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438 “we could leave off”: Churchill, II, 110–11.

438 “That the Admiralty should prepare”: Ibid., 111.

438 “The Cabinet have decided”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 133.

438 “I just abominate”: Ibid., 142.

438 “is a projectile to be fired”: Fisher,
FGDN,
I, 291.

439 “I had not the same weight”: Magnus, 286.

439 “All powerful”: Churchill, II, 172–73.

439 “I made it a rule”: James,
Gallipoli,
32.

440 First Lord, I have no desire”: Churchill, II, 154.

440 “We play into Germany’s hands”: Ibid., 155–56.

440 “Being already in possession”: Ibid., 157.

441 “Not to use them”: Ibid., 161–62.

442 “I entreat you”: Gilbert, I, 364.

438 “I am not in accord”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 147–48.

442 “undoubtedly involves risks”: Magnus, 319.

442 “he had understood”: Fisher,
Memories,
71, 90, and Churchill, II, 164.

442 “in view of the Steps”: Churchill, II, 163.

442 “if satisfactory progress”: Hankey, I, 272.

442 “it was difficult” and “the Turks”: Ibid.

442 “an obstinate”: Asquith,
Letters to Venetia,
405.

442 “long and very friendly”: Churchill, II, 165.

442 “I am in no way concealing”: Ibid.

442 “He always out-argues me”: James,
Gallipoli,
37.

442 “I am sure I am right”: Ibid.

443 “When I finally decided”: Churchill, II, 165.

443 “This I took as the point”: Ibid.

443 “When the operation”: James,
Gallipoli,
37.

443 “The more I consider”: Churchill, II, 301.

443 “A failure or check”: Ibid., 303.

443 “You are just simply eaten up”: Ibid.

CHAPTER 24: THE MINEFIELDS

447 “I do not intend”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
I, 195.

448 “the number of persons”: Churchill, II, 194.

448 “Our affairs in the Dardanelles”: Marder, II, 240.

448 “the capsizing of one little state”: James,
Gallipoli,
50.

450 “We could not go on”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
I, 207.

452 “recognised sweeping risks”: Ibid., 211.

452 “When we got into the Straits”: Ibid.

453 “The less said about that night”: Ibid., 212.

453 “Your original instructions”: Ibid., 213.

453 “fully concurred”: Ibid.

453 “a minute later”: Ibid.

454 “I do not understand”: Ibid., 216.

454 “We have given the Carden plan”: Churchill, II, 216.

455 “One gesture with a wand”: Ibid., 215.

455 “was never more resolute”: Ibid., 216.

455 “who had a sort of feeling”: James,
Gallipoli,
50.

456 “Everyone’s blood was up”: Churchill, II, 217.

455 “Everything was eagerness”: Morgenthau, 222.

455 “My poor admiral”:
Keyes Papers,
I, 107.

456 “I do not understand”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
216–17.

456 “a complete break down”:
Keyes Papers,
I, 109.

456 “a real fine fellow”: Marder, II, 245.

456 “One could not feel”: Churchill, II, 220.

456 “Personal and Secret”: Ibid., 221.

CHAPTER 25: THE NAVAL ATTACK ON THE NARROWS

457 “a naval attack”: Moorehead, 62.

457 “no human power”: Chatterton,
Dardanelles Dilemma,
132.

460 “pulped”: Verner, 65.

460 “Thank you, old chap”: Ibid., 69.

460 “Fore-control out of action”: Ibid., 60.

460 “For God’s sake, put out the fire”: Ibid.

461 “down her side and across her bottom”: Chatterton,
Dardanelles Dilemma,
140.

461
“Sauvez-vous”:
Usborne, 115.

461 “I did not think”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
I, 237.

462 “Tell my people”: Verner, 63.

462 “The admiral directs you”: Keyes,
Memoirs,
I, 240.

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.