PDFs to Read or Download
PDFs to Read or Download
The Genesis of the World War: An Introduction to the Problem of War Guilt
by Harry Elmer Barnes (1924)
In this book H. E. Barnes shifted the war guilt off the Triple Alliance and onto the Entente Cordiale. The main culprits are Serbia, Russia and France rather than the usual suspects. He showed that Germany and Austria-Hungary had no agendas that could only be achieved through a European War while the goals of Serbia, Russia and France could only be achieved through the defeat of Germany and the destruction of Austria-Hungary. His writing style is clear and precise and he supports his conclusions with an abundance of international documentary sources.
Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War
by Gerry Docherty & Jim Macgregor (2014)
Hidden History reveals how accounts of the war’s origins have been deliberately falsified to conceal the guilt of the secret cabal of very rich and powerful men in London responsible for the most heinous crime perpetrated on humanity. For 10 years, they plotted the destruction of Germany as the first stage of their plan to take control of the world. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was no chance happening. It lit a fuse that had been carefully set through a chain of command stretching from Sarajevo through Belgrade and St. Petersburg to that cabal in London. Our understanding of these events has been firmly trapped in a web of falsehood and duplicity carefully constructed by the victors at Versailles in 1919 and maintained by compliant historians ever since.
by Robert Threshie Reid Loreburn (1919)
A valuable historical resource for anyone interested in understanding the complex political and diplomatic landscape that led to the outbreak of World War I. Loreburn’s insights and analysis provide a unique perspective on this pivotal moment in world history, and his book remains a significant contribution to the study of the First World War.
by Sidney Bradshaw Fay (1930)
Fay changed the way people looked at the causes of World War One, by rejecting the idea that it was Germany which caused the war and blaming instead the ‘underlying causes of the war,’ by which he meant: (a) the system of secret alliances; (b) militarism; (c) nationalism; (d) economic imperialism; and (e) the newspaper press.
Present-day Europe, its National States of Mind
by T. Lothrop Stoddard (1917)
An analysis of public sentiment in the European countries during the middle of World War I. The emphasis is on the great powers – Britain, France, Germany, Turkey, Italy, Russia and Austria-Hungary, but Stoddard also takes a brief look at the neutrals (except for Switzerland). Written just before the February revolution in Russia, this is a snapshot of a lost world. All the warring countries were certain of victory and making plans for carving up the defeated. The roots of postwar bitterness, for both winners and losers (especially Italy), can be traced back to these dashed hopes. A valuable piece of journalism from over a century ago.
A Refutation of the Versailles War Guilt Thesis
by Alfred von Wegerer (1930)
By far the best treatment of the revised views of war responsibility in relation to the making of the Treaty of Versailles that we recommend it to the fair and serious consideration of American readers. Properly perused and assimilated by the thinking people of the western world, this book would do more to further world peace than the combined armies and navies of any ten existing nations.
by E.D. Morel (1916)
The author, a leading British pacifist, was widely vilified for the views expressed in this book, and had his health wrecked (as Bertrand Russell described) by being put into Pentonville jail. In haunting words of insight, his book described how: ‘Those dreadful fields of senseless carnage’ had been brought about by ‘futile and wicked Statecraft’ – by ‘an autocratic and secret foreign policy’ carried out by those ‘who by secret plots and counter-plots … hound the peoples to mutual destruction.’