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"You and I can't talk": Cecil, p. 252.

[>] "every troop or regiment": George Lansbury, Sixty-four, Ninety-four, quoted in Caroline Playne, Society at War, 1914–1916 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931), p. 58.

[>] "Suddenly from the enemy": Vorwärts, January 1915, quoted in Brown and Seaton, p. 90.

"The Germans came out": Anonymous, Times, 2 January 1915.

[>] played games of soccer: Although there are no photographs of these games among those of the truce, Brown and Seaton, pp. 142–147, consider the various pieces of evidence and conclude that some kicking about of soccer balls, both real and makeshift, did take place.

"We marked the goals": Brown and Seaton, p. 145.

"Have you no German": Weintraub, p. 71.

"Soldiers should have": Field-Marshal Viscount French of Ypres, 1914 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), quoted in Brown and Seaton, p. 166.

"Why are men who can": Merthyr Pioneer, 9 January 1915.

10. THIS ISN'T WAR

[>] "county men of position": Field-Marshal Viscount French of Ypres, 1914 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919), p. 301.

[>] "at some points in the trench": Blunden, pp. 11, 49.

"Spent the morning": Macdonald 2, p. 19.

[>] "I've a little wet home": Macdonald 2, p. 29.

"This afternoon we went": Times, 23 January 1915.

[>] "thinks he may be": French Diary, 8 March 1915, quoted in Holmes, p. 274.

"The Germans were shooting": Macdonald 2, p. 102.

[>] "the defeat of the enemy": John French, The Despatches of Lord French (London: Chapman & Hall, 1917), p. 23, quoted in Holmes, p. 272.

"If these two had": Haig 1, 11 April 1915, pp. 114–115.

[>] "the peace-at-any-price crowd": Minneapolis Daily News, 30 March 1915, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 274.

"It is unthinkable": Sunday Pictorial, 11 April 1915, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 274.

[>] "The chaps were all": Sgt. Bill Hay, 9th Battalion, Royal Scots, quoted in Livesey, p. 66.

"Germany has stooped": Gilbert, p. 145.

[>] "were not at present normal": 15 May 1915, WO 106/1519; R.H.K. Butler to GOC First Army, November 1915; Robertson to Haig, 14 January 1916; all quoted in Travers, p. 98n7.

"I don't know what": Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Twenty-five Years, 1892–1916, vol. 2 (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1925), p. 72.

[>] "Come on, Jocks": Trevor Wilson, p. 144.

"Precious documents": Wigram to Lady Haig, 28 September 1916, quoted in Denis Winter, p. 234.

"Take and shoot two": Haig to Lady Haig, 10 April 1915, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 184.

[>] "break thro' this": French to Winifred Bennett, 24 May 1915, quoted in Holmes, p. 294.

"shipwrecked souls": 18 February 1915, quoted in Holmes, p. 278.

"you can't trust them": 28 April 1915, quoted in Cassar, p. 225.

"I devoutly wish," "While they are": 21 May 1915, quoted in Holmes, p. 279.

[>] "They've been married": 15 September 1915, quoted in Holmes, p. 281.

"He is so hot tempered": Haig to Rothschild, 9 December 1915, Haig 1, p. 172.

"French seems to have": Haig to Rothschild, 20 May 1915, quoted in De Groot 1, pp. 193–194.

"had lost confidence": Haig 1, 14 July 1915, p. 130.

146 "The enemy ... can't go on": Haig to Lady Haig, 10 August 1915, quoted in De Groot i, p. 202.

11. IN THE THICK OF IT

[>] "all the English-speaking race": Times, 18 September 1914.

"is the sovereign disinfectant": Edmund Gosse, Inter Arma: Being Essays Written in Time of War (New York: Scribner's, 1916), p. 3.

[>] "this war may rank": John Buchan, The Future of the War (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916), pp. 13–14, quoted in Buitenhuis, p. 93.

"it is a war": Rudyard Kipling, The New Army (New York: Doubleday and Page, 1914), "Indian Troops," p. 7, quoted in Buitenhuis, p. 25.

[>] "What will be": Kipling, The New Army, "A Territorial Battalion and a Conclusion," p. 9, quoted in Buitenhuis, p. 26.

"very straight and smart": Gilmour, p. 257.

"This is the life": John Kipling to his family, 17 August 1915, Kipling 2, p. 195.

"Bread, sardines, jam": John Kipling to his family, 18 August 1915, Kipling 2, p. 197.

"Neither of them look": Morton Cohen, ed., Rudyard Kipling to Rider Haggard (Rutherford, NJ: Fairleigh