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Now you can study the First World War of America from first-hand perspective. This is volume 11 of the First-hand History of America. This essential collection 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.

This eBook is #11 in the First-hand History of America series

*This collection includes 48 First-hand 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
• The Battle of Jutland – Sir David Beatty

Product Details

BN ID: 2940015534337
Publisher: Packard Technologies
Publication date: 10/22/2012
Series: First-hand History of America , #11
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 184
File size: 353 KB

About the Author

About The Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885
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