File:The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources- American, British, French, German, and others (1919) (14757090836).jpg

Identifier: literarydigesthi05hals (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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
cloud. As the sky darkened and the wind blewmists away, enormous flames were seen burning in Bailleul,in the glare dark masses of walls and broken roofs outlinedjaggedly by fire. To the left the village of Locre was aflameunder a storm of high explosives. There were burning farmsand hamlets as far south as Merville, and lesser fires ofsingle cottages and haystacks. The wind drifted smoke 80 LUDENDORFFS COLOSSAL DRIVE IX THE WEST across the sky in long white ribbons. Drum-fire broke outand the earth trembled with it. It was like the beating ofall the drums of the world in muffled tattoo, above whichand through which were enormous clangoring hammer-strokes. For miles all this panorama of battle was boilingand seething with bursting shells and curling wreaths ofsmoke from batteries in action. When darkness came eachbattery was revealed by its flashes, all the fields aroundfilled with red wingings and sharp stabs of flame. Singleguns spoke with overpowering, voices shaking the ground with
Text Appearing After Image:
(C) INTERNATIONAL F.lM SER. ICE N Y. AMERICAN SOLDIERS PROTECTED AGAINST GERMAN POISON GAS an earthquake tremor. There was no real darkness of night.Every second the sky was crossed by rushes of light, burn-ing beacons, and gun-flashes etching outlines of trees andcottages. Almost till darkness came, airmen were flyinglow, searching through the mists for movements of troops,in order to call guns to shell and scatter them.-^ The British army had been going through a severe strain,and that strain was reflected at home. The situation hadhad critical moments and still was decidedly an anxious one. ^Dispatch from Philip Gibbs in The Times (New York). 81 ON THE WESTERN FRONT The British army was playing the role which it often hadplayed before. It was fighting a Waterloo. Multiply thebattle of Waterloo a hundredfold and the situation at noonin that battle corresponded to the situation now in the greatworld-battle. The enormous task which the British armyhad performed and still was performin

Note About Images