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A collection of texts associated with World War I (1914-1918).

A montage of black and white photography from World War I. Clockwise from top: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark V Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks; and German Albatros D.III biplanes — World War I

Diplomatic History

Anglo-French Declaration
An Appeal to the Russian Soviet, by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1917)
Decree of recognition of the Czechoslovak Army in France (16 December 1917)
Declaration of the Bohemian Foreign Committee
Declaration of Independence of the Czechoslovak Nation by Its Provisional Government
The Economic Consequences of the Peace, by John Maynard Keynes
The Guilt of William Hohenzollern, by Karl Kautsky
Harold Nicolson's observations on the signing of Treaty of the Versailles
The Myth of a Guilty Nation
Official communications and speeches relating to peace proposals 1916–1917
Twenty-One Demands
Zimmermann Telegram (1917), request for Mexico to declare war on the United States

Treaties that provoked WWI

Declarations of War

United States of America

Woodrow Wilson Urges Congress to Declare War on Germany (April 2, 1917), by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson
Formal U.S. Declaration of War with Germany (6 April 1917)

World War I treaties

Armistice between the Allied Governments and Germany
Armistice of Villa Giusti (1918)
"Treaties of Versailles and St. Germain," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
Locarno Pact
Sykes–Picot Agreement
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Ukraine–Central Powers) (February 1918)
Treaty of Bucharest (May 1918)
Treaty of Buftea (March 1918)
Treaty of Lausanne
Treaty of Neuilly
Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Treaty of Sèvres
Treaty of Trianon
Treaty of Versailles
US–Austria Peace Treaty
US–Germany Peace Treaty
US–Hungary Peace Treaty

Articles

Albania and Greece
"America and Germany's Allies" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (10) (1917)
"America and the Slav Immigrants" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (1) (1918)
"An Appeal to the Russian Soviet" by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The Bohemian Review, 2 (1) (1918)
"Austria: A Study in Confusion" by Vladimír Nosek in The New Europe, 4 (45) (23^rd August, 1917)
"Austria, Hungary and the Slavs" in The New Europe, 5 (62) (20^th December, 1917)
"Austria Infelix" by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The New Europe, 3 (29) (3^rd May, 1917)
"Austrian Slavs United" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
"Austria's Desperate Situation" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (5) (1918)
"Autonomy and Self-determination" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (2) (1918)
"Bohemian Socialists Demand Repeal of St. Louis Platform" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (3) (1918)
"Bohemians and the Allied Peace Terms" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (1) (1918)
"Bohemians Welcome War on Austria" by Jaroslav František Smetánka in The Bohemian Review, 1 (11–12) (1917)
"Bohemia's Demand for Independence" in The New Europe, 3 (34) (7^th June, 1917)
"Bring back the Kaiser's mustaches" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (4) (1917)
"Can Austria Be Saved?" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (7) (1917)
"Cannon Barry on the Austrian Problem" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (1) (1918)
"Carpathian Russians and the Czechoslovaks" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (5) (1918)
Columbia's Dismissed Professors
"Condemnation of Kramar" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (2) (1917)
"Congress of Rome" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (6) (1918)
"Count Czernin on Self-determination" by Ottokar Czernin in The New Europe, 5 (64) (3^rd January, 1918)
"Count Czernin: the New Emperor's New Foreign Minister" by Take Ionescu in The New Europe, 1 (11) (28^th December, 1916)
"Countries with Ideals" by Josef Křenek in The Bohemian Review, 1 (5) (1917)
"The Czech Heart" by Peter Kompiš in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (5) (1919)
"Czech Representatives Defy Austria" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (10) (1917)
"The Czechs and Austria" in The New Europe, 6 (70) (14^th February, 1918)
Death Comes to Mata Hari
"Dismemberment of Austria" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (1) (1917)
Father Gleeson and his Alter-Boy
"From Austrian Secret Archives" in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (3) (1919)
"From the Journal of the Reichsrat" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (7) (1917)
"German Plots Against Czechoslovakia" in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (5) (1919)
Germany and the Habsburg Problem by Edvard Beneš (July 1917, multiple editions)
"Gleanings from Czech Papers" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (8) (1918)
Harington Won't Demand Evacuation
How a Trench Raid V.C. was won
"How Austria Recruits Her Armies" by Vojta Beneš in The Bohemian Review, 1 (1) (1917)
"How the Austrian Slavs Helped the Italians" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
"How I Got Across" by Jan Šípek in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (10) (1919)
"How Two Czechs Died for their Country" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (9) (1918)
"Hunger is general in Austria" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (10) (1917)
In the Front Trenches
"In Sight of the Goal" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
"Italy, the Friend of Bohemia" by Jaroslav František Smetánka in The Bohemian Review, 1 (10) (1917)
"Kühlmann and Czernin as Converts" in The New Europe, 4 (52) (11^th October, 1917)
"Let Us Have Peace" in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (3) (1919)
"Liberalism in Hungary" by Gaza Henry Mika in The Bohemian Review, 1 (8) (1917)
"Masaryk's Peace Program" by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (3) (1919)
May We Knit on Sunday
The Munsters at Mons
"The National Assembly of Prague, April 13, 1918" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (6) (1918)
QST/December 1915/National Defense. Our Services Offered to Government
"Naturalization during the war" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (11–12) (1917)
"New Light on the Sarajevo Murders" by B. Novotný in The Bohemian Review, 1 (4, 5) (1917)
"New York papers speak plainly" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (4) (1917)
"News from Austria" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (3) (1918)
Night Raid by the Royal Munster Fusiliers
"The Opening of the Austrian Reichsrat" in The New Europe, 3 (34) (7^th June, 1917)
"The Outposts of Liberty" by George Leonard Knapp in The Bohemian Review, 2 (6) (1918)
Pangermanism and the Eastern Question by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The New Europe, vol. I, No. 1
Pangermanism and the Zone of Small Nations by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The New Europe, vol. I, No. 9
"Permanent Peace and Austria-Hungary" by Charles Pergler in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)
"Poles, Czechs and Jugoslavs" in The New Europe, 3 (34) (7^th June, 1917)
"Police Rule in Bohemia" by Daniel Thomas Curtin in The Bohemian Review, 1 (7) (1917)
"The Prague National Council" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (9) (1918)
"Premier Seidler on the Declaration on Jan. 6, 1918" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (3) (1918)
"President Wilson's "must" and "should"" by Alexander Falconer Giles in The New Europe, 6 (69) (17^th February, 1918)
"Press comment on Czechoslovak recognition" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (9) (1918)
"Progress of Rebellion in Bohemia" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (6) (1918)
"Racial Demands in the Reichsrat" in The New Europe, 3 (36) (21^st June, 1917)
"Rare Letter from Bohemia" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (6) (1917)
The Resiliency of Mr. Atkins
"Recognition of the Provisional Government" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (7) (1918)
Russia and secret treaties: terms published, The Manchester Guardian p. 5 (November 26, 1917)
"The Secret of Czechoslovak Success" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (8) (1918)
"Separate Pacifists" by Ronald Montagu Burrows in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)
"Singing Austria's Swan-Song" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (4) (1917)
"The Situation in Hungary" by Jozef Žák-Marušiak in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
"Sokols to fight for America" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (2) (1917)
The State (1918), by Bourne
"Sub specie æternitatis" by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk in The New Europe, 1 (10) (21^st December, 1916)
"Teuton Disregard for Rights and Honor" by Emil F. Prantner in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
Towards a New Central Europe by Vladimír Nosek (1918)
"Trotski and Czernin" in The New Europe, 6 (70) (14^th February, 1918)
"Two Memorable Speeches" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (7) (1917)
"Unrest in Bohemia" by Vladimír Nosek in The New Europe, 7 (86) (6^th June, 1918)
Vae Victis!
"Vain Dreams of Federalized Austria" by Jaroslav František Smetánka in The Bohemian Review, 1 (11–12) (1917)
"Vienna Court During the War" by Jan Hajšman in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (7) (1919)
QST/January 1916/A Volunteer Radio Corps
War Has Its Compensations
"What the Czechs in America Feel" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (10) (1918)
What they Think in the Trenches
"Where We Stand To-day" by Charles Pergler in The Bohemian Review, 1 (2) (1917)
Whose War? (1917), by John Reed
"Why Germany Wants Peace Now" in The Bohemian Review, 1 (1) (1917)
Why I joined the Army
"Will there be a Revolution in Austria?" in The Bohemian Review, 2 (7) (1918)
"The Work of Our Women" by Libuše Moták in The Czechoslovak Review, 3 (3) (1919)

Journalism

"Austrian Emperor to Take Command at Vienna Headquarters" in The New York Times (July 29, 1914)
"Shooting at Jupiter" (January 1916), headline about France mistakenly shooting anti-aircraft guns at the light of the planet Jupiter, from Popular Science Monthly
"The Lusitania Anniversary" in The New York Tribune (May 7, 1916)
"Bohemia–the submerged front" in The North American Review, 206 (January 1917), pp. 426–435
"London Attacked Again by Airmen" in The New York Times (September 26, 1917)

Fiction

Air Service Boys (1918–1920), by Charles Amory Beach
The Enormous Room (1922), by E. E. Cummings
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1919), by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, translated by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
The Guns of Europe (1915), by Joseph Alexander Altsheler
The Lieutenant and Others (1915), by Herman Cyril McNeile
Mufti (1919), by Herman Cyril McNeile
The Zeppelin Destroyer (1916), by William Le Queux

Memoirs and journals

Diary of Trooper Theodore Christian Ernest Laugesen (1915–1916), by Theodore Christian Ernest Laugesen
My Experiences on Three Fronts (pre-1917), by Sister Martin-Nicholson
Diary of a Prisoner in World War I (2012), by Josef Šrámek, translated by Tomáš Svoboda

Correspondence

Letter from Reginald Oswald Pearson to Sydney Langford Jones (June 14, 1915)
Letter from Ralph Munday to his sister (November 17, 1915)
Theodore Laugesen to Carl Laugesen (February 17, 1916)
Eldred Letter - 1918 A (July 5, 1918)
Eldred Letter - 1918 B (July 23, 1918)

Speeches

Great Speeches of the War (1915), by various authors
"Bohemia's claim to independence" (February 25, 1916), by Charles Pergler
"The Bohemians (Czechs) In The Present Crisis" (May 28, 1916), by Charles Pergler
"No Compromise" (October, 1918), by Charles Pergler
"Democrats in the World War" (1919), by Alexander Mitchell Palmer

Open letters

"A Personal Letter to the Kaiser" (September 1, 1916), by Bruce Barton
"Appeal for National Service "(October 23, 1916), by Robert Borden
"Finished with the War: A Soldier’s Declaration" (1917), by Siegfried Sassoon
"What We Have to Contend With" by René Pichon in The Bohemian Review, 1 (9) (1917)
"Greeting to American Soldiers by the women of France" (July 4, 1918)

Military texts

The Diary of a French Private (pre-1917), by Gaston Riou IA
"Harold Nicolson's observations on the signing of Treaty of the Versailles" (1918), by Henry Nicholson
Heroic Story of the Czecho-Slovak Legions (1919) by Albert Beaumont

Military operations

The Lusitania's Last Voyage (1915), by Charles Emelius Lauriat
Fighting the Flying Circus (1919), by Eddie Rickenbacker
Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War (1919), by Reinhard Scheer
Military Operations, France and Belgium, 1914 (1937), by James Edward Edmonds
A Concise History of the U.S. Air Force (1997), by Stephen Lee McFarland
Maneuver and Firepower: The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades (1998), by John Banks Wilson
Portal:Bombing of the SS Cushing

Propaganda

"England, a Destroyer of Nations" (1915), by Rudolf Cronau
Bohemia's case for independence (1917), by Edvard Beneš
The voice of an oppressed people (c. 1917), by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Jaroslav František Smetánka
"The Case of Bohemia" (1917), by Lewis Bernstein Namier
"The Czecho-Slovaks" (1917), by Lewis Bernstein Namier
"Great Britain's New Allies-The Czecho-Slovaks" by Vladimír Nosek (1918)

Analytical works

Our Ultimate Aim in the War, pre-1917 by George G. Armstrong (Can only find one copy, a hard copy book in an Australian War Memorial)
The Deeper Causes of the War, pre-1917 by Emile Hovelaque (free ebook can be found Here)
Home Truths about the War, pre-1917 by Hugh B. Chapman (19 Hardcopies here)
The United States and the War, pre-1917 by Gilbert Vivian Selds
After-War Problems, pre-1917 by the late Earl of Cromer, Viscount Haldane, Bishop of Exeter, Alfred Marshall and others
Whose War? (1917), by John Reed
Germany's High Seas Fleet in the World War (1919), by Reinhard Scheer
Economic Development in Denmark Before and During the World War (1922), by Harald Westergaard
How the War Began (1914), by W. L. Courtney
The Fleets at War (1914), by Archibald Hurd
The Campaign of Sedan (1914), by George Hooper
In the Firing Line (1914), by A. St. John Adcock
The Campaign Round Liege (1914), by J. M. Kennedy
The Red Cross in War (1914), by M. F. Billington
Forty Years After (1914), by W. L. Courtney
A Scrap of Paper: The Inner History of German Diplomacy (1914), by E. J. Dillon
How the Nations Waged War (1914), by J. M. Kennedy
The Retreat to Paris (1914), by Roger Ingpen
The Kaiser's War (1914), by Austin Harrison
The Irish at the Front (1916), by Michael MacDonagh IA
At the Eleventh Hour (1916), by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
The New Europe (The Slav Standpoint) (1918), by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk
Democratic Ideals and Reality: A Study in the Politics of Reconstruction (1919), by Halford John Mackinder
Diplomacy and the War (1921), by Julius Andrassy
England After War: A Study (1923), by Charles F. G. Masterman
America in the Struggle for Czechoslovak Independence (1926), by Charles Pergler
The Destruction of Poland (1916), by Arnold Joseph Toynbee

Verse

See also: Portal:War poetry

War poets

See also: Portal:War poetry

See also: Some soldier poets

Songs and music

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