Guides: WWI Primary and Secondary Sources: Print and Online: Personal Narratives, Speeches, Papers

Letters, Correspondences and Speeches

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Speech of His Excellency Signor Antonio Salandra in the Capitol of Rome Speech given on June 2, 1915 in response to the emperor of Austria and the German chancellor.
Diplomatic correspondence between the United States and Germany August 1, 1914 through April 6, 1917.
America's Debt to England: The Failure to Teach the Foundations of Liberty As read before the American Historical Association in Cincinnati, Ohio on December 28, 1916.
Amtliche Kriegs-depeschen nach Berichten des Wolff'schen Telegr.-Bureaus. Official war dispatches to the Wolff Telegraph Agency, the largest news agency in Germany.
Trench Journals in the First World War Soldiers' Writings.

A subject search in Franklin: World War 1914-1918 -- Personal Narratives brings up 489 records. Limit

Personal Narratives, Peripheral Theatres: Essays on the Great War (1914-18) by Anthony Barker, et al., editors
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D509 .P47 2018
ISBN: 9783319668505
Publication Date: 2018
An analysis of the Great War through personal narratives and artifacts
Landscapes and Voices of the Great War by Angela K. Smith, et al., editors
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D524.6 .L36 201
ISBN: 9781138079878
Publication Date: 2017
Commitment and Sacrifice: Personal Diaries from the Great War by Frans Coetzee and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D640.A2 C65 2015
ISBN: 9780199336074
Publication Date: 2015
Five previously unpublished diaries of five participants in the First World War and a republication of a sixth that address the war on the Western front and the Mediterranean, as well as behind the lines on the home front: a British sapper who dug tunnels beneath the trenches of the Western Front; a French infantry officer; an American volunteer ambulance driver ; a German businessman caught in England upon the war's outbreak and interned there for the duration; a New Zealand artilleryman; and a German machine gunner, captured and held as a prisoner of war.
Hidden Stories of the First World War by Jackie Storer
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. D640.A2 S86 2014
ISBN: 9780712357388
Publication Date: 2014
This work collects 32 stories that tell the experiences of ordinary people during the war. Illustrated with photos, memorabilia, and maps.

The Papers of Woodrow Wilson Messages, Papers, Speeches, etc. of President Wilson in 69 volumes.. Also available in 2 volumes:Online or Print
War Memoirs of David Lloyd George 6 volumes.

A keyword search in Franklin: world war 1914-1918 diaries brings up 213 and entries