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Memoirs of two pre-war Russian Foreign Ministers (Sergei Sazonov and Aleksandr Izvolskii)

Sazonov, Sergei Dmitrievich, 1861-1927.
Fateful years, 1909-1916 : the reminiscences of Serge Sazonov.
London : J. Cape, 1928.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999604451002121
Digital copy (New York: F. A. Stokes Company, 1928) in Hathi Trust

Izvolskii, A. P. (Aleksandr Petrovich), 1856-1919.
Recollections of a foreign minister (Memoirs of Alexander Iswolsky). / tr. by Charles Louis Seeger.
Garden City : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999603809702121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Diplomatic Document Collections (the "color" books: Russian Orange Book, Serbian Blue Book, etc.) 

Collected diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European War.
London :  H.M. Stationery Office, Harrison and Sons Printers, 1915.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999590198302121
Digital copy in HeinOnline: https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9913977800902121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Documents respecting the negotiations preceding the War published by the Russian government.  Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of His Majesty, October, 1914.
London :  H.M.S.O.,  1914.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Russia. Ministerstvo inostrannykh del.   How the war began in 1914 : being the diary of the Russian Foreign Office from the 3rd to the 20th (old style) of July, 1914.  
London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1925.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Transcribed digital copy of the Russian Orange Book

Transcribed digital copy of the Serbian Blue Book

Transcribed digital copy of the Belgian Grey Book

Transcribed digital copy of the French Yellow Book

Austro-Hungarian red book.
New York : Press of J. C. Rankin co., 1915.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Scott, James Brown, 1866-1943.
Diplomatic documents relating to the outbreak of the European war / edited with an introduction by James Brown Scott.
New York : Oxford University Press, American Branch,  1916.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999566763102121
Digital copy of Volume 1 in Hathi Trust
Digital copy of Volume 2 in Hathi Trust

Romberg, Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm,  Freiherr von,  1866-1939.
Falsifications of the Russian orange book :  actual exchange of telegrams between Paris and St. Petersburg at the outbreak of the war / edited by Baron G. von Romberg.
New York :  B.W. Huebsch,  1923.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Romberg, Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm,  Freiherr von, 1866-1939.
The falsifications of the Russian orange book.  /  published by Baron G.V. Romberg ... translated by Major Cyprian Bridge, with a foreword by G.P. Gooch.
London : G. Allen & Unwin,  [1923].
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Romberg, Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm,  Freiherr von,  1866-1939.
Die fälschungen des russischen orangebuches; der wahre telegrammwechsel Paris-Petersburg bei kriegsaubruch / herausgegeben von freiherrn G. von Romberg.
Berlin und Leipzig : Vereinigung wissenschaftlicher verleger, 1922.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Stieve, Friedrich,  1884-1966.
Das russische orangebuch über den kriegsausbruch mit der Türkei ;  seine fälschungen über das garantie-angebot der ententemächte an die ottomanische regierung; im auftrag des Auswärtigen amtes.  /  herausgegeben von Friedrich Stieve.
[The Russian orange book about the outbreak of war with Turkey, its falsification about the guarantee that the entente offered to the Ottoman government, by order of the Foreign Affairs Office]
Berlin :  Verlag für kulturpolitik,  1926.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999944614502121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

British Documents on the Origins of the War, 1898-1914. Edited by G.P. Gooch and Harold Temperley.
Vol. XI: The Outbreak of War: Foreign Office Documents: June 28th-August 4th, 1914.
Printed and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1926.
Digital copy in The World War I Document Archive

Diplomatic documents.  Negotiations covering the period from July 19/August 1 to October 19/November 1, 1914 preceding the war with Turkey   [Translation of the Russian and French texts]. Appendix: Speech of Mr. Sazonoff, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the Douma of the Empire, January 27 (February 9), 1915. 
[Petrograd? : Imperial Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1915].  
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Ottoman diplomatic documents on the origins of World War One. /  edited by Sinan Kuneralp, Gül Tokay.
Beylerbeyi, İstanbul :  The Isis Press,  2008-
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Monographs and memoirs relating to the Eastern European nations roles in the July 1914 Crisis and the outbreak of World War I.

Paléologue, Maurice, 1859-1944.
An ambassador’s memoirs. / translated by F. A. Holt.
New York : George H. Doran, 1923-25.
v. 1. July, 1914-June 2nd, 1915. -- v. 2. June 3, 1915- August 18, 1916. -- v. 3. August 19, 1916-May 17, 1917.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999596608402121
Digital copy of Volume 1 in Hathi Trust
Digital copy of Volume 2 in Hathi Trust
Digital copy of Volume 3 in Hathi Trust

Schoen, Wilhelm Eduard, freiherr von, 1851-1933.
The memoirs of an ambassador; a contribution to the political history of modern times
London : G. Allen & Unwin, ltd., 1922.
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Digital copy in the Internet Archive

Buchanan, George William, Sir, 1854-1924.
My mission to Russia and other diplomatic memories / by the Right Hon. Sir George Buchanan.
Boston : Little, Brown & company, 1923.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999636676402121
Digital copy of Volume 1 in Hathi Trust
Digital copy of Volume 2 in Hathi Trust

Beck, James M.  (James Montgomery),  1861-1936.
The evidence in the case :  a discussion of the moral responsibility for the War of 1914, as disclosed by the diplomatic records of England, Germany, Russia, France, Austria, Italy, and Belgium /  by James M. Beck ; with an introduction by Joseph H. Choate.
Rev. ed., with additional material.
New York :  G. P. Putnam’s Sons,  1915.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999602694002121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Cook, Edward Tyas, Sir, 1857-1919
Why Britain is at war, the causes and the issues, set out, in brief form the diplomatic correspondence and speeches of ministers
London : Macmillan, 1914.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Headlam, James Wycliffe,  1863-1929.
The history of twelve days, July 24th to August 4th, 1914 :  being an account of the negotiations preceding the outbreak of war based on the official publications. /  by J. W. Headlam.
New York :  Charles Scribner’s Sons,  1915.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999943189902121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Stieve, Friedrich,  1884-1966.
Isvolsky and the world war, based on the documents recently published by the German Foreign Office. / by Friedrich Stieve, translated by E.W. Dickes.
London : G. Allen & Unwin, [1926]
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999627686102121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust (American Knopf edition)

Stieve, Friedrich,  1884-1966.
Russia and France on the road towards the world war :  from the diplomatic correspondence of a Russian statesman.
[Berlin? : s.n.],  1925]
Extracts, with the addition of connective text, from documents edited by Dr. Friedrich Stieve in "Der diplomatische schriftwechsel Iswolskis, 1911-1914" and "Iswolski im weltkriege; der diplomatische schriftwechsel Iswolskis, Iswolskis aus den jahren 1914-1917".
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910015152302121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

Aleksinskii, Grigorii,  1879-1968.
Russia and the great war. / by Gregor Alexinsky ... translated by Bernard Miall.
London :  T. Fisher Unwin,  1915.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999943469002121
Digital copy in Hathi Trust

New York Times.
Why England, Germany and Russia went to war. : The "white papers" of England and Germany and the "orange paper" of Russia, and other diplomatic correspondence and documents relating to the European war. Republished from the New York times. August 23d and 24th, September 27th and other dates, 1914.
[7th ed.--enlarged to include the Russian "orange paper"].
New York : New York Times Co., 1914.
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Digital copy in Hathi Trust (5th Edition: only includes white papers of England and Germany)

Soroka, Marina.
Britain, Russia, and the road to the First World War :  the fateful embassy of Count Aleksandr Benckendorff (1903-16). /  Marina Soroka.
Burlington, VT :  Ashgate,  2011.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910103999402121

Kennan, George F.  (George Frost),  1904-2005.
The fateful alliance :  France, Russia, and the coming of the First World War. /  George F. Kennan.
New York :  Pantheon Books,  1984.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999553134102121

Lieven, Dominic, 1952-
Russia and the origins of the First World War. /  D.C.B. Lieven.
New York :  St. Martin’s Press,  1983.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/9910062180002121

Tunstall, Graydon A.  (Graydon Allen)
Planning for war against Russia and Serbia : Austro-Hungarian and German military strategies, 1871-1914. /  Graydon A. Tunstall, Jr.
Boulder, Colo. :  Social Science Monographs,  1993.
https://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/999757914102121

Van der Vat, Dan.
The ship that changed the world : the escape of the Goeben to the Dardanelles in 1914. / Dan van der Vat.
Edinburgh : Birlinn, 2000.
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