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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027836802 ''The Craft Sinister; a diplomatico-political history of the Great War and its causes--diplomacy and international politics and diplomatists as seen at close range by an American newspaperman who served in Central Europe as war and political correspondent''] by George Abel Schreiner 1920 Archive.org
*''The Secret Treaties of Austria-Hungary, 1879-1914'' by Alfred Franzis Pribram, Professor of History in the University of Vienna. English edition by Archibald Cary Coolidge. Published 1920 and 1921.Translation of ''Die politischen Geheimverträge Österreich-Ungarns, 1879-1914''. [https://archive.org/details/secrettreatiesof01pribiala Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/cu31924063462646 Volume II] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/lionsofjuly00will ''The Lions of July : Prelude to War, 1914''] by William Jannen Jr. 1997 Archive.org Lending Library. The author "displays an outstanding mastery of the complex issues and an ability to make them interesting and understandable".<ref> [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ttQFBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA292 Page 292] ''Longman Companion to the First World War: Europe 1914-1918'' by Colin Nicolson. Google Books</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/worldwarshortacc00fieb ''The World War: a Short Account of the Principal Land Operations on the Belgian, French, Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish Fronts''] by Colonel G J Fiebeger 1921 Archive.org.
