Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (106 page)

16
‘France’s Gen. Joseph Joffre’ Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire
The Memoirs of Marshal Joffre
trans. Col T Bentley Mott Bles 1931 p.59

16
‘some of the characteristics’ Lieven p.113

16
‘without ceasing to’ NV 1/14.6.08 p.3

16
‘Serbia is, practically’ Lieven p.41

17
‘shows the activity’ ibid. p.42

17
‘Within little more’ Vivian, Herbert
Servia: The Poor Man’s Paradise
Longmans 1897 p.vi

17
‘there lies an’ ibid. p.236

18
‘I am so fond’ Reed, John
The War in Eastern Europe
London Eveleigh Nash 1916 p.53

18
‘All sorts of people’ ibid. p.3

19
‘In Paris in June’ Becker
Guerre
p.47

20
‘The influence of the Church’ ibid. p.21

20
‘most people had’ Minaudier, Jean-Pierre
Population et Société de 1850 à 1914
Lycée La Bruyère, Versailles 2004 p.4

20
‘the 1907 census’ ibid. p.7

20
‘when one in ten’ ibid. p.2

21
‘Poincaré presented’ Becker
Guerre
pp.52–3

21
‘The new financier’ Dangerfield, George
The Strange Death of Liberal England
Constable 1935 p.211

21
‘The English world’ Montague, C.E.
Rough Justice
Chatto & Windus 1926 p.49

22
‘Everyone seems to have’ Dangerfield p.242

23
‘we soldiers beat’ Wilson, Henry diary 23.3.14

24
‘a Roman reserve’ Jenkins, Roy
Asquith
Collins 1964 p.52

24
‘He was ingenious’ Dangerfield p.17

24
‘government by a cabinet’ ibid. p.49

24
‘an intelligent fanatic’ ibid. p.79

25
‘Very few prime ministers’ ibid. p.322

25
‘the country is menaced’ ibid. p.281

2 BATTLE PLANS

27
‘This man could be’ Mombauer, Annika
Helmuth von Moltke and the Origins of the First World War
CUP 2000 p.50

27
‘Austria’s fate will not’ Herwig
War
p.45

29
‘dark, small’ Churchill
World Crisis
Vol. I p.154

29
‘Such an ancient’ Zeynek, Theodor Ritter von
Ein Offizier im Generalstabskorps erinnert sich
. Broucek, Peter (ed.) Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 2009 p.47

30
‘In proportion to’ Bihl, Wolfdieter
Der Erste Weltkrieg 1914–1918. Chronik – Daten – Fakten
Wien Böhlau 2010 pp.61–2

30
‘he does not draw’ Rohl pp.162–3

31
‘Three other sources’ see ibid. passim

32
‘Germany has no reason’ Wilson, Keith (ed.)
Decisions for War 1914
UCL Press 1995 p.44

34
‘they proposed to make’ Becker
Guerre
p.55

34
‘England is embracing’ Lloyd George, David
War Memoirs
Vol. I Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1933 p.30

35
‘Both powers are scarcely’ Lieven p.48

35
‘Do you trust’ Recouly p.104

35
‘You are all wrong’ Lloyd George Vol. I p.1

35
‘It’s not the Germans’ Sitwell, Osbert
Great Morning
Macmillan 1948 p.297

36
‘there was still no’ Jeffrey p.97

36
‘you have over’ Clark p.213

36
‘enthusiastic planning’ ibid. p.211

36
‘Winston Churchill wrote’
My Early Life
p.66

37
‘Grey’s most recent biographer’ Waterhouse, Michael
Edwardian Requiem
Biteback 2013 passim

37
‘During the eight years’ Lloyd George Vol. I p.46

38
‘At a dinner party’ ibid. p.48

38
‘Sir Edward Grey belongs’ ibid. p.97

38
‘the grasp of the situation’ Henry Wilson diary 9.8.11

38
‘a Junker from his’ Holroyd, Michael
Bernard Shaw
Chatto & Windus 1997 p.450

39
‘our funny little army’ Henry Wilson diary 22.11.13

39
‘the best & most patriotic’ Jeffrey p.76

39
‘inconceivable stupidity
’ ibid. p.80

40
‘with a sense of’ ibid. p.84

40
‘that poisonous’ Asquith to Stanley 20.12.14

Chapter 2 – The Descent to War

1 THE AUSTRIANS THREATEN

41
‘Joven Avakumović’ Avakumović, Joven D. Memoari Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića Sremski Karlovci-Novi Sad 2008 p.587

41
‘I noticed especially’ ibid. p.589

41
‘Down with Serbia’ Dirr p.120

42
‘leap through fire’ Dinić Jovan, ‘
Stupanje u đački bataljon
’ in Đurič and Stevanović p.261

42
‘We decided on war’ Keith Wilson p.13

43
‘the man who caused the war’ ibid. p.14

43
‘if we really saw’ Thompson, Wayne C.
In the Eye of the Storm
University of Iowa Press 1980 p.74

44
‘if war should come’ ibid. p.78

44
‘In my opinion’ Hopman 6.7.14 p.383

44
‘personally, I do not’ ibid. p.385

45
‘However the Serbs’ Keith Wilson p.15

45
‘No one today can’ Mombauer pp.213–14

45
‘real success cannot’ Kronenbitter pp.485–6

46
‘war is not the worst’ Mombauer p.122

48
‘as if in competition’ quoted Verhey, Jeffrey
The Spirit of 1914
CUP 2000 p.14

48
‘Today, the balance is’ Wetterleuchten in
Danzer’s Armee-Zeitung
19 1914 No 5/6, pp.9–10

49
‘sailing under the illusion’ Poincaré, Raymond
Comment fut déclarée la Guerre de 1914
Flammarion 1939 passim

50
‘I can’t believe’ Paléologue, Maurice
An Ambassador’s Memoirs
trans. F.A. Holt NY George H. Doran 1925 p.3

50
‘I shall long remember’ ibid. p.4

50
‘It was Poincaré’ ibid. p.3

51
‘whenever we have taken’ Clark p.209

51
‘a sad wobbler’ ibid. p.266

52
‘
Monsieur le Président
’ Paléologue p.7

53
‘Between 14 and 25 July’ Hayne pp.272–3

2 THE RUSSIANS REACT

54
‘The situation is very’ Đurič and Stevanović p.48

55
‘What will Russia do?’ Strandmann.p.300

55
‘Raymond Recouly’ Recouly p.94

55
‘Everybody’s selling everything’ ibid. p.95

55
‘nobody could think’ Krafft-Krivanec, Johnanna
Niedergeschrieben für euch. Ein Kriegstagebuch aus kulturanthropologischer Perspektive
Vienna Passagen Verlag 2005 p.47 10.8.14

56
‘We are astounded’ Mihajlović 25.7.14 in Đurič and Stevanović p.26

57
‘public opinion would not’ Lieven p.143

58
‘how her family’ Emigholz, Bjorn (ed.)
Die Tagebücher der Gertrud Schädla 1914–1918
Verden 2000

59
‘In the intervening period’ Lloyd George Vol. I p.53

60
‘the parishes of Fermanagh and Tyrone’ Churchill Vol. I p.193

61
‘Russia is trying’ Asquith letter to VS 24.7.14 p.125

62
‘Sir Ernest Cassell’ Thomson, George Malcolm
Lord Castlerosse
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1973 p.35

62
‘People are relieved
’ Gide p.45 27.7.14

63
‘Jovan Žujović’ AS Jovan Žujović, enota 81.MS diary p.244

64
‘in the evening’ Riezler diary 25.7.14

64
‘Monsieur le Ministre
’ Joffre p.115 24.7.14

64
‘That night, French intelligence’ ibid. p.116

64
‘Today the fate of France’ Keith Wilson p.158

65
‘On the 26th also’
Russky Invalid
No. 164

65
‘Next day all Germans’ ibid. No. 163, 27.7.14, Sunday Section ‘The Public Life’

65
‘The officers’ mess silver’ Littauer, Vladimir
Russkie gusary
[The Russian Hussars] Moscow 2006 p.126

65
‘we noticed mobilisation’ McMeekin p.67

66
‘Once completed, a message’ GW files, private information to the author 1964

66
‘War – those letters embrace’ SB S 7 97/2-2 Kaisen MS

66
‘In spite of your “liberty’ Seligmann
Naval Intelligence
p.538

67
‘
Vorwärts
’ p.15

67
‘a wave of the highest’ Chickering pp.59–60

67
‘unthinkable, horrible’ Verhey p.20

67
‘you have your information’ Recouly p.23

68
‘It seems incredible’ Bertie, Francis
The Diary of Viscount Bertie of Thame, 1914–1918
ed. Lady Algernon Gordon Lennox Hodder & Stoughton 1924

68
‘not impossible that’ Keith Wilson p.16

68
‘its form was so very’ Stojadinović, Milan M.
Ni rat ni pakt
Otokar Kerošvani, Rijeka 1970 p.71

69
‘Lord, great merciful’ Štrandman, Vasilij N (Basil de Strandman)
Balkanske uspomene
[Balkan Memoirs]. Knjiga I., Deo 1–2, Žagor Belgrade 2009 p.329

69
‘The main preoccupation’ Joffre p.120

70
‘
Mort aux Boches!
’ Wencke, Meteling
Ehre, Einheit, Ordnung. Preußische und französische Städte und ihre Regimenter im Krieg, 1870/71 und 1914–19
Baden-Baden Nomos 2010 p.321 Derenne diary 29.7.14

70
‘We are getting ready’ Gide p.48 28.7.14

71
‘Late that night’ Clarke, Tom
My Northcliffe Diary
Gollancz 1931 p.60

71
‘Paul Cambon said later’ Recouly p.45

72
‘My darling One’ Soames, Mary
Speaking for Themselves
p.96

72
‘There is no record’ SSA Belgrade 80-7-356-7

72
‘30 July will be proclaimed’ McMeekin p.73

73
‘our prestige in the Slav world’ Lieven p.147

73
‘You commit a serious error’ ibid. p.86

73
‘They were just like’ Littauer p.127

73
‘After a last’ Knox p.39

74
‘The military measures which’ Geiss, Immanuel
July 1914
Batsford 1967 p.132

3 THE GERMANS MARCH

75
‘the press and its’ Hesse p.2

75
‘Moltke told me’ Mombauer p.118

76
‘We must appear as’ Keith Wilson p.39

76
‘The Kaiser absolutely’ ibid. p.199

77
‘There is something crude’ Asquith to VS 30.7.14 p.136

77
‘Who rules in Berlin’ Mombauer p.205

78
‘Things are hanging’ Bertie diary 30.7.14

79
‘It was like a funeral’ Flood, P.J.
France 1914–18: Public Opinion and the War Effort
Macmillan 1990 p.10

79
‘As soon as the diplomats’ Recouly p.110

79
‘Henri de Rothschild’ ibid. p.111

80
‘Only on 3 August’ Reichsarchiv
(ed.)
Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918, Vol. I
Berlin Mittler 1925 pp.104–5

81
‘I want to wage’ Mombauer p.223

81
‘Played in the garden’ Longerich, Peter
Heinrich Himmler: A Life
OUP 2011 p.19

81
‘It was a warm, sunny’ Verhey p.59

81
‘The mood is brilliant’ Keith Wilson p.39

81
‘it is dreadful’ Mombauer 14.6.15

81
‘Gottlieb Jagow’ Keith Wilson p.28

82
‘We were reconciled’ Wolff diary 17.2.15

82
‘most people were’ Verhey p.58

82
‘We were half happy’ Schädla diary 1.8.14

82
‘Now all our fears’ ibid. 19.8.14

83
‘In a highly nervous state’ Bertie diary 31.7.14

83
‘like all Parisian drivers’ Rioux, Jean-Pierre
La Dernière journée de paix
p.66

83
‘just at the moment’ ibid. p.68

83
‘As I came out’ Recouly p.114

84
‘Mobilisation is not war’ ibid. p.116

84
‘no one believed him’ ibid.

84
‘The populace is very calm’ Bertie diary 1.8.14

84
‘everything seemed strange’ Wharton, Edith
A Backward Glance
NY Appleton-Century 1934 p.336

4 THE BRITISH DECIDE

85
‘a civilised people’ Jay, John
Freud: A Life
Little Books 2006 p.347

85
‘one feels bitter’ Stumpf, Richard
Erinnerungen aus dem deutsch-englischen Seekriege auf S.M.S. Helgoland
, in:
Die Ursachen des Deutschen Zusammenbruches im Jahre 1918,
4th Series, Vol. X,
2
, Berlin Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte 1928 p.11 2.8.14

85
‘no one who was not in Paris’ Guard, William J.
The Soul of Paris: Two Months in the French Capital During the War of 1914
Sun Co. 1914 p.12

86
‘At a dinner on 31 July’ Baring, Maurice
Flying Corps Headquarters 1914–18
Buchan & Enright 1985 p.6

87
‘or rather, lack of it’ Recouly p.51

87
‘
The Economist
warned’
Economist
1.8.14

87
‘I can honestly say’ Asquith to VS 1.8.14 p.139

88
‘this was the decision’ Recouly p.55

88
‘Lloyd George sent back’ Keith Wilson p.179

88
‘At 3 p.m. on 2 August’ Recouly p.130

88
‘Let us go to mass’ ibid. p.128

89
‘small countries, such as Belgium’ Albert, King of the Belgians
Le Roi Albert à travers de ses lettres inédites 1882–1916
ed. Thielemans and Vandevoude Brussels 1982 p.85