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613 “the peak moment”: Marder, III, 101.

613 “Dreyer, I think it is time”: Dreyer, 149.

613 “as thick as the traffic”: Marder, III, 112.

614 “fired a salvo over us”: Fawcett and Hooper, 81.

614 “a light cruiser squadron”: Marder, III, 117.

614 “dressed in all her glory”: Tarrant,
Warspite,
31.

615 “Twenty-four hours earlier”: Gibson and Harper, 176.

615 “berserk”: Marder, III, 113.

615 “while center stage”: Gordon, 443.

616 “got a bit rattled”: Ibid., 447.

617 “highly satisfactory”: Tarrant,
Invincible,
97.

617 “The gunnery”: Hayward, 118.

618 “Your firing is very good”:
Official Despatches,
168.

618 “At 6.29 p.m., the veil of mist”: Hase, 102–3.

618 “I have never seen anything”: Fawcett and Hooper, 130.

618 “My gun layer”: Ibid.

618 “Pick up survivors”:
Official Despatches,
460.

618 “had not a scratch”: Fawcett and Hooper, 136.

618 “Is wreck”:
Official Despatches,
462.

619 “a kind of paralysis”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 208.

619 Hipper’s conversations with Raeder and Harder are in ibid.

619 “a hole as big”: Ibid., 210.

620 “breaking into a ripple”: Gordon, 440.

621 “had but the foggiest idea”: Marder, III, 225.

621 “It was now obvious”: Scheer, 152.

621 “in the vicinity”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
281.

622 “While the battle is progressing”: Frost,
Battle of Jutland,
328.

622 “I could not see”: Marder, III, 123.

623 “Can you see”:
Official Despatches,
461.

623 “a heavy shock”: Ibid., 67.

624 “all sense of danger”: Wheeler-Bennett, 97.

625 “If the enemy followed”: Scheer, 155.

625 “It was as yet too early”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
151.

625 “The fact is”: Weizsäcker, 33.

626 “if I’d done it”: Marder, III, 128.

626 “bunched together”: Irving, 163.

627 “an almost continuous flickering”: Ibid., 157.

627 “Splinters penetrated”:
Official Despatches,
80.

627
“Schlachtkreuzer ran”:
Groos, V, 319.

628 “We were steaming”: Hase, 110–13.

628 “Operate against”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
283.

629 “altered course to starboard”: Fawcett and Hooper, 121–22.

630 “following exactly in our course”: Ibid., 117.

630 “torpedo was either deflected”: Ibid.

631 “eight or even more”: Irving, 173.

632 “full confidence”: Marder, II, 76.

633 “Submit van”:
Official Despatches,
466.

633 “posturing”: Gordon, 467.

633 “To tell the truth”: Marder, III, 145.

633 “Follow our battle cruisers”:
Official Despatches,
468.

CHAPTER 33: JUTLAND: NIGHT AND MORNING

635 “I went back”: Dreyer, 151.

636 “must have inevitably led”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
372.

636 “It was known to me”: Ibid., 373.

636 “Nothing would make me fight”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 271.

637 “to steer south”:
Official Despatches,
21.

637 “fulfill three conditions”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
374.

637 “No night intentions”: Bennett,
Battle of Jutland,
128.

637 “made from dark slabs” Costello and Hughes, 206.

638 “Please give me challenge”:
Official Despatches,
473.

639 “First sign of enemy challenge”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
286.

639 “the ‘V’ became an ‘X’ ”: Gibson and Harper, 220.

639 “I can’t help who it is”: Goodenough, 96.

639 “Those who have not”: Marder, III, 162–63.

640 “A signalman suddenly”: King-Hall, 149–53.

641 “Three [German] destroyer flotillas”:
Official Despatches,
474.

641 “I should not for a moment”:
Admiralty Narrative,
108.

641 “German battle fleet ordered home”:
Official Despatches,
475.

641 “The lamentable part”: Marder, III, 174.

642 “Of course, if the Admiralty” Bennett,
Jutland,
135.

642 “criminal neglect”: Marder, III, 176.

642 “had left the War Room”: Bennett,
Jutland,
135.

643 “and all the time”: Fawcett and Hooper, 179.

643 “A blaze of searchlights”: Ibid., 173.

644 “four big ships”: Ibid., 193–94.

645 “At 11.40”:
Official Despatches,
219–20.

646 “constant attacks by torpedo craft”: Ibid., 201.

646 “At 11.35 p.m., we observed”: Ibid., 271.

646 “which I surmised”: Ibid., 195–96.

646 “whether the various observations”: Gordon, 487.

647 “that the crew”: Scheer, 161–62.

647 “a grand but terrible”: Ibid., 162.

647 “URGENT. PRIORITY. Enemy’s battle fleet”: Marder, III, 166.

648 “URGENT. I am attacking”: Ibid.

648 “Amidships on the waterline”: Fawcett and Hooper, 208.

648 “Every now and then”: Legg, 122.

648 “A cruiser on fire”: Fawcett and Hooper, 202–3.

648 “violent action flared up”: Bennett,
Jutland,
127.

649 “Owing to the bad visibility”:
Official Despatches,
598.

651 “I did not challenge her”: Ibid., 93.

651 “I missed the chance”: Marder, III, 184.

652 “It was inadvisable”:
Official Despatches,
376.

653 “These difficulties rendered it undesirable”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
385.

653 “the double purpose”: Marder, III, 188.

653 “lifted its nose”: Fawcett and Hooper, 213.

654 “Damage yesterday”:
Official Despatches,
488.

654 “Enemy fleet has returned”: Ibid.

654 “None appeared to suffer”: Fawcett and Hooper, 196.

654 “I want to ascertain”:
Official Despatches,
506.

654 “wreck of
Queen Mary
”: Ibid.

654 “When did
Queen Mary
”: Ibid., 509.

654 “Was cause of sinking”: Ibid., 511.

654 “Do not think it was mines”: Ibid., 514.

656 “bobbing about”: Fawcett and Hooper, 93.

656 “triumph of organization”: Ibid., 94.

656 “sat down on the settee”: Chalmers, 262.

656 “[It was] an awful sight”: Gordon, 470.

656 “The wounded who could speak”: King-Hall, 156.

657 “Very rapidly”: Gordon, 477–78.

657 “how he had found”: Marder, III, 495.

657 “poor charred bodies”: Bennett,
Jutland,
153.

657 “poor, unrecognisable scraps”: Gordon, 496.

657 “an awful smell”: Hayward, 146–47.

CHAPTER 34: JUTLAND: AFTERMATH

658 “not yet returned”: Marder, III, 234.

658 “intoxicated with its victory”: Ibid.

658 The German newspaper headlines I quote appear in Tarrant,
Jutland,
247.

658 “Trafalgar Is Wiped Out”: Gibson and Harper, 256.

659 “annihilation”: Ibid.

659 “the arrogant presumption”: Ibid., 256–57.

659 “almost hysterical”: Marder, III, 234.

659 “The journey”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
274.

659 “cock-crowing”: Marder, III, 235.

659 “Nevertheless”: Ibid., 253.

660 “prompt contradiction”: Irving, 9.

660 London newsboys: Gibson and Harper, 258.

661 “On the afternoon”: Newbolt, IV, 3.

661 “I desired”: Marder, III, 243.

661 The quotations from the
Daily Telegraph
and
Daily News
are taken from ibid., 241.

661 “They’ve failed me”: Gordon, 498.

662 “having driven the enemy”: Newbolt, IV, 6.

662 “substantial victory”: This and the following quotations are from Marder, III, 243–44.

662 “Will the shouting”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
250.

663 “It is not customary”: Gordon, 504.

663 “The German fleet has assaulted”: Tarrant,
Jutland,
250.

663 “talked twaddle”: Beaverbrook, 71.

663 One night over dinner: Dugdale, 115–16.

663 “Rightly or wrongly”: Magnus, 372.

664 “the dirtiest night”: Gordon, 503.

664 “a timetable”: Jellicoe,
Grand Fleet,
423.

664 “I feel in a measure”: Marder, III, 237.

666 “the superiority”: Ibid., 198.

666 “the supreme quality”: Tirpitz, I, 173.

666 “Hit first”: Marder, III, 203.

668 “laughable” and “broken to pieces”: Chatfield, 153.

668 green boys: Marder, III, 263.

669 “May I go outside”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 268.

669 “God bless you, Sir”: Ibid., 270.

669 “Your deployment into battle”: Fisher,
FGDN,
III, 358.

669 “You were robbed”: Marder, III, 236–37.

669 “I hope that”: Ibid., 237.

670 “I often feel”: Ibid.

670 “I missed”: Ibid.

670 “First, I want to offer you”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 277.

670 “I spent an hour”: Marder, III, 238.

670 “As you well know”: Ibid.

670 “arrogant, slipshod”: Ibid., 246.

670 “There is no doubt”: Ibid.

671 “If Jellicoe had grasped”: Ibid., 245.

671 “Now that it is all over”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 369.

671 “It was nothing”: Marder, III, 81.

672 “Scheer had but”: Ibid., 226.

673 “Neither
Lion
nor
Princess Royal
”: Harper,
Truth,
157.

675 “he would have led”: Marder, III, 105.

675 “I hope I would”: Ibid.

675 “He fought to make”: Ibid., 226.

675 “I am not particularly sensitive”:
Jellicoe Papers,
I, 288.

676 “I do not understand”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 280.

676 “based solely:” Harper,
Truth,
5.

676 “we do not wish”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 465.

677 “Well, I suppose”: Ibid., 471.

677 “It is to be supposed”: Pollen,
The Navy in Battle,
338–39.

677 Harper described Pollen: Harper,
Truth,
146.

677 “full of errors”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 412.

677 “almost unreadable”: Winton, 287.

677 “a man of tearful yesterdays”: Bellairs, 80.

678 “outrageous and intolerable”: Harper,
Truth,
170.

678 “It is, apparently”: Ibid., 169.

678 “I am the luckiest person”: Ralph Seymour, 71.

678 “ ‘Flags’ is my Food Dictator”:
Beatty Papers,
I, 408.

678 “lost three battles”: Marder, II, 140.

678 “rose in all Hell’s fury”: Roskill,
Beatty,
316.

678 “The Admiralty are bent”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
438.

678 “On learning of the approach”: Patterson,
Jellicoe,
233.

678 “The carelessness”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 417–18.

678 “It is . . . of course”: Ibid.

678 “If you had seen”: Bacon,
Jellicoe,
440.

679 “A British squadron was worsted”: Bacon,
Scandal,
97.

679 “A want of tactical competence”: Ibid., xv.

679 “Beatty now made a decision”: Harper,
Truth,
50–51.

679 “Then, full of ardor”: Bacon,
Scandal,
90.

679 “It is unpalatable”: Harper,
Truth,
69–70.

679 “Lord Beatty’s political power”:
Jellicoe Papers,
II, 462.

680 “the absence of even approximately”: Marder, III, 90, 93.

680 “the consequences to Britain”: Churchill, III, 110.

681 “the standpoint”: Ibid., 112.

681 “The dominant school”: Ibid., 111.

681 “The attempt to centralise”: Ibid., 169.

681 “the Royal Navy must find”: Ibid., 169–70.

681 “Mr. Churchill as he sits”: Bacon,
Scandal,
194.

682 “He beckoned me over”: Gordon, 519.

682 “stayed on deck”: Ibid., 521.

683 “High Seas Fleet may be sighted”: Marder, III, 292.

683 “Scouting by airships”: Ibid., 298.

CHAPTER 35: AMERICA ENTERS THE WAR

686 “Where does incompetence”: Jarausch, 294.

686 “As you wish”: Görlitz, 199.

686 “I am ready”: Hindenburg, 81.

687 “When the Quartermaster General”: Kürenburg, 325.

687 “Every day is important”: Jarausch, 344.

688 “America had better”: Gerard,
Four Years,
252.

688 “nothing more than a sieve”: Ludendorff,
General Staff,
278.

689 “the decision for an unrestricted”: Ibid., 281.

689 “directly affects our relations”: Ibid.

689 “He kept us out of war”: Ritter, III, 301.

691 “Charles E. Hughes”: Heckscher, 415.

691 “the election of Mr. Hughes”: Baker, VI, 296.

691 “It was a little moth-eaten”: Heckscher, 415.

692 “if Germany won”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
I, 293.

692 “He holds no office”: Ibid., II, 113.

693 “Mr. House is my second personality”: Ibid., I, 115.

693 “You are the only person”: Ibid., 116.

693 “personal friend of the President”: Ibid., 247.

693 “Instead of sending”: Ibid., II, 113.

693 “My Dear Theodore”: Spring-Rice, II, 252.

693 “My Dear Cabot”: Ibid., 291.

693 “Uncle Henry”: Ibid., 180.

693 “a little book by a Jew-boy”: Ibid., 170.

693 “Jew bankers”: Ibid., 248.

693 “Jews capturing”: Ibid., 245.

693 “feeling a sympathy”: Charles Seymour,
House Papers,
II, 99.

693 “At one time”: Ibid., 76.

693 “I would be glad”: Ibid.

693 “Sir Cecil’s nervous temperment”: Ibid., 57.

693 “There is a strong sense”: Spring-Rice, II, 343.

694 “Our blockade measures”: Ibid., 354.

694 “The President rarely”: Ibid., 366.

694 “I have been in Russia”: Ibid., 372.

694 “Here [in Washington]”: Ibid., 368.