Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (111 page)

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‘French journalists’ ibid. p.67

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‘the nightingale of’ Becker
The Great War and the French People
p.162

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‘
Poilus
, rejecting’ ibid. pp.57–8

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‘Our Brandenburgers’
Oder-Zeitung
14.11.14

440
‘The war was presented’ Becker p.43

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‘The story of “the little’ Healey p.230

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‘an extremely nice’
The Lady
3.12.14

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‘To know anything’ Young p.32

Chapter 14 – Open Country, Open Sky

1 CHURCHILL’S ADVENTURE

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‘Dragoons from Darmstadt’ Sulzbach p.32

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‘it is something’ ibid. p.33

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‘If Joffre be victorious’ Bertie diary 1.10.14

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‘We heard the guns’ IWM 99/41/1 Van Bleyenberghe letters 24.9.14

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‘What are we going’
Daily Mail
31.8.14

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‘Among the garrison’ IWM 91/3/1 Beer MS

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‘We needed all our’ ibid.

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‘Our third night’ ibid.

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‘Our exodus is’ Festing MS p.55

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‘He inspected’ ibid. p.62

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‘the delivery of this’ ibid. p.69

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‘military training in’ ibid. p.10

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‘Next day, his brigadier’ ibid. p.74

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‘Evening soon comes’ Beer MS IWM 91/3/1

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‘I don’t think I have’ Festing MS p.84

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‘the devil himself’ ibid. p.85

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‘the Germans suddenly’ IWM P404 Baroness de T’Serclaes MS

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‘
Il ne faut pas
’ Bonham Carter p.12 18.10.14

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‘Darling father’ ibid. p.11

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‘Antwerp was a’ Churchill
Great War
p.336

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‘Looking back’ ibid. p.292

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‘one would have thought’ Festing MS p.95

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‘Should this narrative’ ibid. p.2

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‘W is an ex-lieutenant’ Asquith letter to VS 5.10.14 p.263

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‘Norman Macleod’ IWM 05/63/1 Macleod papers

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‘our friend [Churchill]’ Gilbert, Martin
Winston S. Churchill
Vol. III p.120

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‘read like a story’ IWM 05/63/1 Macleod papers

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‘Feeling of depression’ ibid.

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‘The Belgian troops have’ Feilding p.10 letter of 10.10.14

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‘we all admire’ IWM 99/41/1 Van Bleyenberghe MS

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‘too late to have’ Dunn p.69

2 ‘INVENTIONS OF THE DEVIL’

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‘While contemplating’ Gebsattel pp.22–3

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‘soon outstrip’ Hesse p.20

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‘When these inventions’ Strachan p.233

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‘I think, sir’ Bridges p.80

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‘German staff regulations’ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, Abt. IV Kriegsarchiv Bavarian Central Archive, Munich, IV. Dept. War Archive HS3180

457
‘Members of the RFC’ Winter, Denis
First of the Few
Penguin 1982 p.18

458
‘The French, alone’ Clayton p.233

458
‘French biplanes flew at’ Rougevin-Baville, Col. J.
Revue historique de l’armée Ministère des armées 1964: L’aéronautique militaire française, les débuts de la guerre aérienne 1914
p.6

458
‘beautiful little birds’ Mayne MS IWM 81/26/1

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‘It is a strange’ Stenitzer p.56 2.12.14

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‘when any aircraft’ IWM 80/35/1 Mayer MS

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‘a dreadful sight’ Craster p.118

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‘Three Austrian planes’ ibid. p.59 29.8.14

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‘I remember the clicking’ Baring p.50

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‘Charles Stein’s’ IWM 86/30/1 Stein papers

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‘I have had some’ Goebel, Stefan
The Great War and Medieval Memory: War, Remembrance and Medievalism in Britain and Germany, 1914–1940
CUP 2007 p.70

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‘Caroll Dana Winslow’ Winslow, Carroll Dana
With the French Flying Corps
Charles Scribner’s Sons 1917 p.19

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‘When they make’ Palmer and Wallis p.36

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‘When I grow up’ Gudehus-Schomerus p.157 24.11.14

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‘the war should not’ ibid. p.170 30.11.44

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‘Rudolf Martin’ Martin, Rudolf
Stehen wir vor einem Weltkrieg?
Leipzig Engelmann 1908

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‘Germany started aerial’ Kehrt pp.192–3

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‘It exploded but not’ Baring p.44

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‘We are fortunate’ Boyle p.209

Chapter 15 – Ypres: ‘Something that was Completely Hopeless’

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‘we heard Antwerp’ IWM Tennyson MS

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‘A month ago everyone’
New Statesman
10.10.14

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‘they all jumped up’ IWM 86/30/1 C. Stein papers

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‘the whole population fleeing’ IWM 91/3/1 Beer MS

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‘The incessant stream of’ IWM 82/26/1

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‘Our cars were going’ Feilding p.20

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‘The Belgians have never’ Craster p.106

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‘that is the soul’ Givray pp.191–3 12.10.14

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‘rather a nice’ Craster pp.108, 111

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‘We are getting’ Macdonald, Lynn
1914
Michael Joseph 1987 p.357

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‘Allied prisoners, when they’ Baring p.54

472
‘Everywhere we advance’ Craster p.107

472
‘It is all rot’ ibid. p.111

472
‘we looked a ragtime’ Richards, Frank
Old Soldiers Never Die
Mott 1983 p.31

472
‘Little did we think’ ibid. p.34

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‘native infantry were no’ ibid. p.39

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‘We are the Coldstream!’ BNA WO95/1342

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‘it is too much like’ Craster p.132

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‘they came on in’ BNA WO95/1348

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‘Lionel Tennyson’ IWM Tennyson MS p.121

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‘Churchill wrote of’ Churchill
Great War
Vol. I p.378

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‘I did not imagine’ Cocho, Paul
Mes Carnets de guerre et de prisonnier 1914–1919
Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2010 pp.8, 19

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‘
Il faut absolument
’ Craster p.113

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‘Maria, this sort’ Palmer and Wallis p.29

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‘Sgt. Gustav Sack’ Hirschfeld p.29

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‘everything is quite’ ibid. p.30

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‘I am freezing!’ ibid. p.31 2.11.14

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‘A great grey mass’ Macarthur p.43

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‘Every man … was exhausted’ Macdonald p.368

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‘what awful sights’ ibid. p.370

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‘By 4 p.m. the bulk’ Haig p.75

480
‘It must be clearly’ Hamilton, Ernest
The First Seven Divisions
Hurst & Blackett 1916, p.83

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‘My dear Maria’ Palmer and Wallis p.33

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‘A perfect hurricane’ IWM88/52/1 Edgington diary

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‘They weren’t an organized’ Macdonald p.398

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‘We got the guns out’ ibid. p.389

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‘We had no idea’ ibid. pp.396–7

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‘crowds of fugitives’ Haig p.83 4.12.14

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‘they made no attempt’ Macdonald p.399

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‘His kilt in rags’ Maze, Paul
A Frenchman in Khaki
Heinemann 1934 p.75

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‘I’m afraid your division’ Craster p.125

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‘serious-faced men’ IWM 82/26/1 Mayne MS

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‘The news from’ Lacouture p.32

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‘We could see’ Craster p.127

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‘It came on’ ibid. p.128

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‘I suppose one’ ibid. p.129

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‘When I think’ ibid. p.140

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‘very shaky even’ ibid. p.131

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‘The Lincolns, Northumberland’ Haig p.78

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‘It struck me that’ ibid. p.81

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‘We hold on’ Craster p.134

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‘Everybody in a panic’ IWM T.H. Cubbon diary

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‘Cpl. William Holbrook’ Macdonald p.418

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‘Doesn’t it look’ ibid. p.420

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‘Attacks repeated with’ BNA WO95/1342

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‘This wet is hell’ Feilding p.32

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‘Churchill referred afterwards’ Churchill
Great War
Vol. I p.325

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‘Out of the 1,100’ Macdonald p.421

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‘The noise of the guns’ Craster p.119

Chapter 16 – ‘War Becomes the Scourge of Mankind’

1 POLAND

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‘Here everything is’ Hoffman p.57 8.10.14

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‘We have been too long’ Groß, Gerhard P. (ed.)
Die vergessene Front. Der Osten 1914/15
. Ereignis, Wirkung, Nachwirkung Paderborn Schöningh 2006

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‘Tomo Župan’ Dr Tomo Župan NUK/R, Ms 1390, m. 29, Spominji XXVII

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‘Many more men’ NUK/R, Ivan Vrhovnik, Ms 1207, m.74

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‘For God’s sake’ Schneider pp.138–40

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‘they walked with shaky’ ibid. pp.144–5

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‘Faced with a crippling’ ibid. p.154

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‘At first the War Ministry’ Biwald pp.534–5

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‘As a further consequence’ ibid. pp.261–2

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‘Czech officers were’ Tolstoy, A.
In Volyn
p.371

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‘notwithstanding the fact’ Samborn
Mobilization
p.288

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‘I would have liked’ Hoffman diary p.58

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‘waterlogged trenches’ Koenigswald p.26 26.10.14

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‘Your Excellency!’ Knox p.205

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‘On the evening of the 23rd’ Reichsarchiv Vol. II pp.152–226

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‘it seemed as if’ Schneider pp.210–11

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‘This news gave’ ibid. p.212

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‘the defeated … do not see’ ibid. p.200 20.11.14

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‘Any victories gained’ Hoffman diary p.58

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‘a minor curiosity’ Cole, Laurence, Hämmerle, Christa and Scheutz, Martin (eds)
Glanz – Gewalt – Gehorsam. Militär und Gesellschaft in der Habsburgermonarchie (1800 bis 1918)
Essen Klartext 2011 pp.55–76, citing Angelique Leszczawski-Schwerk

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‘In the course of 1914’ Schneider p.239

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‘War becomes the scourge’ Zeynek p.192

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‘The scene was fantastic’ ibid. p.202

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‘the strategic defeat’ Groß p.55

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‘A government agent’ Figes, Orlando
A People’s Tragedy
Cape 1996 p.258

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‘Right dress!’ Tolstoy p.377

2 THE SERBS’ LAST TRIUMPH

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‘If we do not get’ Slavka Mihajlović 17.11.14 in Đurič and Stevanović p.141

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‘Making war means’ Kronenbitter p.107

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‘They say that he’ Kisch p.185 6.11.14

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‘News that the brave’ Mihajlović 6.11.14 in Đurič and Stevanović p.149

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‘Incredible cold’ ibid. p.151 16.11.14

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‘On the walls’ Kisch pp.174–5

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‘All those chaps’ ibid. pp.195–7 13.11.14

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‘our own troubles’ ibid. p.198

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‘We no longer have’ ASA B729 Wüster MS

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‘with infantry dispersed’ ibid. 4.12.14

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‘By the time the soldiers’ Kisch p.239 16.12.14

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‘Anger and mistrust’ ASA B1600/7 Alex Pallavicini MS

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‘The doctor had to’ ASA Bachmann MS

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‘I am sad’ Reed p.86

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‘What are these French’ ibid. p.49

Chapter 17 – Mudlife

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‘who must face’ Schädla diary 1.11.14

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‘In those early’ Richards p.41

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‘in this kind’ Reimann p.180 letter of 26.11.14

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‘a most extraordinary’ IWM Tennyson MS 2.10.14

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‘Some eggs’ IWM Mayne MS 81/26/1

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‘thus they cannot’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

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‘Our chief work’ Craster p.161

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‘They have all sorts’ Robert P. Harker 6.11.14, Reimann p.240

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‘They describe lying’ Barthas pp.43, 45

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‘infantrymen felled by’ Naegelen R.
Les Suppliciés
Paris 1927 p.89

519
‘As matters stand’ Binding, Rudolf
A Fatalist at War
p.69

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‘One of our companies’ Cowan letters, private collection

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‘Sergeant Swinchat’ IWM Tennyson MS 25.9.14

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‘I said we wanted’ Haig p.83

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‘would amount to the sacrifice’
New Statesman
14.11.14

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‘I have seen the government’ Clarke pp.70–1

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‘The enormous wastage’ Blenkinsop, Maj.-Gen. Sir L.J. et al.
History of the Great War: Veterinary Services
HMSO 1925 p.71

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‘The BEF’s horses and mules’ ibid. p.510

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‘Vets catalogued examples’ ibid. p.703

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‘Veterinary officers … foresaw’ ibid. p.64

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‘Among a bunch’ ibid. p.175

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‘René Cassin’ Winter p.63

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‘that a giraffe’ Richards p.45

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‘Lt. Adolf Spemann’ HStA Stuttgart, M 660/041 No 2 Spemann diary 6.11.14

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‘What is this conflict’ Lacouture p.32

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‘The French abandoned’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.173 3.12.14

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‘Please note that’ Barluet, Alain
Les Fraternisations de Noël
pp.171–2

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‘Louis Barthas’ Barthas p.40

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‘he really hit’ SB S7, 97/2–3 Kaisen collection

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‘The war is like a cinema’ Ziemann, Benjamin
War Experiences in Rural Germany 1914–23
OUP 2007 p.44