The First World War A Brief History with Documents

by Grayzel, Susan R.

• ISBN13: 9781319169220
• ISBN10: 1319169228
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2020-10-02
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

A brief but thorough collection, Susan Grayzel’s new revision of The First World War document reader allows students to experience this historical turning point through various sources from the period and the scholarship tied to them

Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

PART ONE

Introduction: The First World War and the Making of a Modern, Global Conflict

The Origins of the First World War

Living through the First World War

The War’s End and Aftermath

PART TWO

The Documents

1. The Origins of the First World War

1. The Treaty of Vienna (The Dual Alliance), 1879

2. The Hague Conventions, 1907

3. Bertha von Suttner, Lay Down Your Arms, 1889

4. H. G. Wells, The War in the Air, 1908

5. F.T. Marinetti, Manifesto of Futurism, 1909

6. Charles Mangin, The Black Force, 1910

2. Living through the First World War

Poetic Responses to the Outbreak of War

7. Rubert Brooke, Peace, 1915

8. Anna Akhmatova, July 1914, 1917

9. Georg Trakl, On the Eastern Front, 1914

Wartime Propaganda Posters

10. Italian War Bond Poster, Weapons for Death, Weapons for Life, 1918

11. German War Bond Poster, Help Us Triumph! 1917

12. Russian War Bond Poster, Freedom Loan, 1917

13. American Poster, The Colored Man is No Slacker, 1918

Voices from the Battlefronts

14. Julian Grenfell, Letter from a British Officer in the Trenches, November 18, 1914

15. Hugo Müller, Letter from a German Soldier on the Western Front, October 17, 1915

16. Christian Creswell Carver, Letter from a British Officer Describing the Battle of the Somme, Late July 1916

17. Karl Gorzel, Letter from a German Soldier on the Battle of the Somme, October 1, 1916

18. Sowar Sohan Singh, Letter from a Soldier in the British Indian Army, July 10, 1915

19. Behari Lal, Letter from a Soldier in the British Indian Army, November 28, 1917

20. Virgilio Bonamore, Diary Entry from an Italian Soldier, July and August 1915

21. Mehmen Arif Ölçen, Memoir of a Turkish Prisoner of War, 1917-1918

22. Lidiia Zakharova, Diary Entry from a Russian Nurse at the Battlefront, 1915

23. Henri Barbusse, Under Fire, 1916

24. Ihsan Turjman, Diary Entry from an Ottoman Soldier in Jerusalem, 1916

Noncombatant Voices from the War’s Other Fronts

25. Marie and Paul Pireaud, Correspondence between a French Civilian and Her Husband in the Battle Zone, May 27, 1915, and May 23, 1916

26. Leslie A. Davis, Report on Armenian Genocide, June 30, 1915

27. Viscount Bryce Report on Atrocities against Armenians, Narrative of an Armenian Lady, November 2, 1915

28. Lena Guilbert Ford, Keep the Home Fires Burning, 1915

29. Records of Food Shortages and Rationing in Wartime Vienna, 1916 and 1926

30. Berlin Police Reports, February 17 and October 17, 1915

31. Resolutions Adopted by the International Congress of Women at The Hague, May 1, 1915

32. Editha von Krell, Recollections of Four Months Working in a German Munitions Factory, 1917

33. French Children’s Book Cover, The Little Schoolboy of Reims, 1918

34. Ethel Bilbrough, Diary Entry Describing a Zeppelin Raid in England, October 13, 1915

35. Maria Degrutère, Diary Entries from a Civilian in Occupied France, March 1915-April 1916

36. V. I. Lenin, April Theses, April 7, 1917

Reflections on the Meaning and Effects of the War

37. Sigmund Freud, Thoughts for the Times on War and Death, 1915

38. Gustave Le Bon, The Psychology of the Great War, 1916

39. G. Elliot Smith and T. H. Pear, Shell Shock and Its Lessons, 1917

Poetic Responses after Years of War

40. Alice Dunbar-Nelson, I Sit and Sew, 1918

41. Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum Est, October 1917-March 1918

3. The Aftermath of the First World War

42. The Times of London, Casualties in the World War, 1914-1918

43. Chicago Daily Tribune, America First, Now and Hereafter, January 13, 1918

44. The Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919

45. Savannah Tribune, Racial Clashes, July 26, 1919

46. E. D. Morel, The Horror on the Rhine, 1920

47. The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916

48. The Balfour Declaration, November 2, 1917

49. Westminster Gazette, Women and Wages: Equal Pay for Equal Work, January 28, 1919

50. Käthe Kollwitz, The Survivors (Poster for Anti-War Day), 1924

51. Nar Diouf, A Senegalese Veteran’s Oral Testimony, 1919

52. Ernst Jünger, Storm of Steel, 1920

53. Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front, 1928

54. Helen Zenna Smith, Not So Quiet…, 1930

55. Muk Raj Anand, Across the Black Waters, 1939

Appendixes

A Chronology of the First World War: From Prelude to Peace (1879-1923)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index