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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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asily figureto themselves the decks of H. M. S. Vindictive asshe lies today in stark, black profile against the seabase of the harbor, amid the stripped, trim shapesof fighting ships which throng these waters. That wilderness of debris, that litter of used andbroken tools of war, that lavish ruin, that prodigalevidence of death and battle, are as obvious andplentiful bTe as there. The ruined tank, nosing atthe stout tree which stopped it, had its parallel inthe flame-thrower hut at the port wing of the Vin-dictives bridge, its iron sides flecked with rentsfrom machine gun bullets and shell splinters. Thetall white cross which commemorates the martyr-dom of the Londoners is sister to the dingy piercedwhite ensign which floated over the fight at Zee-brugge mole. Looking aft from the chaos of its wrecked bridge,one sees snug against the wharf the heroic bour-geois shapes of the two Liverpool boats, the Iris andDaffodil, which shared with the Vindictive the hon-ors of the arduous fight. .
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Devastation in the wake of the Germans. Scene near Albert, one-half hour after the Germans evacuat-ed the town. The British Tommy in the foreground was the first to reach this region after the Ger-mans had departed. 390 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK Their objectives were the canal at Zeebrugge andthe harbor at Ostend. Three of the cruisers, theIntrepid, the Iphigenia and the Thetis, each dulypacked with concrete and with mines attached toits bottom for the purpose of sinlting it, Merrlmacfashion, in the neck of the canal, were aimed atZeebrugge. Two others, similarly prepared, weredirected at Ostend. The functions of the Vindictive, with its ferryboats, were to attack the great half-moon mole whichguards the Zeebrugge canal, to land bluejackets andmarines upon it. to destroy what stores and gunsof the Germans they could find, and generally createa diversion while the block ships ran in and sankthemselves in the appointed places. Vice-Admiral Keyes, in the destroyer Warwick,commanded the operat

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