Identifier: peopleswarbookhi00mill (find matches)
Title: The people's war book; history, cyclopaedia and chronology of the great world war
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, J. Martin (James Martin), b. 1859 Canfield, Harry S. (from old catalog), joint author Plewman, William Rothwell, 1880- (from old catalog) Foch, Ferdinand, 1851-1929 Lloyd George, David, 1863-1945 United States. President (1913-1921 : Wilson)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Cleveland, O., The R.C. Barnum co. Detroit, Mich., The F.B. Dickerson co. (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Royal Family of Germany. William II, Ex-Emperor of Germany and Ex-King of Prussia, married the Ex-Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Austenburg. He has six sons and one daughter. The Ex-Crown Prince Frederick William, married the Ex-Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Ex-Emperors sister, Sophia is the wife of Constantine, Ex-King of the Hellenes. Ex-Prince Henry, his brother, married his cousin. Ex-Princess Irene of Hesse, daughter of the late Ex-Princess Alice of England. The Ex-Emperors mother was Princess Victoria of England, daughter of Queen Victoria. 32 THE PEOPLES AVAR BOOK
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The Italian Royal Family. Germany and Austria knew that an attack on Serbia would draw in Russia; that Russia in, France must, perforce, follow. Russias interest in Serbia was based on kinship in blood and sympathies. Russia had on several occasions thrown the weight of her support to Serbia against the Turks. Russias friendship for the little kingdom of the Balkans was based above all else upon the doctrine of Pan-Slavism. Even in the German White Book, issued after the outbreak of the war in the attempt to absolve Prussia from the onus of having plotted and begun the war, was it admitted that diplomats understood that the warlike attitude of Austria toward Serbia was sure to involve the great empire of the north. To the rest of the world, or to the people at least, the assassination of the royal pair at Sarajevo was a happening of some news importance, but that was all. Except possibly in official France and Russia, it did not loom as a causus belli. The assassination was discussed in the d

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