XXXI. The Battle of the River Argechu 117
XXXV. A Greek Army Surrenders to Germany 129
XXXVII. The Greeks on the Firing Line 134
XLII. Fighting in the Streets of Athens 145
XLV. Fall and Winter on the Austro-Italian Front 153
PART VI.--THE UNITED STATES AND THE BELLIGERENTS
LVI. The German Retreat Continues--French Recover 120 Towns 227
LVII. The British Troops Capture Vimy Ridge and Monchy--French Victories on the Aisne 239
LVIII. French Victories in Champagne--The British Capture Bullecourt 252
LIX. The Battle of Messines Ridge--British Smash the German Salient South of Ypres 263
LX. The Germans Defeat British on Belgian Coast--Intense Fighting in the Champagne and at Verdun 276
PART VIII.--THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY
LXXIV. Rasputin, the Evil Spirit of Russia 374
LXXXIII. First Acts of the New Régime 404
LXXXVI. Kerensky Saves Russia from Herself 412
LXXXVIII. The End of Winter at the Eastern Front 421
LXXXIX. Effects of the Russian Revolution 424
XC. The Beginning of Russian Rehabilitation 428
XCII. The Capture of Halicz and Kalusz 436
XCIII. The Collapse of the Russian Offensive 440
XCIV. The Russian Rout in Galicia and the Bukowina 445
XCVI. Spring on the Austro-Italian Front 457
XCVII. The Italian Drive Against Trieste 462
XCVIII. The Height of the Italian Offensive 468
General Pershing Landing at Boulogne, France _Frontispiece_
Notice Posted in French Munitions Works 62
Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States 302
American Naval Gunners Fighting Submarines 350
A. F. Kerensky Addressing Russian Troops 430
Page Battle Lines on All Fronts, August 1, 1917 (_Colored Map_) _Front Insert_
Allies' Gain at the Somme, up to February, 1917 66
New German Submarine War Zone of February 1, 1917 207
The Entire Western Front, August 1, 1917 220
The German Retreat on the Western Front, March 18, 1917 233
Taking of Vimy Ridge by the Canadians, April 9 and 10, 1917 240
The French Offensive on the Craonne Plateau, Champagne 257
The Taking of Messines Ridge, June 7, 1917 266
The Somme Battle Front, August 1, 1917 283
The Russian Offensive and Retreat in Galicia 446
The Entire Eastern Battle Front, August 1, 1917 450
The first month of the Allied offensive on the Somme front closed quietly. The British and French forces had every reason to feel encouraged over their successes. In the two thrusts since July 1, 1916, they had won from the Germans nearly twenty-four square miles of territory. Considering the extent to which every fraction of a mile was fortified and defended, and the thoroughness of the German preparations to make the district impregnable, the Allied gains were important. As a British officer said at the time, it was like digging badgers out of holes--with the proviso that every badger had machine guns and rifles at the hole's mouth, while the approach to each was swept by the fire from a dozen neighboring earthworks.