Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (108 page)

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‘amid horrendous heat’ ASA Matija Malešič, War Diary 1914

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‘The army is beaten’ Kisch pp.59–61

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‘The road is strewn’ ASA B1600/6 AKM Pallavicini

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‘The army is beaten’ Mitrovic p.69

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‘We feel heartache’ Krafft-Krivanec p.63 17.8.14

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‘Wonderful!’ ibid. pp.75–6

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‘thirty Serb battalions’ ibid. pp.77–8 23.8.14

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‘One said that 8,000’ ibid. p.84

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‘our generals are inept’ Kisch p.64 20.8.14

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‘This represented 71 per cent’ ibid. pp.69–70

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‘[our men] suffer terribly’ Lampe p.51

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‘The heart stops’ Krafft-Krivanec p.85 24.8.14

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‘The impression made’ Lampe p.50

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‘Everyone lapsed from’ Kisch pp.77–9 29.8.14

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‘Austrian officers responded’ ibid. p.79 29.8.14

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‘is indeed the best’ ibid. pp.92–3

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‘welcomed Serbian troops’ Đurič and Stevanović pp.250–1

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‘Sir E. Grey presents’ SSA, Belgrade 10-7-419

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‘Every unit was provided’ Kisch p.73

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‘Water doesn’t feel’ ibid. p.94 7.9.14

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‘Of Kisch’s platoon’ ibid. pp.98–9

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‘How hungry I am’ ASA MS Matija Malešič, War Diary 1914

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‘Our Serbs fight’ Mitrovic p.75

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‘Such an order’ ASA B 609 Bachmann MS

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‘because they too can’ ibid.

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‘first came a strong guard’ ibid. 15.10

Chapter 5 – Death with Flags and Trumpets

1 THE EXECUTION OF PLAN XVII

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‘The dust clung’ Lintier, Paul
My Seventy-Five: The Journal of a French Gunner
Peter Davies 1929 p.28

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‘It is critical that’ Herwig, Holger
The First World War: Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–18
Arnold 1997 p.35

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‘As line after line’ Herwig, Holger
The Marne
Random House 2009 p.111

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‘Next day schoolchildren’ Kuhr, Elfriede
There We’ll Meet Again: The First World War Diary of a Young German Girl
Gloucester 1998 p.31 7.8.14

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‘stupor and tranquillity’ Gudenhus-Schomerus pp.53–4

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‘But then I shan’t’ ibid. p.61 20.8.14

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‘You cannot think’ IWM 99/41/1 MS Letters Madame Jeanne van Bleyenberghe

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‘When the local burgomaster’ Horne, John and Kramer, Alan
German Atrocities 1914: A History of Denial
Yale 2001 passim

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‘It doesn’t matter’ ibid. p.17

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‘Graf Harry Kessler’ Kessler, Harry Graf
Das Tagebuch Vol. V 1914–1916
ed. Günter Riederer and Ulrich Ott Cotta Stuttgart 2008 p.87

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‘Ruthless destruction’ Schwarte, Max (ed.),
Technik des Kriegswesens
Leipzig Berlin B.G. Teubner 1913 p.115

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‘That’s what happened’ Blond, Georges
La Marne
Presses de la Cité 1962 p.23

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‘Pte. Charles Stein’ IWM papers of C Stein 86/30/1

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‘A company of German reservists’ Mahnke, Dietrich
Kriegstaten und Schicksale des Res.-Inf.-Regiments 75 1914/18
Bremen 1932 p.17

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‘They really look like’ Gudenhus-Schomerus p.66 28.8.14

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‘This difference in visibility’ Miguel, Pierre
L’Année 14
pp.104–5

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‘They told me that’ Herwig
Marne
p.78

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‘in an indescribable disorder’ Miguel p.110

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‘In the evening news spread’ Krafft-Krivanec p.183

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‘For so long’ SB S7 Kaisen Collection, 97/2–3

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‘Millions of men’ Rivière, Jacques
Carnets 1914–1918
ed. Isabelle and Alain Rivière, Pub. Fayard 1974 p.16

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‘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

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‘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

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‘A countess’ Strong p.49

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‘a sublime chaos’ Clayton, Anthony
Paths of Glory: The French Army 1914–1916
p.24

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‘something struck my knee’ Lacouture p.30

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‘I can still hear’ Blond p.20

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‘Frenchmen must look’ Bertie diary 5.11.14

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‘The battle was lost’ Lintier p.60

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‘Mown down’ ibid. p.25

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‘Exhausting week’ Cœurdevey, Edouard
Carnets de guerre 1914–1918: Un témoin lucide
Plon 2008 23.8.14

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‘5 a.m. movement order’ ibid.

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‘theatrical and a great error’ Bertie diary 10.9.14

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‘The Mulhouse business’ Gide diary 4.9.14

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‘There can be no talk’ Herwig
War
p.89

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‘Jacques Rivière’s regiment’ Rivière pp.20, 30, 31, 46

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‘It was finished’ ibid. pp.33, 39

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‘From that comes’ ibid. p.42

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‘With us, the army’ ibid. 8.9.14 p.80

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‘Even before the
fight’ Jones, Heather et al. (eds)
Untold War: New Perspectives in First World War Studies
Leiden 2008 p.29

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‘Lieutenant, will we’ Herwig Marne p.100

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‘What good things’ IWM 09/65/1 Papers of Sir James Stubblefield

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‘We civilians know’ SB 7, 97/2–17

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‘decked itself out’ Chickering
Urban Life
p.431

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‘An elderly dowager’ Strong p.100

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‘I think that the French’ Bertie diary 16.8.14

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‘There is much more’ ibid. 31.8.14

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‘We soldiers were usually’ Flood p.51

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‘Louis Barthas’ Barthas pp.19–20

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‘Self-evidently’ ibid. p.88

2 ‘GERMAN BEASTLINESS’

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‘Our cavalry patrols’ Horne and Kramer p.96

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‘all soldiers are comrades’ Rivière p.35

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‘It is utter rot’ Wolz, Nicolas
Das lange Warten. Kriegserfahrungen deutscher und britischer Seeoffiziere 1914 bis 1918
Schöningh Paderborn 2008 pp.354–5

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‘An American in Paris’ Gide 15.11.14

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‘We fought the Guard Corps’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers

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‘It seems to be universally’
New Statesman
10.10.14

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‘the clamour of’ Holroyd p.447

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‘We can state’ Horne and Kramer p.419

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‘Our soldiers have been’ ibid. p.36

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‘Decidedly, I do not like’ Knoch, Peter (ed.)
Menschen im Krieg 1914–1918
, Ludwigsburg Pädagogische Hochschule 1987 p.78

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‘Harry Graf Kessler’ Kessler 22.8.14

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‘We pushed on’ ibid. p.47

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‘Russian atrocities have’ ibid. p.80

3 LANREZAC ENCOUNTERS SCHLIEFFEN

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‘As if at manoeuvres’ Spears p.134

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‘they were like eager children’ ibid. p.135

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‘[a] most dangerous person’ Jackson, Julian
The Fall of France
OUP 2003 p.91

Chapter 6 – The British Fight

1 MONS

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‘Last mile ½ battalion’ IWM 07/63/1Harcourt-Vernon MS

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‘No longer was it’ Harding Davis, Richard
With the Allies
Duckworth 1915 p.22

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‘These French people’ Craster J.M. (ed.)
Fifteen Rounds a Minute
Macmillan 1976 p.23

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‘All day men have been’ IWM 07/63/1

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‘When he personally’ GW interview transcript

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‘There was no hatred’ Bridges, Sir Tom
Alarms and Excursions
Longman 1938 p.73

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‘I said to this’ BBC Home Service radio broadcast 23.8.54

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‘Funny to notice’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS

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‘They were in solid’ Terraine, John
Mons
Batsford 1960 p.91

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‘God! How their artillery’ Ascoli p.92

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‘The men were digging’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe papers

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‘it was too late’ ibid.

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‘Our faithful gunners’ ibid.

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‘A very trying day’ IWM 88/52/1 Edgington papers

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‘masses of grey-clad’ Sheffield
The Chief
p.72

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‘if Sgt. —’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe MS

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‘You are the
only’ Wencke p.224

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‘the spirit of victory’ Zuber p.132

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‘Gentlemen, please’ ibid. p.136

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‘even had time to think’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe MS

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‘Our troops advance’ Longerich p.20 24.8.14

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‘a long and trying march’ Craster p.37

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‘most disheartening’ ibid. p.39

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‘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

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‘The whole way back’ Rose narrative, Journal of the Wiltshire Regiment

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‘But who will feed’ Spears p.319

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‘It makes you cry’ IWM 99/41/1 Madame Jeanne van Bleyenberghe correspondence

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‘their guard does not’ Haig p.65

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‘I like most others’ Craster pp.44–6

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‘D.H. had … been’ ASC1938

2 LE CATEAU: ‘WHERE THE FUN COMES IN, I DON’T KNOW’

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‘That evening their colonel’ ASC1938 Bird Narrative

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‘You needn’t bother’ ASC 1938 Edmonds letter 11.5.33

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‘Don’t call a’ ibid.

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‘everyone spoke in’ Spears p.228

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‘The sense of doom’ ibid. p.230

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‘It was perhaps’ ibid. p.233

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‘to me it was a period’ ASC1938 Murray letter of 18.12.30

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‘[the airmen’s] maps were black’ Baring p.25

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‘A sun-baked drowsy’ Spears p.235

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‘Salisbury Plain’ Ascoli p.97

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‘At the outset’ Priestley, R.E.
The Signal Service in the European War of 1914–18
W. and J. Mackay 1921 p.33

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‘On your feet!’ Cave and Sheldon
Le Cateau
p.40

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‘An hour later’ ASC1938 Bird narrative

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‘[He] was most anxious’ ASC1938 Arthur Hildebrand letter of 21.12.30

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‘It is impossible to miss’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers

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‘I did not think’ Ascoli p.100

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‘We could see a [British]’ Cave and Cowley p.52

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‘too terrible for words’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor papers

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‘Capt. R.G. Beaumont’ ASC1938 Beaumont letter

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‘we sat there talking’ IWM 89/7/1 Wollocombe papers

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‘At the same time’ Cave and Sheldon p.76

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‘I have lost my’ ibid. p.106

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‘what we want to do’ ASC 1938 Bird narrative

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‘which left me pretty well’ Ascoli p.105

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‘About 2.30 the situation’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor letter of 2.9.14

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‘however, we retired’ IWM HET/1 P229 Trevor letter of 14.9.14

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‘It was a wonderful sight’ Terraine p.152

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‘I must warn you’ ASC1938 Bird narrative

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‘Our losses had been’ Cave and Sheldon p.80

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‘In the British centre’ ASC1938 Major C.M. Usher Narrative

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‘The British had withdrawn’ Cave and Sheldon p.100

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‘but the British also’ ibid. p.163

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‘No news of II Corps’ ASC1938 Edmonds letter 11.5.33

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‘I fancy Haig’ ibid.

Chapter 7 – The Retreat

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‘marched to St. Quentin’ IWM 88/52/1 Edgington diary

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‘behaving in a scandalous’ Babington, Anthony
For the Sake of Example
Leo Cooper 1983 p.6

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‘Marches are much slower’ IWM 07/63/1 Harcourt-Vernon MS

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‘The chief’ Clarke p.67

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‘They were acting’ BNA WO95/1347

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‘We had to wait’ H. Goatham taped interview transcript, GW files

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‘despite the fact that’ Macarthur, Brian
For King and Country
Little, Brown 2008 p.21

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‘
Les anglais sont
’ Baring p.28

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‘quite calm, approachable’ ASC1938 HS Jeudwine letter

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‘it was the old story’ Craster p.50

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‘In six weeks’ Reichsarchiv (ed.),
Der Weltkrieg 1914–1918
, Vol. I Berlin Mittler 1925 p.440

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‘One is already beginning’ Thompson p.98

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‘We Germans have’ ibid. p.106

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‘the French considered’ Spears p.250

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‘He manipulated his units’ ibid. p.269

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‘A French officer gleefully’ ibid. pp.339–40

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‘I stand bad news’ Smith, Leonard et al.
France and the Great War 1914–1918
trans. Helen McPhail CUP 2003 p.41

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‘It is one of the worst’ Harris p.44

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‘The Germans did not’ Craster p.56

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‘Do you know that’ Thomson p.45