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Now you can study The First World War from first-hand perspective. This essential eBook includes 48 primary source accounts from 1914 to 1916. No source is better than the original. It is untainted and tells the history as it happened.
The content in this eBook is included in our colossal "First-hand History of America" collection with over 1,200 primary source accounts.
*Includes 48 Accounts:
Autograph Letter of Franz Joseph to the Kaiser – Franz Joseph
The Willy-Nicky Telegrams – Exchanged Between the Kaiser and the Czar and Others
German Dispatches and the Kaiser's Notes – William II
The Grand Fleet Goes to Sea – Winston Churchill
The Kaiser's Version – William II of Germany
German Admission of Responsibility – Prince Lichnowsky
Delivery of the German Ultimatum to Belgium – Alfred de Bassompierre
The German Ultimatum and the Belgian Reply – The German and Belgian Governments
The Cruise and Destruction of the "Emden" – Hellmuth von Mucke
The "Scrap of Paper" – Sir Edward Goschen
A German Defense of Belgium – William Muehlon
Clemenceau Calls France to Arms – Georges Benjamin Eugene Clemenceau
England on the Brink of War – Sir Edward Grey
King Albert Goes to Parliament – Brand Whitlock
King Albert's Speech to Parliament – King Albert
The Fall of Liege – General Leman
Japan Joins the Allies – The Japanese Government
The Germans Enter Brussels – Richard Harding Davis
Mons—The First British Battle – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Burning of Louvain – Richard Harding Davis
Sea Fighting Off Heligoland – Sir David Beatty
From the Frontiers to the Marne – Joseph Joffre
The Abandonment of Paris – Official Proclamations
How the "Taxicab Army" Saved Paris – General Clergerie
Where Von Kluck Failed – Louis Madelin
General Joffre's Proclamation to Maunoury's Army – General Clergerie
The Marne – Louis Madelin
Trench Warfare Begins on the Aisne – Edward D. Swinton
The First Submarine Blow is Struck – Otto Weddigen
Antwerp Capitulates – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The First Battle of Ypres – John Buchan
The Sea Fight Off Coronel, Chile – Graf von Spee
The Battle of the Falklands – F. C. Sturdee
Roosevelt Anxiously Warns England – Theodore Roosevelt
The Battle of Dogger Bank – Described by two British Man-of-War's Men and a German Survivor
"Strict Accountability" – Woodrow Wilson
The Capture of Przemysl – Bernard Pares
The Battle of Neuve Chapelle – Count Charles de Souza
The "Lusitania" Sinking – Accounts by an American Survivor and the German U-Boat Commander
Russians Hurled Back on the Dunajec – Bernard Pares
Italy Joins the Allies – Antonio Salandra
President Wilson Protests to Germany – Woodrow Wilson
Britain Fails at Gallipoli – Lord Kitchener
The Execution of Edith Cavell – Rev. H. Stirling Gahan
War with Mexico is Threatened – Robert Lansing
"They Shall Not Pass" at Verdun – Lord Northcliffe
American Intervention Proposed in 1916 – Sir Edward Grey