Volume III of the 1923 Source Records of The Great War

Circa 1923/United States

'Source Records of the Great War' was published in 1923 by the American Legion through the National Alumni compilation project. It served as a comprehensive multi-volume documentary history chronicling the military, political, and economic aspects of the First World War. The set brought together official reports, eye-witness accounts, and diplomatic correspondence to provide readers with primary source material.

The volumes were issued in distinctive, brightly colored cloth bindings featuring elaborate gilt stamped designs intended to appeal to middle-class home libraries of the 1920s. They were widely distributed across the United States as subscription books to veterans, families, and educational institutions looking to preserve the memory of the conflict. Today, individual volumes are common finds in used bookstores, though intact and matching complete sets remain popular with military history collectors.