To End All Wars_ A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 - Adam Hochschild [225]
"asked my religion": Russell 1, p. 30.
[>] "Dear Brockway—": Brockway, p. 113.
[>] "Only those who have": Brockway, p. 113.
"people steeped to the neck": French to Esher, 26 May 1918, John French, p. 296.
"like nothing so much": French to Lloyd George, 5 March 1918, quoted in Dangerfield, p. 272.
327 "by the public hangman": Britannia, 30 August 1918, quoted in Bullock and Pankhurst, p. 85n91.
"Some talk about": Britannia, 8 November 1918, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 312.
"I only look in wonder": Sylvia Pankhurst to Adela Pankhurst Walsh, 11 July 1918, quoted in Purvis 1, p. 311.
"a conflict between the two": Toland, p. 317.
"We must be prepared": Milner to Lloyd George, 9 June 1918, quoted in Gollin, p. 565.
[>] "What would this mean?": Sir Henry Wilson Diary, 1 June 1918, quoted in Trevor Wilson, p. 579.
21. THERE ARE MORE DEAD THAN LIVING NOW
[>] "Any hesitation or": French to King George V, 10 September 1918, quoted in Holmes, p. 343.
"the complete removal": French to King George V, 12 July 1918, quoted in Holmes, p. 343.
[>] "The threat of an American": Rudolf Georg Binding, A Fatalist at War (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929), p. 220, quoted in Sheffield, p. 219.
"Retreat? Hell, we": Captain Lloyd Williams. Keegan 1, p. 407.
[>] "Our victorious army": Major General Max Hoffmann, Chicago Daily News, 13 March 1919, quoted in Wheeler-Bennett, p. 352.
"eyes glued to telescopes": Churchill 1, p. 802.
"They looked larger": Brittain, p. 420.
[>] "became furious and shouted": Toland, p. 381.
[>] "was the black day": Livesey, p. 166.
Several hundred thousand: The number of these men is commonly cited as a million or more, but Alexander Watson, in Enduring the Great War: Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), pp. 207–208, 212, convincingly shows why the actual number is probably far lower.
[>] "nearer to Bolshevism": Porter 3, p. 143.
Millman suggests that: Millman, pp. 4, 170. See Chapter 11 for most of his description of British plans for containing revolution at home.
[>] "really extends from": Milner to Lloyd George, 20 March 1918, quoted in Gollin, p. 563.
"Much talk with Milner": Sir Henry Wilson Diary, 4 November 1918, quoted in Marlowe, p. 318.
"The cemetery has been shelled": Cecil, p. 280.
[>] "They ... lived the span": Kipling 1, vol. 1, introduction.
"Here 2nd Lieutenant Clifford": Kipling 1, vol. 2, chap. 1.
[>] "To every single one of us": Toland, pp. 412–413.
"My senses are charred": Gilbert, p. 476.
338 "save us from the grave danger": Toland, p. 372.
[>] "I shall remain at Spa": Toland, p. 558.
"Treason, gentlemen!": Toland, p. 565.
[>] "Twenty years time": James 1, p. 557.
"It is important that": Haig to Lady Haig, 31 October 1918, quoted in De Groot 1, p. 394.
[>] "I remember sitting on": Brockway, p. 116.
"An airman suddenly swooped": Corder Catchpool, Letters of a Prisoner: For Conscience Sake (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1941), p. 123.
"The crowd was frivolous": Russell 1, p. 35.
[>] "Lady Edward dined": Milner Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford, dep. 89.
"A world to be remade": Holt, p. 166.
"I never realised how tired": Adam Smith, p. 214.
"There are far more dead": Adam Smith, p. 217.
22. THE DEVIL'S OWN HAND
[>] Most other counts are higher: For a breakdown by country of one such estimate—at least 9.4 million total military deaths—see Spencer C. Tucker, ed., World War I Encyclopedia, vol. 1 (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2005), pp. 272–274.
"Every day one meets": Margaret Cole, ed., Beatrice Webb's Diaries (London: Longmans, Green, 1952), p. 137 (17 November 1918), quoted in Hew Strachan, The First World War (London: Penguin, 2005), p. 337.
[>] "As a mother deprived": Times, 3 January 1919.
civilian war deaths: 12 million: Hanson, p. 284; 13 million: "World War I," in Encyclopedia Britannica (online), accessed 28 March 2010.
[>] 400,000 died: Ferguson 1, p. 301. See also Paice, pp. 392–398, whose various death figures add up to a higher total, although they include