PRIMARY SOURCES

A. Printed Sources

1. Bibliographies of Printed Primary Sources

2. Collections of Printed Source Documents

a. Selected Official Documents -- France

b. Selected Official Documents -- Germany

c. Selected Official Documents -- Great Britain

d. Selected Official Documents -- Italy

e. Selected Official Documents -- United States

3. Official Histories

4. Newspapers

a. Guides

b. Selected Major Newspapers

B. Microformat

1. Selected Official Documents -- Germany

2. Selected Official Documents -- Great Britain

3. Selected Official Documents -- United States

PRINTED SOURCES

BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES

Messick, Frederic M. Primary sources in European diplomacy, 1914-1945: a bibliography of published memoirs and diaries. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Reference Z2000 M395 1987 (LC)

Vogel, Robert. A breviate of British diplomatic blue books, 1919-1939. Montreal: McGill University Press, 1963.
Reference Z2009 V64 (LC)
SML Stacks Z2009 V64 (LC)

COLLECTIONS OF PRINTED SOURCE DOCUMENTS

Selected Official Documents -- France

Documents diplomatiques français sur l'Allemagne 1920. Franzosische Diplomatenberichte aus Deutschland 1920. Ed. Stefan Martens. Pariser historische Studien, vol. 33. Bonn: Bouvier, 1992-1993. 2v.
SML Stacks DC393 D63 1992

France. Commission de publication des documents relatifs aux origines de la guerre 1939-1945. Documents diplomatiques français, 1932-1939. Paris, Impr. nationale, 1963-1986. 2v. in 32.
SML Stacks D741 F73

First series covers 1932-1935; second series covers 1936-1939.

Germany. Auswartiges Amt. Akten zur deutschen auswartigen Politik, 1918-1945. Baden-Baden: Imprimerie Nationale, 1950- .
SML Stacks JX691 A44 (LC) [Ser. A-C, E]
SML Stacks JX691 +A44 (LC) [Ser. D]

Holdings: Ser. A:1-14; Ser. B:1-21; Ser. C:1-3, 4.1-2, 6.1-2; Ser. D: 1-12, 13.1-2; Ser. E: 1-3, 5-6

Supplemented by: -----. -----. Akten zur deutschen auswartigen Politik, 1918-1945. Erganzungsband zu den Serien A-E: Gesamtpersonenverzeichnis, Portraitphotos und Daten zur Dienstverwendung, Anhange. Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1995.
SML Stacks JX691 A44 Suppl (LC)

-----. -----. Documents on German foreign policy, 1918-1945, from the archives of the German Foreign Ministry. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Office, 1949-[1983]
MUDD, Government Documents Center S 1.82

Published only for the years 1933-41, which constitute Series C, v. 1-7; Series D, v. 1-14

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part II, From the First to the Second World War. Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984- .

Series A: The Soviet Union, 1917-1939. 17v.
SML Stacks DK266 A3 +B68 1984

Series B: Turkey, Iran, and the Middle East, 1918-1939. In progress; 35v. currently published.
SML Stacks DS63.2 G7 +B75 1985

Series C: North America, 1919-1939. 25v.
SML Stacks JX632 +B748 1986 (LC)

Series D: Latin America, 1914-1939. In progress; 20v. currently published.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7485 1989 (LC)

Series E: Asia, 1914-1939. In progress; 50v. currently published.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7486X 1991 (LC)

Series F: Europe, 1919-1939. In progress; 67v. currently published.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7488X 1990 (LC)

Series G: Africa, 1914-1939. In progress; 30v. currently published.
SML Stacks JX632 +B769X 1994 (LC)

Series H: The First World War, 1914-1918. 12v.
SML Stacks D621 G7 B758 1989

Series I: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919. 15v.
SML Stacks D645 +B73 1989

Series J: The League of Nations, 1918-1941. 10v.
SML Stacks JX1975.5 G7 +B75X 1992 (LC)

British documents on foreign affairs--reports and papers from the Foreign Office confidential print. Part III, From 1940 through 1945. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1997- .

Series A: The Soviet Union and Finland. 6v.
SML Stacks JX632 +B7762 1997 (LC)

Series B: Near and Middle East. 10v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B768 1997 (LC)

Series C: North America. 5v.
SML Stacks JZ633 +B763 1999 (LC)

Series D: Latin America. 11v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B7656 1998 (LC)

Series E: Asia. 8v.
SML Stacks KZ632 +B75X 1997 (LC)

Series F: Europe. 26v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B766X 1997 (LC)

Series G: Africa. 5v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B767X 1998 (LC)

Series L: World War II and general. 5v.
SML Stacks JZ632 +B7694X 1998(LC)

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Documents on British foreign policy, 1919-1939. Ed. E. L. Woodward and Rohan Butler. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1946-1989. 65v.
SML Stacks By69b 946g

Series I:1-27; 1919-1924
Series IA:1-7; 1925-1930
Series II:1-21; 1929-1938
Series III:1-10 1938-1939

I Documenti diplomatici italiani. Roma: Libreria dello Stato, 1953- .
SML Stacks DG491 A2

Series 6, vol. 1-2 (1918/1922)
Series 7, vol. 1-16 (1922/1923-1934/1935)
Series 8, vol. 1-4 (1935-1936); vol. 7 (1935-1939); vol. 12-13 (1939)
Series 9, vol. 1-10 (1939-1943)
Series 10, vol. 1-6 (1943-1948)

-----. -----. Foreign relations of the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1932- .
Mudd, Govt Documents Reference S 1.1 [Shelved in Seminar Room]

Library has:
1932-1951
1952/1954:v.1-1952/1954:v.16
1955/1957:v.1-1955/1957:v.27
1958/1960:v.1
1958/1960:v.4
1958/1960:v.6
1958/1960:v.7
1958/1960:v.10:pt.1
1958/1960:v.11-1958/1960:v.13
1958/1960:v.15
1958/1960:v.16
1961/1963:v.1-1961/1963:v.4
1961/1963:v.14-1961/1963:v.15
1961/1963:v.21
1955/1957:v.3 China
1958/1960:v.5 American Republics
1958/1960:v.11 Lebanon and Jordan
1958/1960:v.15/v.16 Burma,Malaya and Singapore, East Asia-Pacific Region, Cambodia
1958/1960:v.15/v.16/pt.2 Laos Fiche
1961/1963:v.13-v.15 Western Europe, Berlin.

-----. -----. Foreign relations of the United States: Diplomatic papers: the Soviet Union, 1933-1939. Department of State publication, no. 4539. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office 1952.
Mudd, Government Documents Center S 1.1:933-39 [Shelved in Seminar Room]

OFFICIAL HISTORIES

Note: Official histories are published works on historical subjects that straddle the fence between primary and secondary sources. Specifically, they are works that are commissioned by a government or government agency. In general, official histories address the performance of one of a country's military services (i.e. the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean, 1939-45). Well before the documents are released to the public, the government or agency will make select, confidential documents available to only one historian (i.e. a retired admiral with a history background who now wants to write about his service) and ask him/her to write a history on a specific subject. Usually the government’s agent (i.e. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office) will publish the work when it's finished. Because the government has editorial control, provides the documents and selects the historian, the resulting "history" generally reflects the position of the government or agency that originally commissioned the work. In that respect, it is a primary source. But because the work is written by someone who was often not intimately involved in the events themselves, it may also be considered a secondary source. What is generally most rewarding about reading official histories is that they often publish entire documents that are not yet available in the archives and reveal some biases held by that organization. Official histories can also be very deceiving. Sometimes they are restricted by an overt political agenda that encourages the historian to employ a great deal of poetic license (especially true for the fascist period in Italy). Thus, they are not usually as reliable as a genuine primary source.

Bargoni, F. L'Impegno navale italiano durante la guerra civile spagnola (1936-1939). Rome: Ufficio storico della marina militare, 1992.
SML Stacks DP269.47 I8 +B37X 1992

Dutailly, H. Les Problemes de l'armee de terre française, 1935-1939. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1980.
SML Stacks UA702 P36 (LC)

This is vol 5 of L'Armée française de 1919 à 1939, though it lacks collective title (Orbis no. ABL9506).

History of the Second World War. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

United Kingdom Civil Series.
United Kingdom Civil Series. War Production Series.
Bia98 G5 A1
Some volumes in these subseries are classed individually, as are reprints. Consult Orbis and the card catalog for titles, call numbers, and locations.

United Kingdom Medical Series.
Medical Historical D759 H5

United Kingdom Military Series.
The volumes in this subseries are catalogued individually in both Old Yale and LC classifications. Consult Orbis and the card catalog for titles, call numbers, and locations.

Italy. Marina. Stato maggiore. Ufficio storico. La Marina italiana nella seconda guerra mondiale. Roma, 1952-.
SML Stacks D775 I75

Holdings: v. 1-19, 21:1-3, 22.

Italy. Esercito. Corpo di stato maggiore ufficio storico.

The volumes issued by this agency include many on World War II. They are catalogued individually in both Old Yale and LC classifications. Consult this heading in Orbis and the card catalog for titles, call numbers, and locations (author = italy esercito corpo di stato maggiore).

Morison, Samuel Eliot. History of United States naval operations in World War II. Boston: Little, Brown, 1947- 1962. 15v.
SML Stacks Bia88 Z9 M82

Sabatier de Lachadenede, Rene. La marine française et la guerre civile d'Espagne: 1936-1939. Vincennes: Service historique de la marine, 1993.
SML Stacks DP269.47 F7 S23X 1993

Santoro, Giuseppe. L'Aeronautica italiana nella seconda Guerra mondiale. Second edition. Milan: Edizioni Esse, 1966.
SML Stacks D792 I8 S26 1957

Schreiber, Gerhard, Korvettenkapitan Dr., Bernd Stegemann, and Detlef Vogel. Der Mittelmeerraum und Sudosteuropa: von der "non belligeranza" Italiens bis zum Kriegseintritt der Vereinigten Staaten. Das Deutsche Reich und der Zweite Weltkrieg, Bd. 3. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1984.
SML Stacks DD256.5 D434 3

Le Truppe italiane in Albania (anni 1914-20 e 1939). Roma: Stato maggiore dell'esercito, Ufficio storico, 1978.
SML Stacks DR953 I8 T78 1978

NEWSPAPERS

Guides

Pluet-Despatin, Jacqueline. La presse trotskiste en France de 1926 à 1968: essai bibliographique. Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1978.
SML Stacks Z6956 F8 P58 (LC)

Yale University. Library. Newspaper Holdings. New Haven: 1992.
Available at the Reference Desk and at the service desk in the Microform Room.

Volumes for Albania – Zimbabwe, USA, and UK contain lists of all newspapers held by the Yale Libraries, with the exception of those held at the Beinecke, those bound and in the Sterling stacks, and those which may appear as part of microform collections.

Selected Major Newspapers

Daily Telegraph. London. 1856-.
Microform Film An D1475

Deutsche allgemeine Zeitung. Berlin. 1939-1945.
Microform Film An D489B

Le Figaro. Paris. 1826-.
Microform Film An F467

The Guardian. Manchester. 1821-.
Microform Film An M312

Il Mattino. Naples. 1892-1943.
Microform Film An M434

Le Monde. Paris. December 1944-.
Microform Film An M745

The New York Times. 1851-.
Microform Film An N43

Popular newspapers during World War II. Marlborough, England: Adam Matthew Publications, 1992. 83 reels.
Microform Film B17268

This collection makes available complete runs of the following London newspapers for 1939- 1945: The Daily Express, The Daily Mirror, The News of the World, The People, and The Sunday Express. Accompanied by reel guide (Microform Reference PN5114 P66 1993).

The Times. London. 1785-.
Microform Film An T482 B. MICROFORMAT1. Selected Official Documents -- Germany

Germany. Auswärtiges Amt. Records and documents relating to the Third Reich: German Foreign Office files, 1938-1944. 5 reels (Reels 46-50).
Microform Film Misc 796
Unpublished guide available in Microform Reference.

National Archives Collection of Foreign Records Seized, 1941- .
Microform Film RG 242

This record group contains numerous sets of documents, each with its own M or T number, e.g. T77, Wehrmacht and German army high command files; T78, reel 364, Reports by German military attaché in Rome; T120, Auswärtiges Amt files; T175, Papers of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS; T586, Segreteria Particolare del Duce, Carteggio Riservato; T816, Galeazzo Ciano files (Lisbon Papers); T821, Records of the Italian Armed Forces. Search Orbis by call number (co=film rg242) for a complete list of the library’s holdings. Printed and/or microfilm guides are available for several T numbers; a list of these guides can be found in microform reference.

Records and documents relating to the Third Reich, 1935-1945 (inclusive). 8 reels.
Microform Film Misc 823
Unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference. 2. Selected Official Documents -- Great Britain

Churchill, Winston, Sir. Churchill at war: the Prime Minister's Office papers, 1940-1945: PRO record classes PREM 3 and PREM 4. Berkshire, England; Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media; Public Record Office, 1998. 291 reels.
Microform Film B18022
Guide: Microform Reference DA569.9 C5 +C46 1998

Conditions and politics in occupied Western Europe: 1940-1945. Brighton, England: Harvester Press Microform Publications, 1981-1985. 183 reels.
Microform Film B15357
Guide: Microform Reference Z6207.W8 C65 1984 (LC)

Material reproduced was selected from PRO CLASS FO 371 (General correspondence, Political) of the Foreign Office files.

Great Britain. Cabinet Office. Cabinet minutes (conclusions), 1916-1939 (inclusive). 62 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB23

Index on reels 59-62; unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

-----. -----. Cabinet papers or memoranda, 1915-1939 (inclusive). 199 reels.
Microform Film BG CAB24

Index on reels 1-3; unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

-----. -----. Committee on Foreign Policy, proceedings and memoranda, 1936-1939 (inclusive). 4 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB27

Unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

-----. -----. Committee of Imperial Defence. Minutes of meetings of the chiefs of staff sub-committee, 1923-1939 (inclusive). 29 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB53

Unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

-----. -----. War Cabinet minutes, 1939-1945 (inclusive). 16 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB65

Subject index is available on film.

-----. -----. War Cabinet memoranda (WP and CP series), 1939-1945 (inclusive). 32 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB66

Unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

-----. -----. War Cabinet memoranda [WP(G) Series], 1939-1941 (inclusive). 5 reels.
Microform Film GB CAB67

Unpublished finding aid in Microform Reference.

Great Britain. Foreign Office. Confidential British Foreign Office political correspondence. China, Series 3: 1932- 1945. Bethesda, MD: University Publications of America, 1996-.
Microform Film B16307
Guide: Microform Reference DS773.89 +C65 1995

Currently published are Part 1: 1932-1933 (78 reels); Part 2: 1934-1935 (80 reels); Part 3: 1936- 1938 (103 reels).

-----. -----. Confidential British Foreign Office political correspondence: Germany, Series 1, 1906-1925. Bethesda, MD: University Publication of America, 1995.
Microform Film B16252
Guide: Microform Reference DD232.5 +S76 1997 (2v.)

Part 1: 1906-1919 (105 reels); Part 2: 1920-1921 (139 reels); Part 3: 1922-1923 (150 reels); Part 4: 1924-1925 (94 reels).
The Political Correspondence Files were the repository for information gathered by London and the diplomatic posts as well as by other government ministries.

-----. -----. Foreign Office records: general correspondence after 1906 (political).
Microform Film GB FO371

Includes correspondence with the United States, Russia, Japan and Mexico during the World War II period. Published finding aids available in Microform Reference. The Foreign Office registers are also available on microfilm; see Film GB FO566 and GB FO802.

Pacifism, disarmament and international relations. Woodbrige, CT: Primary Source Media.

Series One: Archives of War Resisters' International, 1921-1974. 103 microfiche.
Microform Fiche B4083
Guide: Microform Reference JZ5576 +A73 1977 (LC)

Series Two: Archives of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1915-1960. 9 reels.
Microform Film B18213
Complete listing of contents on first reel.

Series Three: Archives of the Peace Pledge Union, 1936-1986. 27 reels.
Microform Film B18214
Guide: Microform Reference JZ5526 P33 P33 1988(LC)

The Times Intelligence files, 1905-1978. Unit 3: World War II (1939-1945). Woodbridge, CT: Primary Source Media. 17 reels.
Microform Film B18299

The Tom Harrisson Mass-Observation archive: file reports series, 1937-1949. Brighton, England: Harvester Microform, 1983.
Microform Fiche B3990
Guide: Microtext Reference DA566.4 +M337 1981 3. Selected Official Documents - United States

O.S.S. / State Department intelligence and research reports.

Yale library holdings include Africa, 1941-1961; China and India; Germany and its occupied territories during World War II; The Middle East, 1950-1961; The Soviet Union; Japan and its occupied territories during World War II. For call numbers search Orbis by title (title = o s s state department intelligence and research reports).

Manhattan project official history and documents

SML, Microform (Non-Circulating)
Call Number: Film B19008
Library has: reel 1-reel 12

United States. Department of State. Confidential U.S. diplomatic post records.

Yale library holdings include Central America and the Caribbean, 1930-1945; The Middle East, 1925-1941; The Middle East 1942-1944; Russia and the Soviet Union, 1914-1941. For call numbers search Orbis by title (title = confidential u s diplomatic post records).

-----. -----. Confidential U.S. State Department central files.

Yale library holdings include documents on internal and foreign affairs for China, 1930-January 1963; The Far East, 1945-1959; Formosa, 1945-1954; India, 1945-1954; Vietnam, 1960-Januray 1963; Great Britain, 1930-1949; France, 1945-1954; Spain, 1930-1939; Germany, 1930-January 1963; Italy, 1940-1954; Argentina, 1945-1959; Cuba, 1945-January 1963; El Salvador, 1945- 1959; Mexico, 1940-January 1963; Nicaragua, 1945-1959; Egypt, 1955-1959; Iran, 1945-1954; Palestine: United Nations Activities, 1945-1949; Palestine-Israel, 1945-January 1963; The Soviet Union, 1945-January 1963; British Africa, 1945-1959; South Africa, 1945-1959. For call numbers search Orbis by title (title = confidential u s state department central files).

United States. Department of the Army. General Staff. Military Intelligence Division. U.S. military intelligence reports.

Yale library holdings include Argentina, 1918-1941; France 1919-1941; Germany, 1919-1941; Germany, 1941-1944; Italy 1918-1941; Japan, 1918-1941; Mexico, 1919-1941; Soviet Union, 1919-1941; Soviet Union, 1941-1944; Surveillance of radicals in the United States, 1917-1941. For call numbers search Orbis by title (title = u s military intelligence reports).