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166 ‘They really look like’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.66 28.8.14
167 ‘This difference in visibility’ Miguel, Pierre L’Année 14 pp.104–5
167 ‘They told me that’ Herwig Marne p.78
168 ‘in an indescribable disorder’ Miguel p.110
168 ‘In the evening news spread’ Krafft-Krivanec p.183
168 ‘For so long’ SB S7 Kaisen Collection, 97/2–3
169 ‘Millions of men’ Rivière, Jacques Carnets 1914–1918 ed. Isabelle and Alain Rivière, Pub. Fayard 1974 p.16
169 ‘Lucien Laby’ Laby, Lucien Les Carnets de l’aspirant Laby, médecin dans les tranchées 28 juillet 1914 – 14 juillet 1919, Editions Bayard 2001 p.19
171 ‘lay siege to Strasbourg’ Delabeye, B. (Lt) Avant la ligne Maginot. Admirable résistance de la 1ère armée à la frontière des Vosges. Héroïque sacrifice de l’infanterie française Montpellier, Causse, Graille & Castelnau, 1939 pp.114–15
172 ‘A countess’ Strong p.49
175 ‘a sublime chaos’ Clayton, Anthony Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–1916 p.24
177 ‘something struck my knee’ Lacouture p.30
179 ‘I can still hear’ Blond p.20
179 ‘Frenchmen must look’ Bertie diary 5.11.14
179 ‘The battle was lost’ Lintier p.60
180 ‘Mown down’ ibid. p.25
181 ‘Exhausting week’ Cœurdevey, Edouard Carnets de guerre 1914–1918: Un témoin lucide Plon 2008 23.8.14
182 ‘5 a.m. movement order’ ibid.
182 ‘theatrical and a great error’ Bertie diary 10.9.14
182 ‘The Mulhouse business’ Gide diary 4.9.14
182 ‘There can be no talk’ Herwig War p.89
182 ‘Jacques Rivière’s regiment’ Rivière pp.20, 30, 31, 46
183 ‘It was finished’ ibid. pp.33, 39
183 ‘From that comes’ ibid. p.42
183 ‘With us, the army’ ibid. 8.9.14 p.80
184 ‘Even before the fight’ Jones, Heather et al. (eds) Untold War: New Perspectives in First World War Studies Leiden 2008 p.29
184 ‘Lieutenant, will we’ Herwig Marne p.100
185 ‘What good things’ IWM 09/65/1 Papers of Sir James Stubblefield
185 ‘We civilians know’ SB 7, 97/2–17
185 ‘decked itself out’ Chickering Urban Life p.431
185 ‘An elderly dowager’ Strong p.100
186 ‘I think that the French’ Bertie diary 16.8.14
186 ‘There is much more’ ibid. 31.8.14
186 ‘We soldiers were usually’ Flood p.51
186 ‘Louis Barthas’ Barthas pp.19–20
186 ‘Self-evidently’ ibid. p.88
2 ‘GERMAN BEASTLINESS’
187 ‘Our cavalry patrols’ Horne and Kramer p.96
187 ‘all soldiers are comrades’ Rivière p.35
188 ‘It is utter rot’ Wolz, Nicolas Das lange Warten. Kriegserfahrungen deutscher und britischer Seeoffiziere 1914 bis 1918 Schöningh Paderborn 2008 pp.354–5
188 ‘An American in Paris’ Gide 15.11.14
188 ‘We fought the Guard Corps’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers
188 ‘It seems to be universally’ New Statesman 10.10.14
189 ‘the clamour of’ Holroyd p.447
189 ‘We can state’ Horne and Kramer p.419
191 ‘Our soldiers have been’ ibid. p.36
191 ‘Decidedly, I do not like’ Knoch, Peter (ed.) Menschen im Krieg 1914–1918, Ludwigsburg Pädagogische Hochschule 1987 p.78
191 ‘Harry Graf Kessler’ Kessler 22.8.14
192 ‘We pushed on’ ibid. p.47
192 ‘Russian atrocities have’ ibid. p.80
3 LANREZAC ENCOUNTERS SCHLIEFFEN
198 ‘As if at manoeuvres’ Spears p.134
198 ‘they were like eager children’ ibid. p.135
198 ‘[a] most dangerous person’ Jackson, Julian The Fall of France OUP 2003 p.91
Chapter 6 – The British Fight
1 MONS
201 ‘Last mile ½ battalion’ IWM 07/63/1Harcourt-Vernon MS
202 ‘No longer was it’ Harding Davis, Richard With the Allies Duckworth 1915 p.22
202 ‘These French people’ Craster J.M. (ed.) Fifteen Rounds a Minute Macmillan 1976 p.23
203 ‘All day men have been’ IWM 07/63/1
203 ‘When he personally’ GW interview transcript
208 ‘There was no hatred’ Bridges, Sir Tom Alarms and Excursions Longman 1938 p.73
208 ‘I said to this’ BBC Home Service radio broadcast 23.8.54
209 ‘Funny to notice’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS
209 ‘They were in solid’ Terraine, John Mons Batsford 1960 p.91
210 ‘God! How their artillery’ Ascoli p.92
210 ‘The men were digging’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe papers
211 ‘it was too late’ ibid.
211 ‘Our faithful gunners’ ibid.
211 ‘A very trying day’ IWM 88/52/1 Edgington papers
211 ‘masses of grey-clad’ Sheffield The Chief p.72
211 ‘if Sgt. —’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe MS
212 ‘You are the only’ Wencke p.224
213 ‘the spirit of victory’ Zuber p.132
213 ‘Gentlemen, please’ ibid. p.136
214 ‘even had time to think’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe MS
216 ‘Our troops advance’ Longerich p.20 24.8.14
216 ‘a long and trying march’ Craster p.37
216 ‘most disheartening’ ibid. p.39
216 ‘I have never been’ Harris, Simon History of the 43rd and 52nd (Ox and Bucks) Light Infantry in the Great War 1914–18 Simon Harris 2012 p.22
217 ‘The whole way back’ Rose narrative, Journal of the Wiltshire Regiment
217 ‘But who will feed’ Spears p.319
217 ‘It makes you cry’ IWM 99/41/1 Madame Jeanne van Bleyenberghe correspondence
217 ‘their guard does not’ Haig p.65
218 ‘I like most others’ Craster pp.44–6
219 ‘D.H. had … been’ ASC1938
2 LE CATEAU: ‘WHERE THE FUN COMES IN, I DON’T KNOW’
219 ‘That evening their colonel’ ASC1938 Bird Narrative
221 ‘You needn’t bother’ ASC 1938 Edmonds letter 11.5.33
222 ‘Don’t call a’ ibid.
223 ‘everyone spoke in’ Spears p.228
223 ‘The sense of doom’ ibid. p.230
223 ‘It was perhaps’ ibid. p.233
224 ‘to me it was a period’ ASC1938 Murray letter of 18.12.30
224 ‘[the airmen’s] maps were black’ Baring p.25
224 ‘A sun-baked drowsy’ Spears p.235
225 ‘Salisbury Plain’ Ascoli p.97
225 ‘At the outset’ Priestley, R.E. The Signal Service in the European War of 1914–18 W. and J. Mackay 1921 p.33
226 ‘On your feet!’ Cave and Sheldon Le Cateau p.40
226 ‘An hour later’ ASC1938 Bird narrative
226 ‘[He] was most anxious’ ASC1938 Arthur Hildebrand letter of 21.12.30
227 ‘It is impossible to miss’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers
227 ‘I did not think’ Ascoli p.100
227 ‘We could see a [British]’ Cave and Cowley p.52
228 ‘too terrible for words’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers
228 ‘Capt. R.G. Beaumont’ ASC1938 Beaumont letter
229 ‘we sat there talking’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe papers
229 ‘At the same time’ Cave and Sheldon p.76
230 ‘I have lost my’ ibid. p.106
230 ‘what we want to do’ ASC 1938 Bird narrative
231 ‘which left me pretty well’ Ascoli p.105
231 ‘About 2.30 the situation’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor letter of 2.9.14
233 ‘however, we retired’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor letter of 14.9.14
233 ‘It was a wonderful sight’ Terraine p.152
233 ‘I must warn you’ ASC1938 Bird narrative
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235 ‘In the British centre’ ASC1938 Major C.M. Usher Narrative
236 ‘The British had withdrawn’ Cave and Sheldon p.100
236 ‘but the British also’ ibid. p.163
237 ‘No news of II Corps’ ASC1938 Edmonds letter 11.5.33
238 ‘I fancy Haig’ ibid.
Chapter 7 – The Retreat
239 ‘marched to St. Quentin’ IWM 88/52/1 Edgington diary
240 ‘behaving in a scandalous’ Babington, Anthony For the Sake of Example Leo Cooper 1983 p.6
242 ‘Marches are much slower’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS
242 ‘The chief’ Clarke p.67
242 ‘They were acting’ BNA WO95/1347
243 ‘We had to wait’ H. Goatham taped interview transcript, GW files
243 ‘despite the fact that’ Macarthur, Brian For King and Country Little, Brown 2008 p.21
245 ‘Les anglais sont’ Baring p.28
245 ‘quite calm, approachable’ ASC1938 HS Jeudwine letter
245 ‘it was the old story’ Craster p.50
246 ‘In six weeks’ Reichsarchiv (ed.), Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918, Vol. I Berlin Mittler 1925 p.440
248 ‘One is already beginning’ Thompson p.98
248 ‘We Germans have’ ibid. p.106
249 ‘the French considered’ Spears p.250
249 ‘He manipulated his units’ ibid. p.269
250 ‘A French officer gleefully’ ibid. pp.339–40
252 ‘I stand bad news’ Smith, Leonard et al. France and the Great War 1914–1918 trans. Helen McPhail CUP 2003 p.41
254 ‘It is one of the worst’ Harris p.44
255 ‘The Germans did not’ Craster p.56
255 ‘Do you know that’ Thomson p.45
255 ‘If ever a German’ ibid.
256 ‘They’ve got their cavalry’ Craster p.57
256 ‘The departure was a’ Terraine p.193
256 ‘We didn’t know where’ Ascoli p.140
257 ‘the damned French army’ ASC1938 Harper letter 8.9.14
257 ‘which all seems to point’ IWM 88/51/1 Edgington diary
Chapter 8 – Tannenberg: ‘Alas, How Many Thousands Lie There Bleeding!’
259 ‘Russian society had not’ Kondurashkin p.8
260 ‘Think of me’ Knox p.46
260 ‘you soldiers ought’ ibid. p.45
261 ‘big, red-bearded’ ibid. p.103
261 ‘The yellow and purple’ Ksyunin A. Narod na voine (iz zapisok voennogo korrespondenta) [People at War: From the Notes of a War Correspondent] Petrograd 1916 p.69
261 ‘a hundred half-savage’ Reed p.186
263 ‘When a Russian officer’ Ksyunin p.5
263 ‘The Belobeevsky infantry’ Samborn, Josh Daily Life in Russian Poland p.49
263 ‘soldiers knew that’ ibid. p.50
263 ‘in the guise of buying’ Samborn, Josh Unsettling the Russian Empire p.304
263 ‘with the goal’ ibid. p.305
264 ‘After occupying Kalitz’ Samborn Poland p.52
264 ‘Where can we’ Palmer and Wallis p.36
264 ‘Across its vast’ See Koenigswald, Harald von Stirb und Werde. Aus Briefen und Kriegstagebuchblättern des Leutnant Bernhard von der Marwitz, Breslau Korn Verlag 1931 pp.29–33
265 ‘Nikolai Gumilev’ Gumilev, Nikolai Zapiski Kavalerista [Diaries of a Cavalryman] Moscow 2007 p.23
265 ‘Johann Sczuka’ Borck/Sczuka p.17
265 ‘On their wanderings’ ibid. p.18
265 ‘Capt. Lazarev’ Littauer p.136
266 ‘But it is only’ Kondurashkin p.41
266 ‘the soldiers were relieved’ Littauer p.137
266 ‘We didn’t know’ ibid. p.129
269 ‘a cavalryman is used’ ibid. p.138
269 ‘Vladimir Littauer’ ibid. p.144
269 ‘Two Hussar squadrons’ ibid.
269 ‘He rebuked’ Borck/Sczuka p.21
271 ‘savagely mauled’ Pohlmann p.282
272 ‘not a stone’ Mihaly pp.32, 55
272 ‘This town is completely’ Kessler p.106
272 ‘Prittwitz’s staff’ Reichsarchiv (ed.) Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918 Vol. II Berlin Mittler 1925 p.321
276 ‘Where do you’ Knox p.59
278 ‘Officials at the post office’ Reichsarchiv p.324
280 ‘The position is very’ Knox p.87
280 ‘he did not know’ ibid. p.74
281 ‘I had never imagined’ Nowak, Karl Friedrich (ed.) Die Aufzeichnungen des Generalmajor Max Hoffman Vol. 1 Berlin Verlag für Kulturpolitik 1930 p.54 9.9.14
281 ‘To gain this critical’ Reichsarchiv Vol. II p.243
281 ‘The Kaiser, with his’ Herwig Marne p.xvi
282 ‘Our hearts are full’ Schädla diary 31.8.14
282 ‘The Emperor trusted’ Knox p.82
282 ‘that it does not matter’ ibid. p.80
283 ‘Passing through Johannisberg’ Reed p.119
283 ‘An elderly couple’ Borck/Sczuka pp.26–7
283 ‘Loyal Germans all’ ibid. p.23
Chapter 9 – The Hour of Joffre
1 PARIS AT BAY
286 ‘More than 50,000 people’ Guard p.9
286 ‘The Parc de Belleville’ ibid. p.66
287 ‘It was considered’ ibid. p.39
287 ‘The five hundred men’ Bertie diary 16.8.145
287 ‘Many domestic titles’ ibid. pp.10, 12, 15, 21, 45
287 ‘I wonder he doesn’t’ Painter p.224
287 ‘From what mad optimism’ Gide 25.8.14
287 ‘The Germans seem sure’ Bertie diary 30.8.14
288 ‘Bertie complained’ ibid. 3.9.14
288 ‘it is sad to see’ quoted Englund, Peter The Beauty and the Sorrow Bloomsbury 2011 p.73
288 ‘evidently a very’ Lloyd George p.154
288 ‘Gallieni had retired’ Gallieni, Joseph Mémoires du Maréchal Gallieni: Défense de Paris, 25 Aout–11 Septembre 1914 Paris Payot 1928
289 ‘One afternoon a crowd’ Strong p.128
2 SIR JOHN DESPAIRS
290 ‘Ah, Napoleon’Lloyd George Vol. I p.156
292 ‘showed little interest’ Spears p.312
293 ‘Our people have done’ Asquith to VS 27.8.14 p.215
293 ‘The Belgians … are really’ Asquith to VS 25.8.14 p.195
294 ‘It is extraordinary’ Bonham-Carter p.216
295 ‘If [the] French cannot’ IWM papers of N. Macleod 05/63/1
295 ‘our men had done’ ibid.
295 ‘Published first British’ Clarke p.68
296 ‘One proclaimed himself’ Guard p.107
297 ‘Norman Macleod’ IWM 05/63/1 3.9.14 Macleod papers
3 SEEDS OF HOPE
300 ‘Uncertainty about British’ Terraine p.216
300 ‘On the night of 31 August’ Spears p.316
300 ‘The great towering cuirassiers’ ibid.
302 ‘Gen. Joseph de Maistre’ ibid. p.319
302 ‘They looked like ghosts’ ibid. p.318
302 ‘The mayor of a hamlet’ Lintier p.43
303 ‘Above all they have’ Hirschfeld letter of 12.9.14 p.180
304 ‘I was seized by’ Sulzbach p.26
306 ‘One of our lorries’ IWM 06/61/1 Hacker diary 22.8.14
307 ‘I wonder if that’ Harcourt-Vernon MS IWM 07/63/1
307 ‘On 3 September, Gallieni’ Gallieni p.68
307 ‘his head reminded me’ Spears p.384
308 ‘He refuses a blindfold’ Allard, Capitaine Jules Journal d’un gendarme 1914–1916 Présentation d’Arlette Farge Bayard Éditions 2010 p.60
308 ‘Joffre spent’ Spears p.394
308 ‘The French are most’ Haig p.68
308 ‘we could hold a position’ ibid.
309 ‘his black uniform’ Spears p.401
310 ‘Unshaved, and scarcely’ Bloem, Walter The Advance From Mons 1914 Peter Davies 1930 p.101
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311 ‘Here was a vivid’ Painter p.222
311 ‘At once he began’ Spears p.414
Chapter 10 – The Nemesis of Moltke
1 THE MARNE
318 ‘a small active man’ Haig p.104
319 ‘Lt. Paul Tuffnau’ Palmer and Wallis p.26
322 ‘It was extraordinary’ Flood p.51
322 ‘we passed Jimmy Rothschild’s’ Tennyson IWM 76/21/1
322 ‘Orders to the provost-marshal’ Corns and Hughes-Wilson p.119
322 ‘The most exciting thing’ Baring p.54
324 ‘Have all taxis’ Blond p.172
325 ‘ploughing its way’ Lintier p.71
325 ‘Never mind’ Blond p.186
326 ‘At the attack on Etrepilly’ ibid. p.193
328 ‘Our pursuit could not’ Bridges p.94
332 ‘everyone much more’ William Edgington IWM 88/52/1
332 ‘It’s a precious slow’ Craster p.76
332 ‘heavy defeat’ Sheffield p.83
332 ‘his nerve is wonderful’ Tennyson MS IWM 76/21/1
335 ‘What’s that?’ Lintier p.156
336 ‘This could not be’ Herwig The Marne pp.302–3
336 ‘rumours have reached’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS 17.9.14
336 ‘My God, how could’ ibid. p.302
337 ‘The nervousness’ Mombauer p.264
338 ‘The army blamed’ Strachan p.262
338 ‘Following a report’ Stahl und Steckrüben pp.365–6
338 ‘This much is certain’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.87 23.9.14
338 ‘Gertrud Schädla’ Schädla diary 3.9.14
341 ‘The general news’ Grey to Percy Illingworth 14.9.14 Illingworth papers
341 ‘The enemy will not’ Lacouture p.31
341 ‘This would be’ Cœurdevey pp.35–6
341 ‘The whole situation’ Hopman 15.9.14 p.43
341 ‘incredible folly’ ibid. 17.9.14 p.439
342 ‘we have experienced’ Desfontaines p.133
342 ‘The massive, historic’ Reichsarchiv Vol. IV p.270
342 ‘The army was not defeated’ Ludendorff Das Marne-Drama Munich 1934 p.1
342 ‘What a question’ Givray, Jacques (Capitaine Plieux de Diusse) Journal d’un Officier de Liaison (La Marne -: – La Somme -: – L’Yser) Paris Jouve 1917 p.86
2 ‘STALEMATE IN OUR FAVOUR’
345 ‘Everything is going well’ Harris p.50
345 ‘I am deeply thankful’ Spears p.469
346 ‘As a man I do not’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS
347 ‘The advance proceeded’ Kendall, Paul Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare Spellmount 2012 p.342
347 ‘We had an awful’ ibid. p.99
