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Various Warring Countries

• "Das Regenbogen-Buch"; deutsches Weissbuch, österreichisch-ungarisches Rotbuch, englisches Blaubuch, französisches Gelbbuch, russisches Orangebuch, serbisches Blaubuch und belgisches Graubuch: die europäischen Kriegsverhandlungen

"The Rainbow Book:" German White Book, Austro-Hungarian Red Book, English Blue Book, French Yellow Book, Russian Orange Book, Serbian Blue Book and Belgian Grey Book: The Negotiations Leading to War.

Ed. Max Beer (Bern: Wyss, 1915)

A chronological combination of significant documents from the diplomatic archives of the various belligerent countries.

(29 June - 4 September 1914; facsimile of 2nd edition)

• Official Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War, with Photographic Reproductions of Official Editions of the Documents (Blue, White, Yellow, etc., books)

Ed. Edmund von Mach; published in New York: Macmillan, 1916.

(1914; facsimiles)

• Collected Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War

Published in London: H.M.S.O., 1915.

(1914, facsimiles)

• Official Communications and Speeches Relating to Peace Proposals 1916-1917

Published in Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917

(December 1916 - February 1917; print facsimile of English document translations)

Armenia

Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia

by Maj. General James G. Harbord

(Senate Document No. 266, 66th Congress, 2d Session.)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920.

• Viscount Bryce, The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

1915 - 1916

Austria-Hungary

• The Dual Alliance Between Austria-Hungary and Germany

7 October 1879

• The Triple Alliance (The French Original)

20 May 1882

(Eight articles in the original French)

See also expanded version of 1912

• The Triple Alliance (The English Tranlation)

20 May 1882

(English translation of the above)

See also expanded version of 1912 (In English)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance (In French)

5 December 1912

(Fifteen articles in the original French)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(English translation of the above)

• Austro-Hungarian / Romanian Accord

5 February 1913

(Original French)

• Die Österreichisch-Ungarischen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch
  Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War

Sub-title: Diplomatische Aktenstücke zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges 1914 (Diplomatic Documents on the Prehistory of the 1914 War)

2 July 1914 - 27 August 1914 (German and French originals in full-text searchable transcriptions)

Erster Teil - 28. Juni bis 23. Juli 1914

Zweiter Teil - 24. Juli bis 28. Juli 1914

Dritter Teil - 29. Juli bis 27. August 1914

• Die Österreichisch-Ungarischen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch
  Austro-Hungarian Documents on the Outbreak of War

Sub-title: Diplomatische Aktenstücke zur Vorgeschichte des Krieges 1914 (Diplomatic Documents on the Prehistory of the 1914 War)

2 July 1914 - 27 August 1914 (German and French originals in print-format transcriptions)

• The Austro-Hungarian Red Book (Print facsimile of the official English translation)
• The Austro-Hungarian Red Book (Transcriptions from the official English translation)

1914 - 1915

• The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia (The German original)

23 July 1914

• The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia (English translation)

23 July 1914

• The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum (French original)

25 July 1914

• The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum (English Translation)

25 July 1914

• The Austro-Hungarian Declaration of War on Serbia

28 July 1914

• Diplomatische Aktenstücke betreffend die Beziehungen Österreich-Ungarns zu Italien in der Zeit vom 20. Juli 1914 bis 23. Mai 1915

("Diplomatic Correspondence on the Relations of Austria-Hungary to Italy from 20 July 1914 to 23 May 1915")

(20 July 1914 - 23 May, 1915; facsimiles of correspondence in German and French)

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

• US Peace Treaty with Austria

24 August 1921

Belgium

• Treaties and Documents Relative to the Neutrality of the Netherlands and Belgium

1839-1914

Taken from an appendix to Alexander Fuehr's The Neutrality of Belgium (1915)

• The Belgian Grey Book: Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting the War (Print facsimile of official English translation)

Published by the Belgian government, 1914.

• The Belgian Grey Book: Diplomatic Correspondence Respecting the War (Transcriptions of the official English translation)

24 July - 29 August 1914

• The German Request for Free Passage Through Belgium

2 August 1914

• The Belgian Refusal of Free Passage

3 August 1914

• The Second Belgian Grey Book (Print facsimile of the official English translation)

1915

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

Bulgaria




• Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians

6 October 1915 (Russian original)

• Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians

6 October 1915 (English translation)

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

England

• See: Great Britain.

France

• The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention

18 August 1892

• The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France

8 April 1904

• The French Yellow Book: The European War (Print facsimile of official English translation)

Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1914

• The French Yellow Book (transcription of official English translation)

1913 - 1914

• The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace

4 September 1914

• Sykes-Picot Agreement

15 - 16 May 1916

• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

May - June 1918

• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

5 November 1918

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

Germany

• The Triple Alliance (The French Original)

20 May 1882

(Eight articles in the original French)

See also expanded version of 1912

• The Triple Alliance (The English Tranlation)

20 May 1882

(English translation of the above)

See also expanded version of 1912 (In English)

• The Reinsurance Treaty

18 June 1887

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(Fifteen articles in the original French)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(English translation of the above)

• Die Deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch

(German Documents on the Outbreak of War)

13 June 1914 - 27 August 1914

"Herausgegeben im Auftrage des Auswärtigen Amtes"

Charlottenburg: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1919 - 1921

(German and French facsimiles in print)

5 volumes in 3:

Vol. 1

Vol. 2

Vol. 3

Vol. 4

Vol. 5 (commentary)

• Die Deutschen Dokumente zum Kriegsausbruch 1914 in 5 vols.

German Documents on the Outbreak of War.

Berlin: Im Auftrage des Auswärtigen Amts, 1921.

Full-text transcriptions of vols. 1-5

Under Construction

Volume 1

Volume 2

• The German White Book: How Russia and her Ruler Betrayed Germany's Confidence and Thereby Caused the European War (Print facsimile of official English translation)

Berlin: Liebheit & Thiesen, 1914

• The German White Book (Transcriptions of the official English translation)

1914

• Amtliche Kriegs-Depeschen nach Berichten des Wolff'schen Telegr.-Bureaus

Official German Telegrams from Wartime, 1914-1918.

In 8 volumes:

Vol. 1 - Vol. 2 - Vol. 3 - Vol. 4 - Vol. 5 - Vol. 6 - Vol. 7 - Vol. 8

• The German Declaration of War on Russia

1 August 1914

• The Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey

2 August 1914

• The German Request for Free Passage Through Belgium

2 August 1914

• The Belgian Refusal of Free Passage

3 August 1914

• Japanese Ultimatum to Germany

15 August 1914

• Full Text of the German "White Paper" On the War

published in the New York Times, 24 August 1914

• Wilson's First Warning to the Germans

10 February 1915

• The Reichstag Peace Resolution

19 July 1917

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II

28 November 28 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918




• Vorgeschichte des waffenstillstandes: Amtliche urkunden

Published by the German National Chancellery, Berlin, 1919

(August 14 1918 - November 11, 1918; print facsimile of German documents)




• Preliminary history of the armistice: official documents published by the German National Chancellery by order of the Ministry of State

Published in Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1924

(August 14 1918 - November 11, 1918; print facsimile of English document translations)

• US Peace Treaty with Germany

25 August 1921

• Erich Ludendorff, ed.,

Urkunden der obersten Heeresleitung über ihre Tätigkeit 1916-1918

2nd ed. (Berlin: Mittler, 1921).

Great Britain

• The Entente Cordiale Between The United Kingdom and France

8 April 1904

• The Anglo-Russian Entente

1907

• British Imperial Connexions to the Arab National Movement

1912-1914

• British Official Documents on the Origins of the War

Multi-volume set ed. by G. P. Gooch and Harold Temperley

Vol. I, The End of British Isolation: 1897 - 1903 (digitized by the State Library of Pennsylvania)

Vol. II, The Anglo-Japanese Alliance and the Franco-British Entente (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. III, The Testing of the Entente: 1904-1906 (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. IV, The Anglo-Russian Rapprochement: 1903-1907 (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. V, The Near East, the Macedonian Problem and the Annexation of Bosnia: 1903-1909 (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. VI, Anglo-German Tension: Armaments and Negotiation, 1907-1912 (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. VII, The Agadir Crisis (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. VIII, Arbitration, Neutrality and Security (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. IX/1, The Balkan Wars: The Prelude; the Tripoli War (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. IX/2, The Balkan Wars: The League and Turkey (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. X/1, The Near and Middle East on the Eve of War (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. X/2, The Last Years of Peace (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. XI, The Outbreak of War (Facsimile digitized by BYU for Internet Archive)

Vol. XI, 'The Outbreak of War: June 28 - August 4 1914 (HTML transcript version)

Major Resource!

• The British Blue Book: Great Britain and the European Crisis

London: HMSO, 1914

• The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace

4 September 1914

• The British Defense of the Realm Consolidation Act

1914

• Sykes-Picot Agreement

15 - 16 May 1916

• Viscount Bryce, The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

1915 - 1916

• The Balfour Declaration

2 November 1917

• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

May - June 1918

• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

5 November 1918

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

• Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

16 March 1921

• The Palestine Mandate of the League of Nations

24 July 1922

Greece

• The Greek White Book: Diplomatic Documents 1913-1917

Published for the American Hellenic Society by Oxford University Press American Branch, [1918].

• The Greek White Book: Supplementary Diplomatic Documents 1913-1917

Published for the American Hellenic Society by Oxford University Press American Branch, 1919.

Hungary

Post-World War I; See also: Austria-Hungary
• Treaty of Trianon

Signed 4 June 1920

• US Peace Treaty with Hungary

29 August 1921

Italy

• The Triple Alliance (The French Original)

20 May 1882

(Eight articles in the original French)

See also expanded version of 1912

• The Triple Alliance (The English Tranlation)

20 May 1882

(English translation of the above)

See also expanded version of 1912 (In English)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(Fifteen articles in the original French)

• Amended Version of The Triple Alliance

5 December 1912

(English translation of the above)

• The Italian Declaration of Neutrality

3 August 1914

• Diplomatische Aktenstücke betreffend die Beziehungen Österreich-Ungarns zu Italien in der Zeit vom 20. Juli 1914 bis 23. Mai 1915

("Diplomatic Correspondence on the Relations of Austria-Hungary to Italy from 20 July 1914 to 23 May 1915")

(20 July 1914 - 23 May, 1915; facsimiles of correspondence in German and French)

• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

May - June 1918

• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

5 November 1918

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

Japan

• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War

1905

• Japanese Ultimatum to Germany

15 August 1914

Luxembourg

• The Treaty of London (1867)

21 June 1867

Granting neutrality to Luxembourg (French translation)

• Luxembourg Railways Intelligence Report

24 September 1911

• The German Occupation of Luxembourg

1914-1918

(Original French- and German-language dispatches)

Romania

• Austro-Hungarian / Rumanian Accord

5 February 1913

(Original French)

Russia

• The Three Emperors' League

18 June 1881

• The Reinsurance Treaty

18 June 1887

• The Franco-Russian Alliance Military Convention

18 August 1892

• Treaty of Portsmouth ending the Russo-Japanese War

1905

• The Anglo-Russian Entente

1907

• Russian Orange Book: Documents Respecting the Negotiations Preceding the War (Print facsimile of the official English translation)

Published by the Russian government, 1914.

• The Russian Orange Book (transcriptions of the official English translation)

1914

• The German Declaration of War on Russia

1 August 1914

• The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace

4 September 1914

• Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians

6 October 1915

(Russian original)

• Tsar Nicholas' Declaration Against the Bulgarians

6 October 1915

(English translation)

• The Abdication of Nicholas II

15 March 1917

(Russian facsimile and transcription)

• The Abdication of Nicholas II

15 March 1917

(English translation)

• Soviet Documents on Foreign Policy

21 November 1917 - 2 September 1918

(English translation)

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

• The Post-War Soviet / U.S. Agreement on Food Shipments to Russia

19 October 1920

• Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement

16 March 1921

Serbia

• The Serbian Blue Book (Print facsimiles of official English translation)

1914

• The Serbian Blue Book (Transcriptions of official English translation)

1914

• The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia

23 July 1914

(German original)

• The Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum to Serbia

23 July 1914

(English translation)

• The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum

25 July 1914

(French original)

• The Serbian Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum (English Translation)

25 July 1914

(English translation)

• The Austro-Hungarian Declaration of War on Serbia

28 July 1914

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

Turkey

Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia

by Maj. General James G. Harbord

(Senate Document No. 266, 66th Congress, 2d Session.)

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920.

• The Treaty of Alliance Between Germany and Turkey

2 August 1914

• Viscount Bryce, The Treatment of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire

1915 - 1916

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918




United States of America

• President Wilson's Declaration of Neutrality

19 August 1914

• The US Statement on the Status of Armed Merchant Vessels

19 September 1914

• Wilson's First Warning to the Germans

10 February 1915

• Wilson's War Message to Congress

2 April 1917

• President Wilson's Fourteen Points

8 January 1918

• The U.S. Sedition Act

16 May 1918

• The Allied Appeal for Rapid American Assistance

May - June 1918

• The Allies' Conditional Acceptance of the Fourteen Points

5 November 1918

• The Allies' Armistice Demands

10 November 1918

• Conditions of an Armistice with Germany

11 November 1918

• Report on War Guilt by the Commission On the Responsibility of the Authors of the War

1918

• The King-Crane Report

28 August 1919

• The Post-War Soviet / U.S. Agreement on Food Shipments to Russia

19 October, 1920

• US Peace Treaty with Austria

24 August 1921

• US Peace Treaty with Germany

25 August 1921

• US Peace Treaty with Hungary

29 August 1921

• Nye Commission Report

Special Committe on Investigation of the Munitions Industry (Findings)

24 February 1936.

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