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‘In the rear they are’ BA-MA PH 3/542 Hillern-Flinsch diary pp.70–1

528
‘Some soldiers conduct’ Hirschfeld
Kriegserfahrungen. Studien zur Sozial- und Mentalitätsgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs
, Essen Klartext 1997 p.180

528
‘When are you’ Craster p.165 22.12.14

528
‘I look at my poor’ Delvert, A.
Histoire d’une compagnie
Berger-Leverault 1918 p.164

528
‘One of the
biffins
’ Givray pp.213–14

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‘These gentlemen pass’ Cœurdevey p.45

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‘They are posted’ Hirschfeld p.185 letter of 12.9.14

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‘It is curious’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

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‘It’s odd how’ Feilding p.23

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‘My darling, today’ Hirschfeld p.32

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‘all those who go’ ibid. p.34 17.11.14

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‘I went round’ Craster p.166

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‘It’s extraordinary’ Robert P. Harker Reimann p.261

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‘We are happy’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

530
‘It was then that’ ibid.

531
‘It is impossible to believe’ Craster p.161

531
‘but he didn’t want’ ibid. p.53

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‘He dies courageously’ Laby 7.12.14

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‘The officers retired’ IWM 91/3/1 Beer MS 20.9.14

532
‘A pukka old’ Richards p.29

532
‘André Mare’ Meyer, Jacques
La Vie quotidienne des soldats pendant la Grande Guerre
Hachette 1966 pp.64–5

532
‘We no longer take’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

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‘He had also had’ Cœurdevey p.78

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‘during the pause’ Audoin-Rouzeau, Stéphane
L’Enfer c’est la boue!
p.141

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‘so we can wallow’ Hirschfeld p.34 31.12.14

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‘In this beautiful’ HStA Stuttgart, M 660/0414

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‘Poor inhabitants!’ ibid. p.175 Löwenstein letter of 4.10.14

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‘It is not only’ Becker, Annette
Oubliés de la Grand Guerre: Humanitaire et culture de guerre
Hachette Littératures Editions Noêsis 1998 pp.155–8

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‘The International Committee’ ibid. pp.181–9

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‘rude and ungrateful’ Hirschfeld p.181 letter of 24.9.14

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‘we had Germans here’ IWM 86/30/1 C. Stein papers

535
‘living at Fontaine’ Delmotte, Maurice
Vie quotidienne en France occupée: Journaux de Maurice Delmotte 1914–1918
ed. Nathalie Philippe L’Harmattan 2007 p.38

535
‘scarcely fed’ Becker, Annette p.57

535
‘After I convinced’ Gudenhus-Schomerus pp.116–17 18.10.14

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‘The people are very’ Palmer and Wallis p.29

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‘Great – you can be happy’ Hirschfeld pp.37–8 26.11.14

536
‘We eat in the magnificent’ Gerhard Hirschfeld, Gerd Krumeich and Irina Renz (eds)
Die Deutschen an der Somme 1914–1918. Krieg, Besatzung, Verbrannte Erde
. Essen Klartext 2006 pp.22–3 14.10.14

536
‘We take from the French’ Yerta, Gabrielle and Marguerite
Six Women and the Invasion
Macmillan 1917, republished as an e-book by Gutenberg p.2

537
‘has become quite’ HStA Stuttgart, M 660/041 No 2 Spemann diary 14.10.14

537
‘So this was to be’ Barthas p.66

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‘After a night’ ibid. p.72

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‘Some reservists have’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

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‘all those pictures’ Barthas pp.76–7

538
‘We are none of us’ Tapert, Annette
Despatches from the Heart
Hamish Hamilton 1984 p.16

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‘How brutal’ Englund p.64

539
‘everything becomes senseless’ Binding p.87

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‘O my lieutenant’ Laby diary 5.10.14

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‘roared like a wild’ Capes p.40

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‘An awfully nice lot’ Wilbert Spencer quoted Wolz p.185

Chapter 18 – Silent Night, Holy Night

541
‘these wretched times’ Jay p.311

541
‘Richard Meinertzhagen’ Meinertzhagen, Richard
Army Diary 1899–1926
Oliver & Boyd 1960 p.98

541
‘Everybody’s mood’ SB 7 97/2–17HS 26.12.14

542
‘The French army will not’ Soutou p.114

543
‘Falkenhayn in particular’ ibid. p.50 and passim

546
‘I and my like’ Mellersh, Henry
Schoolboy into War
London 1978 p.16

547
‘war as a military process’ Horne and Kramer p.317

547
‘It is a shame’ Churchill, Winston
My Early Life
Eland Books 2000 pp.64, 66

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548 ‘The authorities should’ Asquith to VS 26.12.14 p.340

548
‘his cheeks resemble’
Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks
p.41

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‘amazingly optimistic’ Bonham-Carter p.17

549
‘Even Kitchener’ Lords speech 18.9.14 quoted Magnus, Philip
Kitchener: Portrait of an Imperialist
Penguin 1968 p.355

549
‘A Jew, an ’Ebrew Jew’ Asquith to VS 3.11.14 p.306

550
‘volatile mind’ ibid. 5.12.14 p.327

550
‘I am uneasy about’ Lloyd George Vol. I p.356

550
‘Battles are won’ Churchill
Great War
Vol. I p.498

556
‘After midnight’ Arand, Tobias (ed.)
Die ‘Urkatastrophe’ als Erinnerung – Geschichtskultur des Ersten Weltkriegs
Münster ZfL-Verlag 2006 p.32

557
‘We wish you’ ibid. p.77

558
‘The Boches waved’ Guéno, Jean-Pierre (ed.)
Paroles de Poilus: Lettres et carnets du front 1914–1918
Librio & Radio France 1998 p.78

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‘We hope that next year’ Palmer and Wallis p.59

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‘wet and mud awful’ BNA WO95/1342

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‘It was moving’ IWM Mayer MS 80/35/1

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‘Nothing new happened’ Schneider p.215

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‘Nothing happens that deserves’ Stumpf p.33

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‘People reacted differently’ Flood p.91

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