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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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e could ob-tain, had been angling between the Alliesand the Central Powers. The crushing ofSerbia, therefore, was absolutely necessaryso that the bait could be held out and anydoubts of ultimate Prussian victory re-moved from the vacillating Bulgarianmind. Gen. von Mackensen, fresh from suc-cesses against the Russians, was taken fromthe eastern front and placed in command ofa huge force. As he had depended upon apreponderance of heavy guns against theRussians, so did von Mackensen plan tocrush the foe in the Balkans. In October,1915, the invasion began. The Serbian bor-der was crossed and von Mackensens armypushed relentlessly on. His heavy gunsheld the Serbs at his mercy and tliey wereliterally blown out of their land. Bulgariahad seen the light of Teutonic reasoningand she began an invasion of Serbia fromthe east. Caught between two foes, out-numbered at every point, the Serbiansfought bravely, but were overwhelmed.Belgrade fell to the Teutons; Nish, the 105 106 THE PEOPLES WAR BOOK
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HISTORY OF THE WAR 107 principal city after the capital, was takenl)y the Bnlgars. The tigliting was savageand to add to the horrors of that retreatthrough the mountains, a plague swept theland. Hundreds of tliousands perislied.The little nation suffered terribly and reliefexpeditions from the United States weresent to allay the suffering. By Deceml)er,Serbia was out of the Avar. Her populationhad fallen before von M ackensens greatguns and the sweep of the plague. Montenegros army, too, had lieen wipedfrom the map and tiie remnants of the twoforces retreated, part to Saloniki, wherethey effected a juncture with, tlie Alliedforces that had lieen landed in a tardyeffort to bring succor, and part in Albania,where they eventually were removed byAllied transports and warships to theIsland of Corfu, where they were restedand prepared to rejoin the Allies later inthe drive through the Balkans. The Aus-

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