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‘If ever a German’ ibid.
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‘They’ve got their cavalry’ Craster p.57
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‘The departure was a’ Terraine p.193
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‘We didn’t know where’ Ascoli p.140
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‘the damned French army’ ASC1938 Harper letter 8.9.14
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‘which all seems to point’ IWM 88/51/1 Edgington diary
Chapter 8 – Tannenberg: ‘Alas, How Many Thousands Lie There Bleeding!’
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‘Russian society had not’ Kondurashkin p.8
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‘Think of me’ Knox p.46
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‘you soldiers ought’ ibid. p.45
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‘big, red-bearded’ ibid. p.103
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‘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
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‘a hundred half-savage’ Reed p.186
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‘When a Russian officer’ Ksyunin p.5
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‘The Belobeevsky infantry’ Samborn, Josh
Daily Life in Russian Poland
p.49
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‘soldiers knew that’ ibid. p.50
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‘in the guise of buying’ Samborn, Josh
Unsettling the Russian Empire
p.304
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‘with the goal’ ibid. p.305
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‘After occupying Kalitz’ Samborn
Poland
p.52
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‘Where can we’ Palmer and Wallis p.36
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‘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
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‘Nikolai Gumilev’ Gumilev, Nikolai
Zapiski Kavalerista
[Diaries of a Cavalryman] Moscow 2007 p.23
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‘Johann Sczuka’ Borck/Sczuka p.17
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‘On their wanderings’ ibid. p.18
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‘Capt. Lazarev’ Littauer p.136
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‘But it is
only’ Kondurashkin p.41
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‘the soldiers were relieved’ Littauer p.137
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‘We didn’t know’ ibid. p.129
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‘a cavalryman is used’ ibid. p.138
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‘Vladimir Littauer’ ibid. p.144
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‘Two Hussar squadrons’ ibid.
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‘He rebuked’ Borck/Sczuka p.21
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‘savagely mauled’ Pohlmann p.282
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‘not a stone’ Mihaly pp.32, 55
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‘This town is completely’ Kessler p.106
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‘Prittwitz’s staff’ Reichsarchiv (ed.)
Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918
Vol. II Berlin Mittler 1925 p.321
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‘Where do you’ Knox p.59
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‘Officials at the post office’ Reichsarchiv p.324
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‘The position is very’ Knox p.87
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‘he did not know’ ibid. p.74
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‘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
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‘To gain this critical’ Reichsarchiv Vol. II p.243
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‘The Kaiser, with his’ Herwig
Marne
p.xvi
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‘Our hearts are full’ Schädla diary 31.8.14
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‘The Emperor trusted’ Knox p.82
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‘that it does not matter’ ibid. p.80
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‘Passing through Johannisberg’ Reed p.119
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‘An elderly couple’ Borck/Sczuka pp.26–7
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‘Loyal Germans all’ ibid. p.23
Chapter 9 – The Hour of Joffre
1 PARIS AT BAY
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‘More than 50,000 people’ Guard p.9
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‘The Parc de Belleville’ ibid. p.66
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‘It was considered’ ibid. p.39
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‘The five hundred men’ Bertie diary 16.8.145
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‘Many domestic titles’ ibid. pp.10, 12, 15, 21, 45
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‘I wonder he doesn’t’ Painter p.224
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‘From what mad optimism’ Gide 25.8.14
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‘The Germans seem sure’ Bertie diary 30.8.14
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‘Bertie complained’ ibid. 3.9.14
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‘it is sad to see’ quoted Englund, Peter
The Beauty and the Sorrow
Bloomsbury 2011 p.73
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‘evidently a very’ Lloyd George p.154
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‘Gallieni had retired’ Gallieni, Joseph
Mémoires du Maréchal Gallieni: Défense de Paris, 25 Aout–11 Septembre 1914
Paris Payot 1928
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‘One afternoon a crowd’ Strong p.128
2 SIR JOHN DESPAIRS
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‘Ah, Napoleon’Lloyd George Vol. I p.156
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‘showed little interest’ Spears p.312
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‘Our people have done’ Asquith to VS 27.8.14 p.215
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‘The Belgians … are really’ Asquith to VS 25.8.14 p.195
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‘It is extraordinary’ Bonham-Carter p.216
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‘If [the] French cannot’ IWM papers of N. Macleod 05/63/1
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‘our men had done’ ibid.
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‘Published first British’ Clarke p.68
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‘One proclaimed
himself’ Guard p.107
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‘Norman Macleod’ IWM 05/63/1 3.9.14 Macleod papers
3 SEEDS OF HOPE
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‘Uncertainty about British’ Terraine p.216
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‘On the night of 31 August’ Spears p.316
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‘The great towering cuirassiers’ ibid.
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‘Gen. Joseph de Maistre’ ibid. p.319
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‘They looked like ghosts’ ibid. p.318
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‘The mayor of a hamlet’ Lintier p.43
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‘Above all they have’ Hirschfeld letter of 12.9.14 p.180
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‘I was seized by’ Sulzbach p.26
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‘One of our lorries’ IWM 06/61/1 Hacker diary 22.8.14
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‘I wonder if that’ Harcourt-Vernon MS IWM 07/63/1
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‘On 3 September, Gallieni’ Gallieni p.68
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‘his head reminded me’ Spears p.384
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‘He refuses a blindfold’ Allard, Capitaine Jules
Journal d’un gendarme 1914–1916
Présentation d’Arlette Farge Bayard Éditions 2010 p.60
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‘Joffre spent’ Spears p.394
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‘The French are most’ Haig p.68
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‘we could hold a position’ ibid.
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‘his black uniform’ Spears p.401
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‘Unshaved, and scarcely’ Bloem, Walter
The Advance From Mons 1914
Peter Davies 1930 p.101
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‘Charles Péguy’ Smith et al. p.41
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‘Here was a vivid’ Painter p.222
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‘At once he began’ Spears p.414
Chapter 10 – The Nemesis of Moltke
1 THE MARNE
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‘a small active man’ Haig p.104
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‘Lt. Paul Tuffnau’ Palmer and Wallis p.26
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‘It was extraordinary’ Flood p.51
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‘we passed Jimmy Rothschild’s’ Tennyson IWM 76/21/1
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‘Orders to the provost-marshal’ Corns and Hughes-Wilson p.119
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‘The most exciting thing’ Baring p.54
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‘Have all taxis’ Blond p.172
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‘ploughing its way’ Lintier p.71
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‘Never mind’ Blond p.186
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‘At the attack on Etrepilly’ ibid. p.193
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‘Our pursuit could not’ Bridges p.94
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‘everyone much more’ William Edgington IWM 88/52/1
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‘It’s a precious slow’ Craster p.76
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‘heavy defeat’ Sheffield p.83
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‘his nerve is wonderful’ Tennyson MS IWM 76/21/1
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‘What’s that?’ Lintier p.156
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‘This could not be’ Herwig
The Marne
pp.302–3
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‘rumours have reached’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS 17.9.14
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‘My God, how could’ ibid. p.302
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‘The nervousness’ Mombauer p.264
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‘The army blamed’ Strachan p.262
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‘Following a report’
Stahl und Steckrüben
pp.365–6
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‘This much is
certain’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.87 23.9.14
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‘Gertrud Schädla’ Schädla diary 3.9.14
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‘The general news’ Grey to Percy Illingworth 14.9.14 Illingworth papers
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‘The enemy will not’ Lacouture p.31
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‘This would be’ Cœurdevey pp.35–6
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‘The whole situation’ Hopman 15.9.14 p.43
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‘incredible folly’ ibid. 17.9.14 p.439
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‘we have experienced’ Desfontaines p.133
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‘The massive, historic’ Reichsarchiv Vol. IV p.270
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‘The army was not defeated’ Ludendorff
Das Marne-Drama
Munich 1934 p.1
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‘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’
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‘Everything is going well’ Harris p.50
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‘I am deeply thankful’ Spears p.469
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‘As a man I do not’ IWM 76/21/1 Tennyson MS
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‘The advance proceeded’ Kendall, Paul
Aisne 1914: The Dawn of Trench Warfare
Spellmount 2012 p.342
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‘We had an awful’ ibid. p.99
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‘It is a terrible place’ ibid. p.152
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‘We stop a lot of’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS
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‘I tried to sleep’ Craster p.89
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‘Meanwhile the bodies’ ibid. p.90
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‘A week ago … we’ Harris p.63
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‘We were subject to’ Craster p.94
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‘The men are splendid’ ibid. p.96
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‘Major Zeppelin’ Knoch p.78
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‘in this war the last’ Guard p.125
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‘it was impossible to rely’ Haig p.70
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‘On the 20th he’ ibid. p.72
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‘Had we but known’ Kendall p.344
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‘Troops are beginning’ IWM T.H. Cubbon
352
‘I have seen attacks’ SB S7, 97/2–3 Kaisen collection
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‘Fancy a thousand’
New York Times
13.9.14
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‘one does not take’ Reimann, Aribert
Der große Krieg der Sprachen. Untersuchungen zur historischen Semantik in Deutschland und England zur Zeit des Ersten Weltkrieges
, Essen Klartext 2000 p.181 4.10.14
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‘it is terrible’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.89 21.9.14
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‘We are so benumbed’ Kresten Andresen quoted Englund p.30
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‘On 16 September, Sir John’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS
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‘I think the battle’ Royal Archives GV Q832/72
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‘This trench- and siege-warfare’ Herwig
The Marne
p.216
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‘One day very like’ Craster p.103
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‘It beats me’ Guest to Percy Illingworth 21.9.14 Illingworth papers
Chapter 11 – ‘Poor Devils, They Fought Their Ships Like Men’
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‘The living spaces’ Hipper diary 7.9.14, Wolz p.203
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‘Very great excitement’ ibid. p.99
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‘If it comes off’ ibid.
357
‘One profound’ Young, Filson
With the Battlecruisers
Cassell 1921 p.121
357
‘The German “High Seas Fleet”’ Wolz p.344
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‘Following the outbreak’ Seligmann
New Weapons for New Targets
p.328
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‘Boredom feeds depression’ Stumpf p.14 13.8.14
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‘Everywhere people
express’ ibid. p.15
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‘On 9 August, a German’ ibid. p.13
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‘This … was a salutary’ Wolz diary p.115 21.8.14
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‘Morale slides because’ ibid. p.100
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‘The naval mind was’ Young p.54
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‘It does not make us’ Knobloch diary p.328 22.8.14
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‘She [the
Emden
] is undoubtedly’ Wolz p.357 24.10.14
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‘The Navy are very bad’ Shelden, Michael
Young Titan
Simon & Schuster 2013 p.300
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‘At Coblenz on 18 August’ Hopman p.411
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‘It was quite clear’ Young p.84
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‘If he does that’ ibid. p.85
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‘They Want to Starve’ Healey, Maureen
Vienna and the Fall of the Hapsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I
CUP 2004 p.38
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‘They control the oceans’ Wolz p.345 25.8.14
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‘If we were to risk’ ibid. p.100
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‘The dark shapes’ Young p.126
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‘I would have preferred’ Wolz p.121
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‘The least informed’ Young p.120
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‘In the clear seawater’ Palmer and Wallis p.234
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‘young, distinguished-looking’ Young p.6
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‘the most publicised’ Gordon, Andrew
The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command
John Murray 1996 p.27
368
‘I see no reason’ Seligmann
Naval Intelligence
p.517
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‘I always had a feeling’ Wolz p.332 22.10.14
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‘Every salvo they’ Bywater, Hector
Cruisers in Battle
p.56
370
‘A most extraordinary’ King-Hall, Stephen
A North Sea Diary 1914–1918
pp.54–5
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‘She had settled’ Bywater p.57
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‘As we approached’ Chatfield, Lord Ernle
The Navy and Defence: An Autobiography
Heinemann 1942 p.125
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‘a brilliant episode’ Churchill
Great War
Vol. I p.306