New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915: April-September, 1915

This is history as it was being written. The New York Times compiled this documentary record in April 1915, as the Great War entered its second year and the world watched Germany announce its naval blockade of Britain. Here are the actual diplomatic notes: Germany's justification for unrestricted submarine warfare, America's furious protest, Britain's response about merchant vessels flying neutral flags. These are not historians' interpretations but the raw communications between governments, the speeches of world leaders, the newspapers of the moment. Reading these pages feels like opening a time capsule: you encounter the confidence of generals, the anxieties of neutrals, the dawning horror of a new kind of warfare. For anyone who wants to understand how contemporaries understood World War I - before the trench poetry, before the casualty numbers became abstract - this volume offers an unforgettable window into the minds of 1915.