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This archive of primary documents from World War One has been assembled by volunteers of the World War I Military History List (WWI-L). International in focus, the archive intends to present in one location primary documents concerning the Great War.


This site is linked from

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History,
from AmDocs: Documents for the Study of American History,
and from the Documents Room of Carrie: A Full-Text Electronic Library

For citing documents from this archive, here is an example of

MLA documentation style for citing sources from the World Wide Web.


  Conventions and Treaties and Official Papers


  Documents by Year:
Pre-1914   -   1914   -   1915   -   1916   -   1917   -   1918   -   Post-1918


  Diaries, Memorials, Personal Reminiscences


  Books, Special Topics and Commentaries


  WWI Biographical Dictionary


  WWI Resource Center & Image Archive
(See also "Visual Arts" in the IX. Links to Other WWI Sites (below)


  The Maritime War


  The Medical Front


  Links to Other WWI Sites




The World War I Document Archive has resided on the server of the Brigham Young University Library since February 1996.
To the wiki statistics found here should be added approximately 15 million pre-wiki website visits (1996-2006).

Find out more about this global community of WWI historians, students & enthusiasts.

This site uses the GreatWarDocsBot for site maintenance.

Comments, corrections and suggestions are welcome:

Richard Hacken (hacken @ byu.edu)

Thanks for artistic design to:

Alan Albright and Micheal Shackelford

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