To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [220]
[>] "felt that it was": Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (London: Penguin, 1993), p. 22.
"Stretchers blocked the cellar": Lawrence Gameson Papers, pp. 52–53, Imperial War Museum, quoted in Peter Barham, Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 148.
"the spirit of the wounded": Haig Diary, 25 July 1916, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 255.
"a hale and hearty": J.F.C. Fuller, in Wolff, p. x.
[>] "'The powers that be'": Haig 1, 1 August 1916, p. 213.
"the maintenance of a steady": Haig to Robertson, 1 August 1916, Haig 1, p. 214.
"Have another glass": Lord Birkenhead, Life of F. E. Smith (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1960), p. 287.
[>] "For God's sake": Gilbert, p. 285.
"esprit de corps": Arthur Surfleet, "Blue Chevrons: An Infantry Private's Great War Diary," Imperial War Museum, quoted in Trevor Wilson, pp. 355–361.
"There is something": Bickersteth, p. 178.
"Once you have lain": Guy Chapman, A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1965), p. 226.
[>] in 2005 alone: Mark Bostridge, "'We Go Tomorrow,'" Guardian, 1 July 2006.
"a very large number": Haig to Robertson, 7 October 1916, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 269.
almost 500,000 casualties: Both lower and higher figures are sometimes used; this one comes from a generally pro-Haig book, John Hussey, Portrait of a Commander in Chief, quoted in Bond and Cave, p. 35n35.
"advanced toward our men": Gibbs, p. 422.
15. CASTING AWAY ARMS
[>] "Women rushed towards": The Danish actress Asta Nielsen, in Dieter Glatzer and Ruth Glatzer, Berliner Leben, vol. 1 (Berlin: Rütten & Loening, 1986), pp. 265–266, quoted in Thomas Levenson, Einstein in Berlin (New York: Bantam Books, 2003), pp. 143–144.
Germans lined the border: Kramer, pp. 42–43.
[>] "It makes my blood boil": Russell to Ottoline Morrell, 1 September 1916, quoted in Vellacott, p. 93.
[>] "a woman known": Cecil to Simon, 8 November 1915, quoted in Kaminski, p. 300.
was the sole Briton: Nation, p. 273n10. This meeting was a follow-up to the better-known one at Zimmerwald the previous year, at which no Britons were present.
[>] "Arrive London about midday": 29 June 1916, FO 372/894/125014.
"A bridge is needed": Hobhouse to Smuts, 25 March 1917, quoted in Balme, p. 558.
"After a good deal": 2 November 1916, CAB 41/37/38.
[>] "the sort of conclusions": Thomson to Dormer, 1 July 1916, FO 372/894/128477.
"patriotic ardor for": Hobhouse 1, p. 53.
[>] "I cannot make up": Hobhouse to Courtney, Wills, p. 15.
"the look of eager": Hobhouse 1, p. 148.
[>] "Few things moved me": Wills, pp. 46–47.
"A danger which the country": Douglas Haig, "Memorandum on Policy for the
Press," 26 May 1916, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 242.
"So far as Britain is": Ferguson 1, p. 213.
"which should not be": INF 4/1B, quoted in Millman, p. 182.
[>] "Even as he lies": Gilbert, p. 298.
"I was thoroughly and": William Beach Thomas, A Traveller in News (London:
Chapman and Hall, 1925), p. 109.
"Gentlemen, you have played": Gibbs, p. 30.
"in a certain jauntiness": Montague, pp. 97–98, 94.
drafting the weekly communiqués: Some of these are in FO 395/53.
[>] "most anxious to help": Haig Diary, 30 September 1916, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 272.
"send him a line": Haig Diary, 23 July 1917, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 259.
"It was his last attempt": Buchan 3, p. 175n
"When eminent and cultivated": Buchan 3, p. 177.
225 "clerks and shopboys": Buchan 2, pp. 34–35.
"strange machines": Buchan 2, pp. 115, 121–122.
"a shattering blow": Buchan 2, p. 167.
"our major purpose": Buchan 2, p. 171.
"the strain of duplicity": Buitenhuis, p. 98.
"Whenever the German man": Daily Express, 24 May 1916, quoted in Angus Wilson, p. 300.
[>] "human beings and Germans": Morning Post, 22 June 1915, quoted in Gilmour, p. 250.
"My son was killed": "Epitaphs of the War," 1919.
"Down on your knees": Angus Wilson, p. 304.
[>] "have stirred London": James Douglas, "The Somme Pictures. Are They Too Painful for Public Exhibition?" Star, 25 August 1916, quoted