Identifier: thegreatwar04alle (find matches)
Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Cettinje, capital of Montenegro. Ike square building in the center is the palace oj the king.
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The German invasion of Serbia. Both the retreating Serbians and the in-vading Germansivere greatly hampered by the -uery bad condition of the roads. The Welter in the Balkans 181 lashed by the icy blasts of winter. Dazed with hungerthe hopeless column stumbled on, shut off from the pros-pect of everything except its own deplorable situation.Thousands fell by the roadside, overcome by famine andexhaustion. The presence of the aged, of women, and ofyoung children made the spectacle more terrifying than theproverbial retreat from Moscow. The route was strewnwith half sunken motors, carts, and wagons, dead horses andoxen, abandoned implements and weapons, the wreckage ofa nation. But the lugubrious picture was illuminated byheroic touches, the stern endurance and unflinching spiritof the Serbian people unconquerable in death. The irruption of the Bulgarians through the passestowards the south necessitated a change in the directionof the retreat. Near Pristina two opposite streams of fugi-

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