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There is an incredible full-page photo of the great British Cunard liner Lusitania leaving New York (see photo below), which sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine and took 1150 non-combatant lives (114 of them American), an act which outraged American citizens and eventually helped to draw the United States into the war. You will also find troop formations, units, and battalions from various countries in a variety of locations during the war great ships such as the Sydney (Australian), the Emden (Germany), the Bulwark (England), and many, many more. Throngs of villagers fleeing the horrors of war, pulling everything they own in horse-drawn carts through the streets many young soldiers laying dead in the fields or trenches, their final supreme act of allegiance to their homeland forever preserved on film the weaponry of various countries. The remainder of the book's pages contain some of the most compelling and riveting photographs of World War I to ever have been taken. These first pages also include several of the war's great military leaders: Supreme Commander of the French Army General Joffre Commander in Chief of the British Home Fleet Admiral Jellico German Field Marshal Von Hindenberg Bavarian General Prince Leopold and many more. These include great leaders of many countries involved in the war: Czar of Russia Nicholas II England's King George V President Raymond Poincaré of France German Emperor and King of Prussia Wilhelm II Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary Franz Josef I, and many more. Pages 5 through 15 showcase the war's most important individuals.
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