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World War I

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Contents

• World War I
• The Path to War
  • Ottoman Empire: Weakness
  • The Balkans: Conflict
  • Austria Hungary
  • German Arms Race
  • The Alliance System
• The War
  • Diplomatic History
  • Military History
  • Personal Accounts
• Resistence to War
• Literary Responses
• The Aftermath

• WEB World War I: Trenches on the Web. It is best to start at the Library Page [At worldwar1.com]
  Covers many aspects of the war, with efforts at interactive presentation.
• WEB WWI Sites - Links to Resources [At BYU]
• WEB The World War I Document Archive [At BYU]
  has hundreds of documents.
• WEB Documents of World War I, [At Mt. Holyoke]
• WEB Balkan History Documents, 1456-1997 [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Hague Conventions, [At Yale]

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The Path to War

• WEB Steven W. Sowards:Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History [At MSU]
  In depth coverage of Balkan history from 1804 until today. Especially useful in reference to the 19th century background of empires and nationalisms.
• Ottoman Empire: Weakness
  • Sir William Eton: A Survey of the Turkish Empire, 1799 [At This Site]
  • Demetra Vaka: Aïshé Hanoum, c. 1888 [At this Site]
    Life of a Turkish woman.
  • Colonel L. du Couret: Justice in Arabia, c. 1890 [At this Site]
  • Julia Pardoe: The Dancing Dervishes, 1902 [At this Site]
  • Dr. Cyrus Hamlin: Turkish Bread, 1907 [At this Site]
  • The Young Turks: Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire, 1908 [At this Site]
• The Balkans: Conflict
  • Old Serbian Tales: Marko and the Turks, c. 1450 [At this Site]
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson: Montenegro [At this Site]
  • The Eastern Crisis of 1875-78 [At H-Net]
  • The South Slavs Before World War One: Documents [At H-Net]
  • The Treaty of Berlin, Excerpts on the Balkans, 1878 [At this Site]
  • Arthur D. Howden-Smith: An Attack on the Bashi-Bazouks, Macedonia, 1907 [At this Site]
  • Bernard Grant: The Flight of the Turks from Lule-Burgas, 1912 [At this Site]
  • Philip Gibbs: The Siege of Adrianople, 1912 [At this Site]
  • Serbia: The Black Hand
• Austria Hungary
  • The Austrian Constitution, 1867 [At H-Net]
  • Count von Beust: Memoirs of the Ausgleich,1867 [At this Site]
  • The Hungaro-Croatian Compromise of 1868 (The Nagodba) [At H-Net]
  • Mark Twain: Stirring Times in Austria, 1898 [At H-Net]
• German Arms Race
• The Alliance System
  • The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany, October 7, 1879  [At Yale]
  • The Three Emperors League, June 18, 1881
  • The Anglo-Russian Entente, 1907  [At Yale][Added 7/21/98]

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The War

• Diplomatic History
  • Zimmerman Telegram [At National Archives]
  • Telegram from the American Consulater in Sweden to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 17, 1917 [At Hanover]
  • Telegram from the American Consulate in Petrograd to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917 [At Hanover]
  • Telegram from the American Consulate in Moscow to the U.S. Secretary of State, March 20, 1917 [At Hanover]
  • United States: Espionage Act 1918  [At AMDocs]
  • United States: The Espionage Act, May 16, 1918 [At this Site]
• Military History
  • Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron] (1892-1918): Air Warfare [At this Site]
• Personal Accounts
  • Private Donald Fraser: War Diary, September 1915 [At this Site]
    Fraser, a member of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, recounts his experiences on the battle field.
  • Fritz Kreisler: Four Weeks in the Trenches, 1915 [At H-Net]
  • Siegfried Sassoon: Attack [At this Site]

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Resistence to War

• Rosa Luxemburg: "The War and the Workers": The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At H-Net]
• Rosa Luxemburg: "The War and the Workers"-- The Junius Pamphlet, 1916 [At this Site]
• Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916 [readable image file of poster][At this Site]
• Henry W. Massingham: Ireland, 1916--And Beyond, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1916 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]

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Literary Responses

• World War I Poetry, Poems by Siegfried Sasson, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, and others [At this Site]
• Rupert Brooke: War Sonnets [At this Site]
• Siegfried Sassoon: Poems [At Bartleby]
• John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Field, 1915 [At WSU]
• John McCrae (1872-1918): In Flanders Fields 1915 [At this Site]
• Helena Coleman: Marching Men: War Verses, 1917 [At U Penn]
• Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est, 1918 [At War Poetry]
• Vera Brittain: Testament of Youth, excerpts [At Virginia]
• Henri Barbusse (1874-1935): Under Fire: The Story of a Squad, 1916, full text [At ibiblio]
• John Dos Passos: One Man's Initiation: 1917: A Novel, 1920 full text [At ibiblio]
• Georges Duhamel (Denis Thévenin, 1884-1966): Civilization 1914-1917, translated by E. S. Brooks [At ibiblio]
• Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front, excerpts [At Internet Archive, from Clinch Valley College], or here [At Internet Archive, from CCNY] 

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The Aftermath

• The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 [At Yale]
• Tomas Masaryk: Independent Bohemia, 1915 [At H-Net]
• Woodrow Wilson: The Fourteen Points, Jan 8,1918, excerpts [At this Site] and here [At Yale]
• The Versailles Treaty, 1919, excerpts [At this Site]
• The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Yale]
• WEB Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919 [At Sandiego]
  Full text, with many accompanying maps and cartoons.

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