The  Nations at War
Subtitle: A Current History
By: by Willis J. Abbot ... assisted by a staff of photographers, foreign agents, and writers of authority on international relations, military and naval tactics, history, armament, geography, topography, languages, ethnology, food supply, and all the other phases of the world's greatest wars illustrated with many plates in full color, photographs from private sources, maps, charts, and diagrams.
Publisher: R54Syndicate Publishing Company
Published: 1914
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Description: * This edition has 366 numbered pages, other versions seem to have less pages. It has no location for the publisher on its title page, instead it has these words striked out by lauel leaves and also has an image of the painting "Napoleon's Cuirassiers at Waterloo" by Stanley Berkely, on the opposite side of the title page. On page 35 there is an image of "The Defense of the Longboyeau Gate" by A. de Neuville. 36 has two black and white pictures (Picture of bridge with man pushing cart and women following walking towards camera) above and ("French cavalry on the march through Ay.) below the text which starts as 'lization, the cafes'... Pages 298 and 299, have lower cityscapes with cutout images around their roofs. This is also done on pictures for 312, 313, and 314 with the sky edited out.

** This publisher also has another alternate 360 page edition also dated 1914 book. It has the publishers listed as being in "New York and London", and says "Issued in Parts", on the title page. With an image of the painting "The Assassination of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and His Wife in Sarajevo" by J. B. Hazelton, on the opposite side of the title page. On page 35 there is an photograph title "A Body of French Dragoons Mounted, According to Military Traditions, on Horses of One Color". 36 has two black and white pictures (Picture of "Transporting horses of the German Army across a river in Bavaria") above and ("French cavalry on the march through Ay.) below the text which starts as 'of, the Socialists that'... Pages 298 and 299, have lower cityscapes with square cutout images with chunks of sky around their roofs. This is also done on pictures for pages 312, 313, 314 with the same chunks of sky around the edges of the pictures.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: i; label: The Nations at War: Part One
title: 3; label: Reccessional by Rudyard Kipling
title: 37; label: The Nations at War: Chapter II: Why Belgian Neutrality was Violated - The System of German Mobilization - Equipment of the German Armies - The Fronts at Liège - The Battle of Haelen - Destruction of Louvain - Irresistible Advance of the German Armies
title: 39; label: War and Death by Helen Coale Crew
title: 73; title: Chapter III: The German Dash Upon Paris — Position Of The Armies — Power; label: of German Field Artillery — Singular Inaction of the French — Features of the Invasion — Sketches of the Allied Generals — Battle of Mons — The Germans at the Gate of Paris
title: 75; label: The Reckoning by Clinton Scollard
title: 109; label: Chapter IV: The War in the East — Swift Mobilization of Russia — Invasion of Eastern Prussia — The Czar's Generals — Concessions to the Jews and Poles the Invasion of Galicia
title: 111; label: The Submarine by Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons, Jr.
title: 145; title: Chapter V: The War in Sea and Sky — British Supremacy upon the Ocean -; label: The New Rivalry of Germany — Prolonged Inactivity of Both Fleets — Loss of the "Amphion" — Battle Off Heligoland — German Submarine Sinks Three Cruisers — Work of the Commerce Destroyers, "Emden" and "Karlsruhe" — Navies of the Air — Development of the Aeroplanes — The Halt of the Zeppelins
title: 147; label: The Army of the Dead by Barry Pain
title: 181; title: Chapter VI: The Check on Sedan Day — The French Deliver Their Counter Stroke — Von Kluck's Army Endangered — The Battlefield Near Meaux — Battle of the Marne — Fighting all Along the Line — The German Retreat to the Aisne; label: The Call to the Colors by Sara Beaumont Kennedy
title: 217; label: Chapter VII: Battle of the Aisne — The General Plan of Battle — Positions of the Armies — Imenace to the German Right — Experiences of Eye Witnesses — Bombardment of Rheims
title: 219; label: Summer in England, 1914 by Alice Meynell
title: 253; label: Chapter VIII: The Siege Of Antwerp - Importance of the City - British Relief Expedition - Futility of the Defense - The Bombardment Sufferings of the Fugitives - Germans Press on to the Channel
title: 255; label: The Peace-Pact by Edith M. Thomas
title: 289; label: Chapter IX: The Savage Fighting in Flanders — Why the Germans Dashed for the Coast — The Menace to England — The French in Alsace — The Fighting in Poland, Cracow, and Warsaw
title: 291; label: The Little People by Charles Hanson Towne
title: 325; label: Chapter X: The Winter Months in Poland — The War by Sea — Losses of Bullwark, Audacious, And Formidable — The Battle at the Falklands — Battle in the North Sea — The Worldwide War — Estimates of Losses
title: 327; label: Chronology of the Second Six Months of the War
title: 361; label: Western and Eastern Battle Lines After a Year of War
title: 362; label: Italy Enters the War
title: 363; label: The "Terrible Turk" and Where He is Fighting
title: 366