SURRENDER OF THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET

Actual photograph showing the greatest naval surrender in history. Above, The German fleet arriving to surrender. Below, The commanders of the British and American battle-fleets, Admirals Beatty and Rodman, the King of England, the Prince of Wales and Admiral Sims viewing the surrender.

COMPLETE EDITION

HISTORY OF THE
WORLD WAR

An Authentic Narrative of
The World's Greatest War

BY FRANCIS A. MARCH, Ph.D.
In Collaboration with
RICHARD J. BEAMISH
Special War Correspondent
and Military Analyst

With an Introduction

BY GENERAL PEYTON C. MARCH
Chief of Staff of the United States Army

With Exclusive Photographs by

JAMES H. HARE and DONALD THOMPSON
World-Famed War Photographers

and with Reproductions from the Official Photo-
graphs of the United States, Canadian, British,
French and Italian Governments

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CONTENTS

VOLUME VI

CHAPTER I. THE PIRATES OF THE UNDER-

SEAS

Germany's Ruthless Submarine Policy-A Boomerang

Destroying the Hand that Cast It-Terrorism that Failed

-One Hundred and Fifty U-Boats Sunk or Captured-

Shameless Surrender of the German Submarines and of the

Fleet They Protected

CHAPTER II. APPROACHING THE FINAL

STAGE

Cutting the Railroads to Cambrai-Americans Co-operate

with British in Furious Attack-Douai and St. Quentin

Taken The Battle Line Straightened for the Last Mighty

Assault-All Hope Abandoned by the Kaiser.

CHAPTER III. LAST DAYS OF THE WAR

American Troops Join with the Allies in Colossal Drive on

Seventy-one-Mile Front-Historic Sedan Taken by the

Yanks-Stenay, the Last Battle of the War-How the

Opposing Forces Greeted the News of the Armistice

CHAPTER IV. THE DRASTIC TERMS OF

SURRENDER

Handcuffs for Four Nations-Bulgaria First to Fly the

White Flag-Allenby's Great Victory Forces Turkey Out-

Austria Signs Quickly-Germany's Capitulation Complete

and Humiliating.

CHAPTER V. PEACE AT Last

An Unfounded Rumor Starts Enormous Jubilation-

Armistice Signed Four Days Later-Kaiser Abdicates and

Flees to Holland-Cowardly Ruler Seeks Protection of

Small Neutral Nation-Looking Into the Future-Cost of

War to the Nations-Liberty Loans-Reconstruction

Problems-McAdoo Resigns-American Ideals in the Old