Myths and Legends of the First World War
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27 ‘. . . the Crown Prince’ Turner (1980), p. 62; Haste (1977), p. 122
27 ‘Blood is said . . .’ John Bull, 24 October 1914
27 ‘. . . Baden Powell’ Turner (1980), p. 62
28 ‘. . . Graham-White’ Turner (1980), p. 62
28 ‘. . . Sir Hector Macdonald’ Royle (1982)
28 ‘. . . Lord Haldane’ Turner (1980), p. 59; Haste (1977), p. 123
28 ‘Every kind of . . .’ Haldane (1929), pp. 282–3
29 ‘. . . Margot Asquith’ Hoare (1997), pp. 86–8
29 ‘. . . no fewer than 50’ Turner (1980), p. 60; Collins (1998)
30 ‘. . . John Buchan’ Buitenhuis (1987), pp. 109–10
31 ‘Arthur Conan Doyle . . .’ Buitenhuis (1987), pp. 110–11
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32 ‘. . . word of mouth’ Clarke (2005), p. 76
32 ‘At Carlisle . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 53
32 ‘. . . at Durham’ Turner (1980), p. 53
32 ‘. . . at Crewe’ Turner (1980), p. 53
32 ‘. . . at Folkstone’ Daily News, 1 September 1914
32 ‘. . . American press’ Clarke (2005), p. 77
33 ‘. . . the Kiel Canal’ Turner (1980), p. 53
33 ‘It was even . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 53
33 ‘Successive variations . . .’ Clark (1985), pp. 9–16
34 ‘In Perthshire . . .’ Baden-Powell (1973), p. 100
34 ‘. . . named Champion’ South Wales Echo, 14 September 1914
34 ‘A correspondent told . . .’ Daily News, 1 September 1914
34 ‘Sir George . . .’ Wilson (1986), p. 161
34 ‘Only that day . . .’ Brittain (1933), p. 97
34 ‘Some people . . .’ Hammerton (1938), pp. 86–6
35 ‘In letters from . . .’ Wemyss (1935), p. 173
36 ‘There is being . . .’ McDonagh (1935), pp. 21–2
36 ‘Many people here . . .’ Bertie (1924), pp. 30–3
36 ‘Indeed when . . .’ Daily News, 9 September 1914
38 ‘There is no . . .’ Daily News, 15 September 1914
38 ‘London is depressed . . .’ McDonagh (1935), pp. 23–4
39 ‘There was nothing . . .’ Thompson (1922), p. 38
40 ‘M is full . . .’ Charteris (1931), p. 38
40 ‘Tennant: I am . . .’ Hansard, 18 November 1914
40 ‘The Russians in . . .’ Charteris (1931), pp. 75–6
41 ‘This started . . .’ Lovat (1978), pp. 78–9
41 ‘One held . . .’ McDonagh (1935), p. 24
41 ‘Interestingly, MI5 . . .’ The Times, 19 November 1997
41 ‘Another explanation . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), p. 63
41 ‘From Paris . . .’ Bertie (1924), p. 69
41 ‘It is also said . . .’ Cockfield (1998), p. 2
42 ‘If so, as . . .’ Hart (1930), p. 101
42 ‘. . . Sukhomlinoff’ Ponsonby (1928), p. 63
42 ‘In his lengthy . . .’ Churchill (1923), p. 224
42 ‘The outstanding . . .’ Aston (1930), p. 73
43 ‘On September 5th . . .’ Hart (1930), p. 100
44 ‘At this time . . .’ Aston (1930), p. 75
44 ‘He wrote all . . .’ Thomson (1922), p. 123
44 ‘Will you kindly . . .’ Sellers (1997), p. 21
45 ‘In Edinburgh . . .’ Sellers (1997), pp. 21–2
46 ‘Despite all his . . .’ Deacon (1969), p. 181
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48 ‘Then there is . . .’ Charteris (1931), pp. 25–6
48 ‘If any angels . . .’ Richards (1964), p. 19
49 ‘I had the most . . .’ Collins (1915)
49 ‘We came into action . . .’ Daily Mail, 14 September 1915
50 ‘We had almost . . .’ Evening News, 11 August 1915
51 ‘Arthur Machen . . .’ see Charlton (1963)
51 ‘I looked out . . .’ Hammerton (1938), p. 86
52 ‘during a particularly . . .’ Evening News, 29 September 1914
53 ‘Whether Mr Machen’s . . .’ Light, 24 April 1915
53 ‘Later in April . . .’ The Universe, 30 April 1915
53 ‘. . . Miss Marrable’ Clarke(2005), pp. 122–4
54 ‘At least six . . .’ Buitenhuis (1987), p. 104
54 ‘As late as 1966 . . .’ Taylor (1966), p. 29
55 ‘. . . while in 1980’ Terraine (1980), p. 18
55 ‘Owing to the . . .’ Gibbs (1923), p. 217
56 ‘One vociferous believer . . .’ Clarke (2005), pp. 131–3
56 ‘Another clergyman . . .’ Wilson (1986), p. 161
56 ‘General N . . .’ Light, 8 May 1915
57 ‘. . . one Mons veteran’ Haythornthwaite (1992), p. 373
57 ‘. . . Dr R.F. Harton’ Clarke (2005), p. 130
57 ‘. . . Forest of Mormal’ Whitehouse (1964)
58 ‘Poor Dix . . .’ Light, 7 August 1915
58 ‘. . . Robert Cleaver’ Clarke (2005), pp. 163–5
58 ‘Of first hand . . .’ McClure (n.d.)
59 ‘. . . Margaret Woods’ Playne (1931), p. 257
59 ‘The capture of . . .’ MacDonald (1987), p. 212
59 ‘I have been at . . .’ Charteris (1931), p. 75
61 ‘. . . Battle of Britain’ Clarke (2005), pp. 220–2
62 ‘The Angels of Mons . . .’ Daily News, 17 February 1930
62 ‘Curiously, the . . .’ Howe (1982), p. 46
62‘Doidge, a veteran . . .’ Sunday Times, 11 March 2001; Clarke (2005), pp. 171–5
63 ‘Now and again . . .’ Bladud, 9 June 1915
66 ‘They looked out . . .’ Fate magazine, May 1968
67 ‘Perhaps six or eight . . .’ Spaceview magazine (NZ), April 1965
68 ‘The truth of . . .’ McCrery (1992), pp. 68–81
69 ‘. . . Neuve-Chapelle’ Blunden (1928), p. 54
69 ‘In the course . . .’ McCrery (1992), pp. 69–70
70 ‘We are to . . .’ McCrery (1992), p. 113
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72 ‘Later historical . . .’ Terraine (1980), p. 23
73 ‘Boy scouts . . .’ The Times, 2 September 1914
74 ‘. . . a court in Aachen’ Read (1941), p. 93
75 ‘We bought . . .’ Bloem (1930), pp. 20–1
75 ‘Bloem admitted . . .’ Tuchman (1962), p. 310
76 ‘. . . Brand Whitlock’ Terraine (1980), p. 28
76 ‘. . . boiling oil’ Macdonald (1987), p. 208
76 ‘. . . exploding cigars’ Read (1941), p. 62
76 ‘. . . 30 officers’ Terraine (1980), p. 26
76 ‘. . . soldiers’ eyeballs’ Haste (1977), p. 85
77 ‘At Vise . . .’ Read (1941), p. 91
77 ‘Some of the . . .’ Read (1941), p. 91
77 ‘. . . Dinant’ Tuchman (1962), pp. 308–9
78 ‘. . . Louvain’ Tuchman (1962), pp. 311–16
78 ‘. . . an American diplomat’ Terraine (1980), p. 29
78 ‘. . . deathless epithet’ Read (1941), p. 58
78 ‘An hour before . . .’ quoted by Terraine (1980), p. 29
79 ‘. . . 5000 civilians’ Read (1941), p. 103
79 ‘. . . as at Nimy’ MacDonald (1987), p. 136
79 ‘The distribution . . .’ MacDonald (1987), p. 209
82 ‘In France . . .’ Knightley (1982), p. 67
82 ‘On August 25th . . .’ Gilbert (1994), p. 42
82 ‘She had literally . . .’ Gilbert (1994), p. 42
83 ‘. . . destroy Christianity’ Haste (1977), p. 83
83 ‘You will hear . . .’ Haste (1977), p. 85
83 ‘Up the main . . .’ Corbett-Smith (1916)
84 ‘. . . euthenasia’ Isle of Thanet Gazette, 26 January 1945
84 ‘. . . Grace Hume’ Haste (1977), p. 84; Read (1941), pp. 37–8
85 ‘. . . although The Times’ The Times, 30 September 1914
85 ‘In addition to . . .’ Collins (1998), p. 185
85 ‘In the Hands . . .’ Collin
s (1998), p. 186
85 ‘. . . War, Red War’ Collins (1998), p. 187
85 ‘Armageddon . . .’ Collins (1998), p. 186
86 ‘A Belgian writer . . .’ Read (1941), p. 35
86 ‘The Germans in . . .’ Clark (1985), p. 22
86 ‘. . . five American’ Read (1941), p. 29
86 ‘I was in . . .’ Read (1941), p. 30
87 ‘Lord Northcliffe . . .’ Haste (1977), p. 87
87 ‘The few photographs . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), pp. 135–9
87 ‘. . . Grunewald’ Haste (1977), p. 88
87 ‘In France . . .’ Read (1941), p. 14
87‘. . . Lord Bryce’ Peterson (1939), p. 58; Messinger (1992), pp. 71–84
88 ‘Even before . . .’ Messinger (1992), p. 77
89 ‘As I looked . . .’ Peterson (1939), p. 55
89 ‘We saw . . .’ Peterson (1939), p. 56
90 ‘Immediately after . . .’ Peterson (1939), p. 55
91 ‘Even in papers . . .’ Peterson (1939), p. 58
91 ‘Your report . . .’ Wilson (1986), p. 183
91 ‘A set of . . .’ see Bland (1915)
92 ‘. . . H.C. Peterson’ Peterson (1939), p. 58
92 ‘The public has . . .’ Morgan (1916), pp. 61–3
92 ‘As regards . . .’ Morgan (1916), pp. 58–9
93 ‘. . . White Book’ Haste (1977), p. 95
94 ‘. . . Telconia’ Haste (1977), p. 39
94 ‘. . . Matthias Erzberger’ Erzberger (1920)
94 ‘. . . U27’ Gray (1994), p. 238; Halpern (1994)
94 ‘. . . treated as felons’ Simpson (1972), p. 40
94 ‘. . . Zeppelin L19’ Guardian, 4 April 2001
95 ‘. . . Edith Cavell’ Buitenhuis (1987), p. 29; Haste (1977), pp. 89–90
95 ‘. . . Marguerite Schmidt’ Haste (1977), p. 90; Knightley (1982), p. 66
95 ‘The cold-blooded . . .’ Haste (1977), p. 90
95 ‘. . . Austrian trench club’ Haythornthwaite (1992), p. 374
96 ‘One Belgian . . .’ Mead (2000), p. 19
96 ‘. . . league of scientific’ Haythornthwaite (1992), p. 374
96 ‘as at Sabac’ Gilbert (1994), p. 41
96 ‘. . . no shortage’ see Reiss (1916)
96 ‘. . . the Holocaust’ Fussell (1975), p. 316
97 ‘Finding now . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), p. 26
97 ‘In 2001 . . .’ Guardian, 11 May 2001
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98 ‘. . . extinction-level’ McDonagh (1935), p. 16; Daily News, 15 August 1914
98 ‘. . . Michael McDonagh’ McDonagh (1935), p. 16
98 ‘Also current . . .’ Playne (1931), pp. 255–6
98 ‘The public . . .’ The Times, 15 August 1914
99 ‘August 31st . . .’ Clark (1985), p. 11
99 ‘. . . paid rent’ Fussell (1975), p. 121
99 ‘November 9th . . .’ Clark (1985), p. 30
100 ‘A stranger . . .’ Blunden (1928), p. 115
100 ‘I remember . . .’ Coppard (1980), p. 69
101 ‘. . . station master’ Grant (1918), p. 141
101 ‘. . . Belgian women’ Grant (1918), p. 47
101 ‘It was during . . .’ Grant (1918), pp. 269–74
101 ‘During four long . . .’ Sitwell (1949), pp. 8–9
102 ‘At Fresnes . . .’ Beaman (1920), pp. 187–8
105 ‘Any information . . .’ Hansard, 12 May 1915
105 ‘James Caldwell . . .’ Clark (1985), pp. 61–2
106 ‘The Los Angeles . . .’ Trumbo (1939), p. 23
106 ‘On the 14th . . .’ Gilbert (1994), p. 162
106 ‘Another private . . .’ Gilbert (1994), p. 162
106 ‘. . . Maple Copse’ Fussell (1975), p. 117
107 ‘The Canadians fought . . .’ Plymouth Evening Herald, 15 May 1915
108 ‘Showing that . . .’ Hansard, 19 May 1915
108 ‘He . . . told me . . .’ Scott (1922)
109 ‘The story . . . began . . .’ Charteris (1932), p. 75
109 ‘. . . Vera Brittain’ Brittain (1933), p. 374
109 ‘Another poet . . .’ Tippett (1984), p. 82
109 ‘In 1915 Ian . . .’ Hay (1915), p. 199
109 ‘He told me . . .’ Clark (1985), p. 91
110 ‘. . . Prussian Cur’ Tippett (1984), p. 82
110 ‘A later American . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), pp. 184–5
110 ‘. . . immediately protested’ Tippett (1984), p. 83
110 ‘By April . . .’ Tippett (1984), p. 84. The full statements are on record at the National Archives of Canada.
112 ‘. . . Harold Peat’ Peat (1918), pp. 149–50
112 ‘Ernest Chambers . . .’ Tippett (1984), p. 82
112 ‘. . . Major G.C. Carvell’ Tippett (1984), p. 86
113 ‘In June 1920 . . .’ Tippett (1984), p. 87
113 ‘. . . until 1988’ see Ward (2001)
113 ‘by Overton’ Sunday Express, 15 April 2001
114 ‘. . . problems remain’ Ward (2001)
114 ‘Quite a pleasant . . .’ Asquith (1968), p. 44
115 ‘We have known . . .’ The Times, 17 April 1917
117 ‘Other correspondents . . .’ The Times, 26 April 1917
117 ‘The Lancet . . .’ The Times, 20 April 1917
117 ‘Elsewhere both . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), p. 103
118 ‘The letter told . . .’ Sanders and Taylor (1982), p. 146
118 ‘The Germans protested . . .’ The Times, 23 April 1917
119 ‘Dillon: Has . . .’ Hansard, 30 April 1917
119 ‘. . . while the Daily Mail’ Turner (1980), pp. 186–7
119 ‘. . . Rudyard Kipling’ Turner (1980), p. 186
119 ‘The usually . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 187
120 ‘No reasonable . . .’ The Times, 17 May 1917
121 ‘Its director . . .’ Sanders and Taylor (1982), p. 147
121 ‘At the Foreign . . .’ Sanders and Taylor (1982), p. 147
121 ‘While it should . . .’ PRO file, FO 395/147
121 ‘The relevant Foreign . . .’ PRO file, FO 395/147
121 ‘In his authoritative . . .’ Fussell (1975), p. 116
122 ‘Worldwide . . .’ These Eventful Years, p. 381
122 ‘In the First . . .’ Montagu (1970), pp. 31–2
123 ‘One day there . . .’ New York Times, 20 October 1925
124 ‘The New York . . .’ New York Times, 20 October 1925
125 ‘On arrival in . . .’ The Times, 4 November 1925
126 ‘. . . Phillip Knightley’ Knightley (82), p. 90
126 ‘This paper makes . . .’ Ponsonby (1928), pp. 112–13
127 ‘Kenworthy: Does the . . .’ Hansard, 24 November 1925
127 ‘Sir Austen . . .’ Hansard, 2 December 1925
128 ‘Of all this . . .’ Montague (1922), pp. 92–4
129 ‘. . . Auschwitz’ Hayward (2003), p. xii
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130 ‘Alan Clark . . .’ Terraine (1980), p. 170
131 ‘. . . war poets’ Sheffield (2001), p. 15
131 ‘It is not too . . .’ Lloyd George (1936), pp. 2038–9; p. 2040
133 ‘By no means . . .’ Neillands (1999), pp. 244–5
133 ‘Indeed on the right . . .’ Neillands (1999), p. 249, 261
133 ‘The total weight . . .’ Edmonds (n.d.), pp. 313–14
135 ‘. . . no fewer than 78’ Neillands (1999), pp. 19–20
135 ‘The oft-told story . . .’ Neillands (1999), p. 223
135 ‘It is a simple . . .’ Griffith (1998), pp. 7–8
137 ‘By the same token . . .’ Brooks (1998), p. 19
139 ‘. . . just six heavy’ Griffith (1998), p. 24
139 ‘. . . yellow fumes’ Griffith (1998), p. 25
139 ‘Far too many . . .’ Neillands (1999), p. 238
139 ‘Even after . . .’ Griffith (1998), p. 12
139 ‘On ordinary ground . . .’ Griffith (1998), p. 11
> 140 ‘The science of . . .’ Griffith (1998), p. 13
141 ‘In due course Elles . . .’ Terraine (1980), pp. 179–80
141 ‘This message was . . .’ Neillands (1997), p. 285
142 ‘I imagined the . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 284
142 ‘Among these short-lived . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 291
142 ‘Several no less . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 242
142 ‘Writing to his wife . . .’ Terraine (1980), p. 148
142 ‘Jean de Pierrefeu . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 11
142 ‘. . . ADH von Zwehl . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 11
143 ‘The nervous strain . . .’ The Times, 16 September 1976
145 ‘The Mark V . . .’ Terraine (1980), p. 149
147 ‘There is one . . .’ Swinton (1932), p. 248
148 ‘. . . factory at Enfield’ Terraine (1980), p. 139
148 ‘Baker-Carr . . .’ Terraine (1980), pp. 134–5
148 ‘Far from being . . .’ Terraine (1980), p. 137
148 ‘According to the . . .’ Lloyd George (1936), p. 357
149 ‘. . . 38.98 per cent’ Terraine (1980), p. 132
149 ‘. . . 77mm’ Sheffield (2001), p. 92
149 ‘In our brigade . . .’ Laffin (1988), p. 192
149 ‘The result was that . . .’ Neillands (1999), pp. 447–52
150 ‘I listened last night . . .’ Knightley (1982), p. 93
150 ‘Censorship was imposed . . .’ Knightley (1982), pp. 69–79
150 ‘. . . Eye-wash’ Knightley (1982), p. 70
150 ‘By early 1915 . . .’ Knightley (1982), p. 78
151 ‘. . . 1st Army HQ’ Farrar (1998), p. 70
151 ‘When in 1917 . . .’ Neillands (1999), p. 456
151 ‘. . . Arthur Ponsonby’ Ponsonby (1928), p. 134
151 ‘The very . . .’ Laffin (1988), p. 74
151 ‘And so . . .’ Farrar (1998), p. 106
152 ‘The average war . . .’ Montague (1922), pp. 97–8
153 ‘The shortages . . .’ Farrar (1998), p. xiii
153 ‘Marshal Foch . . .’ Brooks (1998)
153 ‘An equivalent . . .’ Brooks (1998)
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154 ‘One such . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 241
154 ‘. . . in Islington’ Haste (1977), p. 129
155 ‘In the Commons . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 241
155 ‘It Is For England . . .’ Turner (1980), p. 241
155 ‘The news editor . . .’ McDonagh (1935), pp. 151–2
156 Alice Wheeldon trial: Rowbotham (1986); McDonagh (1935), pp. 180–1; The Times, 7–12 March 1915; Turner (1980), pp. 244–5
162 Pemberton Billing trial: Hoare (1997); Kettle (1977); Turner (1980)
164 ‘You deny . . .’ White (1917), pp. 114–15; pp.117–18