive startedon the Marne. There it stopped, and inthree days it was turned back into one ofthe great defeats of history, and since thatdate the allies have enjoyed an unbrokenprocession of victories, while the Centralpowers have fallen apart until there is leftonly Germany, with its cowering war lordrunning to take refuge from his peoplewith his armies. It is a dii¥erent picture the blustering-beast of Potsdam now presents from thepompous general seeking to conquer thecontinent of Europe and extend his do-minions into Asia. Hand in hand with amade in Germany Gott, he promised hispeople the countries of Europe as their reward for

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