World War I Document Archive

This is an invaluable resource on the First World War or, as it was advertised then, the war to end all wars. It has also been referred to as the Great War. Indeed, it was great in size. The war encompassed two‐thirds of the world, lasted four years and claimed the lives of over eight and half million people. From the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 to the treaty of Versailles exactly five years later, much of the world was literally at war. It was a war fought with mustard gas, the first modern war...