462 “blazing away”: Ibid., 241.
462 “If you do not propose”: Ibid.
463 “Except for the searchlights”: Ibid., 245.
464 “We are all getting ready”: Hamilton, I, 40.
465 “continue the naval operations”: Churchill, II, 231.
465 Lines from Kipling’s “If” are in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, 2nd ed., 297.
466 “to be in a position”: Churchill, II, 231.
466 “a disaster”: Wemyss, 41.
466 “reap the fruits”: Marder, II, 235.
466 “I am being most reluctantly driven”: Hamilton, I, 37.
467 “You know my view”: Ibid.
467 “a fine-looking man”: Ibid., 21.
467 “Constantinople must surrender”: Ibid., 42.
468 “I lost no time”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 257.
468 “I wish to place on record”: Ibid., 186.
468 “It appears better”: Ibid., 258.
468 “I do not hold”: Ibid., 266.
468 “consternation”: Churchill, II, 233.
468 “to renew the attack”: Ibid., 234.
468 “insuperable resistance”: Ibid., 234–35.
469 “because it was supported”: Ibid., 234.
469 “What more could we want”: Ibid.
469 “pressed to the very utmost”: Ibid., 235.
469 “with grief”: Ibid., 248–49.
469 “we had lost fewer men”: Ibid., 249.
469 “Confident, commanding, magnanimous”: Ibid.
469 “The whole Ottoman state”: Morgenthau, 227–28.
CHAPTER 26: GALLIPOLI: THE LANDINGS
471 “The Dardanelles: futile without soldiers”: Lloyd George, I, 374.
471 “If the navy required”: Marder, II, 233.
471 “either to seize the Gallipoli peninsula”: Magnus, 321.
472 “if the fleet cannot get through”: Marder, II, 235.
472 “unless the navy are convinced”: Magnus, 322.
473 “too sanguine”: Ibid.
473 “very second rate”: Ibid.
473 For the Kitchener-Hamilton conversations at the War Office, see Hamilton, I, 2–16.
474 “Only two sorts”: Ibid., 19.
474 “thyme-scented breezes”: Ibid., 18–19.
475 “of whom”: Ibid., 57.
476 “it is not customary”: Morgenthau, 45.
477 “scattered like frontier guards”: Kannengiesser, 91.
477 “would have found resistance”: Sanders, 61.
477 “If the English will only leave me alone”: Kannengiesser, 96.
477 “The British allowed us”: Sanders, 58.
477 “I have no roving commission”: Hamilton, I, 58.
477 “The slipshod manner”: Wemyss, Life and Letters, 210.
479 “In my mind”: James, Gallipoli, 89.
479 “It’s too wonderful”: Bonham-Carter, 296.
479 Rupert Brooke’s poetry is quoted by Moorehead, 110.
479 “He died at 4.46”: James, Gallipoli, 94.
479 “Nature was so peaceful”: Ibid., 95.
479 “On deck it is hardly light”: Ibid., 115.
480 “Casualties?”: Ibid., 210.
481 “the cross fire from the fleet”: Hamilton, I, 15.
481 “From the vigour”: James, Gallipoli, 192.
482 “The more I consider”: Churchill, II, 301.
482 “We cannot send”: Ibid., 303.
482 “Seriously, my friend”: Ibid., 307.
482 “every officer”: Ibid., 306.
482 “You are a foolish woman”: Gilbert, I, 540.
483 “Although I have acquiesced”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 216–18.
483 “I honestly feel”: Ibid., 221.
483 “The sea for an area”: Chatterton, Dardanelles Dilemma, 239.
484 “was very much relieved”: Churchill, II, 346.
484 “The Queen Elizabeth”: Ibid.,
484 “could not stand the fear”: Magnus, 338–39
484 “We think that the moment”: Churchill, II, 348.
484 “sulphurous”: Ibid., 350.
484 “against the Dardanelles operations”: Ibid., 351.
484 “This remarkable interruption”: Ibid.
485 “I could see”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 214.
485 “I must ask you”: Churchill, II, 353.
485 “Well, good night, Fisher”: Bacon, Fisher, II, 251.
485 “I send this to you”: Churchill, II, 554.
485 “Fisher has resigned”: Ibid., 359.
486 “First Lord: After further anxious reflection”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 228.
486 “In the King’s name”: Gilbert, I, 563.
486 “A combative grimness”: Lloyd George, I, 198–99.
486 “to escape from Winston”: Hankey, I, 315.
487 “My dear Fisher: The only thing”: Churchill, II, 360.
487 “YOU ARE BENT”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 231.
487 “in the name of friendship”: Churchill, II, 363.
487 “Dear Winston: As usual”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 234.
487 “Stick to your post”: Hough, Fisher, 343.
487 “I would far sooner”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 243.
487 “would be a worse calamity”: Roskill, Beatty, 127.
488 “Lord Fisher”: Marder, II, 281.
488 “Then the situation is impossible”: Beaverbrook, I, 106.
488 “No, I have thought of that”: Churchill, II, 364.
488 “No, this will not do”: Ibid., 366.
489 “W.C. MUST go”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 237.
489 “What are we to do for you”: Churchill, II, 366.
489 “It is not impossible”: Ibid., 368.
489 “a serious view”: Mackay, 502.
489 “He should have been hanged”: Ibid., 503.
490 “guarantee the successful termination”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 241.
490 “I shall have”: Ibid.
490 “I am afraid”: Marder, II, 290.
490 “a fit of megalomania”: Asquith, Memories and Reflections, II, 113.
490 “Fisher’s mind is somewhat unhinged”: Ibid.
490 “ought to be shot”: Hankey, I, 318.
490 “Dear Lord Fisher: I am commanded”: Asquith, Memories and Reflections, II, 111.
490 “You don’t care”: Gilbert, I, 584.
491 “Why do you part”: Ibid., 588.
491 “the letter of a maniac”: Ibid., 589.
491 “My dear Winston: You must take it”: Ibid., 594.
491 “horrible wound”: Marder, II, 289.
491 “I gather”: Gilbert, 598.
491 “to beginners in the Cabinet”: Lloyd George, I, 205.
491 “He asked what”: Churchill, II, 374–75.
491 “The navy breathes”: Beatty Papers, I, 273.
491 “We owe you a debt”: Mackay, 505.
491 “He is young”: Gilbert, I, 600.
491 “When he left”: Ibid., 605.
CHAPTER 27: “SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD”
492 “I saw them”: James, Gallipoli, 204.
492 “all the ships”: Kannengiesser, 169.
493 “Yes, and here comes”: Goodchild, 169–71.
493 “like melted glass”: Hamilton, II, 53.
493 “fills me with a desperate longing”: Ibid., 6.
494 “That evening, Kemal Bey”: Kannengiesser, 130.
494 “I do not order you”: Moorehead, 140.
494 “It will be quite impossible”: Hamilton, II, 13.
494 “We bit, fisted”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 404, 405, and James, Gallipoli, 290.
495 “spread around the beaches”: Churchill, II, 445.
495 “We might have the hills”: Hamilton, II, 66.
495 “he had not been very fit”: Ibid., 64.
495 “From bankrupt to millionaire”: Ibid., 163–64.
496 “We can’t feed Russia”: Ibid., 203.
> 496 “an elaborate explanation”: Ibid., 241.
496 “You would refuse to believe”: Ibid., 258.
496 “The fact is”: Ibid.
496 “an irresponsible statement by an ignorant man”: Ibid., 259.
496 “The 10th went forward”: Bean, II, 617–18.
496 “a cheery old fellow”: Hankey, I, 404, 426.
496 “side-show”: James, Gallipoli, 321.
497 “General Monro was”: Churchill, II, 489.
498 “on the strength”: Beaverbrook, I, 164.
498 “Well, Commodore”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 437.
498 “It is not often”: Ibid., 449.
499 “Most secret. Decipher yourself”: Ibid., 450.
499 “I have seen the place”: Ibid, 461.
500 “I realised”: Wemyss, 220.
500 “All indications”: Ibid., 224.
500 “a disastrous mistake”: Ibid., 224–25.
500 “The Navy is prepared”: Ibid., 225–26.
500 “The ‘unanimous military opinion’ ”: Wemyss, 226.
500 “responsible generals”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 489.
501 “As long as war exists”: Wemyss, 241.
502 “Mr. Balfour was most sympathetic”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 520.
502 “he had always felt”: Ibid., 522–23.
502 “Searching my heart”: Churchill, II, 169.
CHAPTER 28: THE BLOCKADE OF GERMANY
503 “the miracle weapon”: Ritter, III, 119.
504 “the nearest run thing”: Longford, Wellington, I, 489.
504 “Mr. President”: Bell, 547.
505 “in conformity”: Ibid., 38.
505 “all materials useful”: Guichard, 17.
506 “A close commercial blockade”: Bell, 31.
507 “Finally, to further empower”: Chatterton, Big Blockade, 30.
508 “We have only two objects”: Bell, 52.
508 “conditional contraband is liable”: Guichard, 23.
508 “the efficient conduct”: Tuchman, Guns of August, 334.
509 “The surest way”: Grey, II, 104.
509 “to secure the maximum”: Ibid., 107.
510 “was conducted”: Bell, 34.
510 “We rather feared”: Chatterton, Big Blockade, 51.
511 “A campaign protracts itself”: Bell, 194.
512 “There is nothing certain”: Groos, I, 54–55.
513 “During the last week”: Bell, 63.
513 Scheer’s complaints about the impact of the British blockade are in Scheer, 215–17.
515 “From a purely military point of view”: Tarrant, U-boat Offensive, 12.
516 “The gravity of the situation”: Scheer, 223.
516 “Viewed from the standpoint”: Bell, 206.
517 “Gentlemen, always realize”: Cecil, II, 221.
517 On December 21: The Tirpitz-Wiegand interview is in Bell, 210–11.
517 “he wished to sound”: Görlitz, 51.
518 “eminent financiers”: Bell, 211.
518 “The waters surrounding”: Ibid., 217.
519 “It was disloyal”: Tirpitz, II, 146–47.
519 “Pohl, by his vanity”: Görlitz, 296.
519 “Instead of which”: Ibid.
519 “We are not in a position”: Bell, 208.
520 “England would be forced”: Tirpitz, II, 150.
520 “a silly question”: Ibid.
520 “For urgent political reasons”: Scheer, 230.
520 “This order makes success impossible”: Ibid.
520 “H.M. the Emperor has commanded”: Ibid.
521 “if, in spite of the exercise”: Tarrant, U-boat Offensive, 14.
521 “a handful of naval officers”: Bell, 219.
521 “The question that really troubles me”: Simpson, 31.
521 “war has no amenities”: Bacon, Fisher, I, 121.
521 “one flag”: Simpson, 31.
521 “There were a few points”: Churchill, II, 280.
521 “losses will no doubt”: Bell, 221.
522 “an indefensible violation”: Charles Seymour, Neutrality, 33.
522 “une chose énorme”: Bell, 217.
523 “in the interest”: Görlitz, 68.
523 “absolutely crazy”: Ibid., 65.
523 “when they are recognizable”: Jarausch, 274.
526 “with the avowed object”: Bell, 233.
526 “I think we may say”: Ibid., 241.
527 “an atrocious act of lawlessness”: Dos Passos, 123.
527 “wanton and indiscriminate”: Simpson, 120.
527 “the growing number”: Jarausch, 275.
527 “could not be responsible”: Bell, 424.
CHAPTER 29: LUSITANIA AND THE AMERICAN REACTION
528 “Just now”: Preston, 49.
529 “NOTICE”: Ibid., 91.
529 “Madam, your secret is safe”: Ibid., 96. This story and many others describing the passengers and the last voyage of the doomed ship are presented by Diana Preston in her recent, detailed book Lusitania.
530 “The American people”: Simpson, 83.
530 “This afternoon”: Charles Seymour, House Papers, I, 361.
530 “bloody monkeys”: Preston, 108.
531 “Royal Navy Reserved Merchant Cruiser”: Preston, 386.
531 “Either the Lusitania”: Simpson, 151.
532 “Yes, by God”: Preston, 216.
532 “trying to put life jackets”: Ibid., 233.
532 “soon gave it away”: Ibid., 204.
534 “faces registered”: Frost, 235–36.
534 “and the Emperor and Government”: Preston, 294.
534 “My highest appreciation”: Ibid., 308.
534 “With joyful pride”: Simpson, 9.
535 “My life would not”: Heckscher, 23.
535 “stern, absolute”: Ibid., 24.
536 “I shall not aid”: Dos Passos, 10.
536 “political suicide”: Heckscher, 269.
536 “talking to Mr. Bryan”: Spring-Rice, II, 202.
536 “by self-inflicted degrees”: Heckscher, 295.
536 “Everything that I love”: Bell, 48.
537 “the example of America”: Ibid., 425.
537 “I do not know”: Heckscher, 365.
537 “The government of the United States”: Bell, 428.
538 “a strict accountability”: Charles Seymour, Neutrality, 16.
538 “has permitted in silence”: Bell, 247.
538 “Are you sure the American”: Gerard, 258.
538 “as safe as if”: Bell, 425.
538 “traveling on a volcano”: Ibid.
538 “for the immediate future”: Ibid., 426.
538 “the most definite instructions”: Ibid.
539 “In a comparatively short”: Ibid., 423.
539 “I am myself positive”: Ibid., 431.
540 “stubbornly repeated that”: Ibid., 433.
540 “Whatever may be the facts”: Ibid., 435.
540 “The United States cannot admit”: Ibid., 436.
541 “You people are not neutral”: Preston, 341.
541 “steely glitter”: Charles Seymour, House Papers, II, 6.
541 “Mr. Bryan, you are not warranted”: Ibid.
541 “it must be taken”: Bell, 438.
541 “there would appear”: Ibid.
541 “arrogant”: This and the following are from ibid., 439.
542 “The events of the past”: Ibid., 441.
542 “ghastly”: Tirpitz, II, 233.
542 “servile”: Ibid., 282.
542 “a contemptible little man”: Ibid., 339.
542 “kowtowing”: Ibid., 172.
542 “America is so shamelessly”: Ibid., 351.
542 “as I had been shot at”: Bell, 442.
543 “I cannot continue to walk”: Jarausch, 278.
546 “ineffective, illegal and indefensible”: Bell, 545.
546 “There is n
o parallel”: Ibid., 446.
547 “if all restrictions were removed”: Tirpitz, II, 172.
548 “His Majesty took”: Görlitz, 126.
548 “mad dog”: Ibid.
548 “A desperate situation”: Ibid., 136.
549 “smoked cigarette after cigarette”: Ibid., 140.
549 “His Majesty’s nerves”: Ibid., 145.
549 “The grave anxiety”: Ibid., 146.
549 “indescribable”: Blücher, 120.
551 “utterly incompatible”: Bell, 594.
551 “If it is still”: Ibid.
551 “impertinence:” Heckscher, 386.
551 “until further orders”: Tarrant, U-boat Offensive, 30.
552 “to escape”: Ibid.
552 “the cessation”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 30: THE EVE OF JUTLAND
554 “We knew that Scheer”: Weizsäcker, 30.
555 “was of cheerful disposition”: Ibid., 31.
555 “One could not find”: Marder, III, 42.
557 “terrible pain”: Philbin, 123.
557 “You know I am very fond”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 192–93.
558 “Vice Admiral Hipper no longer possesses”: Philbin, 124.
558 “coming forward”: Ibid.
558 “I agree”: Ibid.
559 “another raid”: Marder, II, 433.
563 “hammer and tongs”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 203.
565 “covering the sea”: Hase, 69.
566 “I heard rumors”: Beatty Papers, I, 274.
566 “The horrid Forth”: Chalmers, 207.
566 “I wish we could entice them”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 184.
566 “Until the High Seas Fleet”: Ibid., 203.
567 “a horrible crunching”: Tarrant, Battleship Warspite, 20.
567 “the stronger I make Beatty”: Ibid., 225.
567 “terrible disappointment”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 188.
567 “collectively and separately”: Gordon, 46.
568 “This is a great mistake”: Marder, III, 41.
568 “shockingly unprofessional”: Gordon, 56–57.
569 “I’m glad to say”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 175.
571 “coaling, sleeping”: Gordon, 30.
571 “I should not select it”: King-Hall, 36–37.
571 “as smooth”: Ibid., 36.
571 “it was, I suppose”: Copplestone, Silent Watchers, 2.
572 “Jellicoe . . . worked”: Marder, II, 443.
572 “Every night”: Dreyer, 96.
572 “It’s splendid”: Winton, 160–61.
572 “Look here, Jack”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 235.
573 “of a particularly lurid description”: Bacon, Jellicoe, 245.
573 “five French” and “United States press”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 245.
573 “I am not at all well”: Winton, 161.
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