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Title: Kelly Miller's history of the world war for human right; being an intensely human and brilliant account of the world war and why and for what purpose America and the allies are fighting and the important part taken by the Negro, including the horrors and wonders of modern warfare, the new and strange devices, etc. ..
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Kelly, 1863-1939
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Washington, D.C., Chicago, Ill., Austin Jenkins co
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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CHAPTER I. Introductory. Civilization at Issue--The German Empire—Character of William II—TheGreat Conspiracy—The War by Years—United States in the War—TwoHundred Fifty Miles of Battle—Tee Downfall of Turkey—The Demo-cratic Close of the War. HE World War, terminated by the signing of the more far-reaching changes than any war known tohistory, and is destined to so profoundly influence civili-zation that we see in it the beginning of a new age. Some-what similar wars in the past were the campaigns of Alex-ander; the wars that overthrew the Roman Empire andthe Napoleonic wars of a previous century; but this onewar surpasses them all, measured by any scale that canbe applied to military operations. It was truly a WorldWar, thus in a class by itself. Beginning in CentralEurope, twenty-eight natiops—nearly all of the importantnations of the world—with a total population of about1,600,000,000—or eleven-twelfths of the human race-became involved. It cost 10,000,000 human

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