Voices of World War I

Priscilla Roberts is Associate Professor of Business at the City University of Macau, China.

• PrefaceIntroductionEvaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents Chronology of World War I and Its AftermathPrelude1. “The Lamps Are Going Out”: Sir Edward Grey Recalls the British Declaration of War on Germany, August 3, 1914Events during the Early War, 1914–19152. Submarine Warfare: Account of German Lieutenant Otto Weddigen, September 22, 1914 3. Julian Grenfell on World War I, October 1914 and April 1915 4. German Rear Admiral Paul Schlieper on the Fall of Qingdao, November 7, 1914 5. Two Accounts of the Christmas Day Truce, December 24–25, 1914 6. Havildar Sohan Singh’s Testimony on the Singapore Mutiny, February 1915 7. Mary Roberts Rinehart, “Night in the Trenches,” Saturday Evening Post, May 8, 19158. Charles E. Lauriat Jr., Account of the Sinking of the Lusitania, May 7, 1915 9. Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, Letter to British Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith on Gallipoli, September 8, 1915Fighting at the Front10. Captain H. D. Trounce, Account of Mining and Countermining, November 191811. Zeppelin Bombing Raids on Britain: William Leefe Robinson, Combat Report, September 3, 1916, and Muriel Dayrell-Browning, Letter to Her Mother, September 4, 1916 12. The Early Years of Military Aviation: First Lieutenant Jack Morris Wright, Letter to His Mother, January 22, 1918 13. Harold A. Littledale, “With the Tanks,” December 1918 14. Recollections of Lieutenant Bob Hoffman, 111th U.S. Infantry, 28th Division, August 1918 15. Frank W. Weed, Reports on Shell Shock in the U.S. Army, 1918 16. U.S. Soldiers Describe the Effects of Gas, 1921Women and World War I17. Emmeline Pankhurst, Open Letter to Members of the Women’s Social and Political Union, August 12, 1914 18. Accounts of the Execution of Nurse Edith Cavell, October 12, 1915 19. Manifesto Issued by Envoys of the International Congress of Women at The Hague to the Governments of Europe and the President of the United States, October 15, 1915 20. Arno Dosch Fleurot, “Russian Girl, First to Slay Foe, Is Wounded,” Chicago Tribune, July 31, 1917 21. Henry Wales, Eye Witness Account of the Execution of Mata Hari, October 15, 1917 22. Sexual Violence against Women: Berta Lask, “The Jewish Girls,” 1919 23. The Great War in Africa: Melvin Page, Excerpts from Interview with Gogo Dorothy Liwewe, Penama Village, Malawi, December 28, 1972Issues of Race in Wartime24. Rheinhold Eichacker, “The Blacks Attack!,” April 1917 25. Indian Forces in World War I: Statement of Lord Hardinge, July 1917 26. Alice Ruth Dunbar-Nelson, “I Sit and Sew,” 1918 27. Sih-Gung Cheng Describes the Chinese Laborers in France, 1918 28. William Tecumsah Knox, 317th Sanitary Train, 366th Ambulance Company, 92nd Division, American Expeditionary Force: Oral History Interview by Mark Beveridge, May 23, 1980 Events during the Later War, 1916–1918 29. Letters of Captain Surgeon J. S. S. (“Ian”) Martin during the Siege of Kut, February–April 1916 30. Gaspard Farrer, Letters to American Friends, December 1917 to November 1918 31. Conrad Hoffmann Jr. Describes Food and Other Shortages during the British Blockade of Germany, 1917–1918 32. The German Spring Offensive: Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Special (Backs-to-the-Wall) Order of the Day, April 11, 1918 33. John J. Pershing, American Expeditionary Force, Combat Instructions, September 5, 191834. Prison Camp Newspaper: The Barbed Wireless, September 14, 1918 35. Captain Ernest W. Gibson, 57th Pioneer Infantry, Recalls the 1918–1919 Influenza Epidemic, February 19, 1920Diplomacy and Empire 36. The Sinn Féin Uprising: Proclamation Issued in Dublin, Signed by Pádraic Pearse and Six Others, April 24, 1916 37. The Arab Revolt Begins: Proclamation Published in Mecca by Sherif Hussein, June 27, 1916 38. The Possibility of a Negotiated Peace Settlement: Lord Lansdowne, Letter to the Editor, London Daily Telegraph, November 29, 1917 39. V. I. Lenin, “For Bread and Peace,” December 14, 1917 40. President Woodrow Wilson, “The Fourteen Points,” Address to Joint Session of the U.S. Congress, January 8, 1918 41. A Report on Mesopotamia by T. E. Lawrence, The Sunday Times, August 22, 1920 Epilogue42.Thomas Hardy, “And There Was a Great Calm”: (On the Signing of the Armistice, Nov. 11, 1918)Appendix 1: Biographical Sketches of Important Individuals Appendix 2: Glossary BibliographyIndex

This volume will serve well as a supplementary reader for any introductory course on WW I.