Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War (107 page)

89
‘The response was very’ Recouly p.137

89
‘Oh, the poor fools’ Gibson, Hugh
A Journal from Our Legation
NY 1917 p.43

90
‘British and French soldiers’ see Keith Wilson p.155

91
‘the nightmare of’
l’Express
24.7.14

91
‘looked very pale and anxious’ IWM 05/63/1 papers of N Macleod

92
‘Felt very unhappy’ ibid.

92
‘Capt. Maurice Festing’ Festing MS p.4

93
‘Grey’s speech … was splendid’ Bertie diary 4.8.14

93
‘We were extraordinarily’ Recouly p.25

94
‘Are you going to go’ Clark pp.63–4

94
‘
L’Angleterre se dégage!
’ Strong p.21

95
‘an extraordinary change’ IWM 05/63/1 papers of N Macleod

95
‘Commence hostilities’ Festing
MS p.11

96
‘What a real piece of luck’ Herwig
War
p.31

97
‘Am I surrounded by dolts?’ Andrew, Christopher
The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5
Allen Lane 2005 p.52

97
‘Well it’s come!’ Holroyd p.448 4.8.14

98
‘he was glad that the
Anglichanka
’ Knox p.xxxv

98
‘Now you will give thanks’ Šuklje, Fran
Iz mojih spominov II
Ljubljana 1995

98
‘On the night of 4 August’ Baring p.9

100
‘The aim of the war’ Soutou, Georges-Henri p.22

100
‘Georges-Henri Soutou’ ibid. p.22 and passim

101
‘it is well understood’ ibid. p.30

Chapter 3 – ‘The Superb Spectacle of the World Bursting Into Flames’

1 MIGRATIONS

103
‘Maurice Hankey’ BNA CAB15/5

104
‘because it is a Serb custom’ Tadija Pejović, ‘
Dvadesetšesti juli 1914
’ in Đurič and Stevanović pp.31–2

104
‘Only ignorance can’ Oman, J.
The War and its Issues
CUP 1915 p.91

105
‘I am sorry’ Krafft-Krivanec, Johnanna
Niedergeschrieben für euch. Ein Kriegstagebuch aus kulturanthropologischer Perspektive
Vienna Passagen Verlag 2005 pp.59–60

105
‘
Omnium Gallorum fortissimi
’ IWM 91/3/1 Edouard Beer MS

105
‘The omnipotent state’ Kondurashkin, S.S.
Vsled za voinoi
[In the Footsteps of War] Petrograd 1915 p.9

105
‘OK boys’ Samborn
Mobilization
p.272

106
‘The schoolmaster shouted’ Prévost, Alain
Paysan français Ephraim Grenadou
Éditions du Seuil 1966 p.76

106
‘it seemed that suddenly’ Flood p.7

106
‘God gave me strength’ ibid. p.12

107
‘Papa must go’ ibid. p.13

107
‘People smiled’ Gide p.51

107
‘all along the valley’ ibid. p.34

107
‘Captain the Hon. Lionel Tennyson’ IWM 76/21/1 Ms Tennyson

108
‘Early casualty lists’ Überegger, Oswald (ed.)
Heimatfronten. Dokumente zur Erfahrungsgeschichte der Tiroler Kriegsgesellschaft im Ersten Weltkrieg
Innsbruck UP Wagner 2006 pp.24–5

108
‘The call-up of doctors’ ibid. pp.405–6

108
‘The same was said’ Schneider, Constantin
Die Kriegserinnerungen 1914–1919
ed. Oskar Dohle Vienna Böhlau 2003 pp.22–3

108
‘Geoffrey Clarke’
The Times
letters 5.8.14

109
‘Don’t worry too much’ GW files G. Galpin letter to the author 7.5.64

109
‘talking excitedly about’ Egremont, Max
Forgotten Land: Journeys Among the Ghosts of East Prussia
Picador 2011 p.75

109
‘Where the devil’ Recouly p.36

2 PASSIONS

110
‘We have never lost’ Mihaly p.15 2.8.14

110
‘We eat white rolls’ ibid. p.16 2.8.14

112
‘The mock warfare’ Clarke p.64

113
‘[The people of Britain] feel and know’
The Times
6.8.14

114
‘
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
’ NAZ 22.8.14

114
‘In Paris knitwear shops’ Rioux pp.63–4

114
‘Bernard Shaw found himself’ Holroyd p.449

115
‘Shaw remained impenitent’ ibid. p.453

115
‘Many German
restaurants’
Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt
p.161

115
‘In Münster, a notably’ Nubel p.80

116
‘In Belgrade several men’ Slavka Mihajlovic 17.9.14 in Đurič and Stevanović p.140

116
‘there will be a good many’ Bertie diary 7.8.14

116
‘During the last’
The Times
22.8.14

116
‘Asta Nielsen’ Verhey p.84

116
‘Austrian soldiers in Mostar’ ASA MS Matija Malešić, War Diary 1914 p.44

116
‘Animals!’
Stahl und Steckrüben. Beiträge und Quellen zur Geschichte Niedersachsens im Ersten Weltkrieg (1914–1918)
Vol. I Hamelin Niemeyer 1993 p.75 3.8.14

117
‘one was delighted’ Kondurashkin p.8

117
‘When two days’ newspapers’ ibid. p.10

117
‘To be sure, some clashes’
Stahl und Steckrüben
p.117 19.8.14

117
‘This 1905 work’ Gudehus-Schomerus

118
‘the grandeur of the times’ Krafft-Krivanec p.59

118
‘war, war, the
Volk
has arisen’ Thompson p.96

118
‘Gertrud Bäumer’ Verhey p.128

118
‘feeling of confidence’ IWM 05/63/1 papers of N Macleod

119
‘
The Economist
asserted’
The Economist
8.8.14

119
‘A.P. Herbert’ Turner, E.S.
Dear Old Blighty
Michael Joseph 1980 p.26

120
‘England was innocent’ Tomalin, Claire
Thomas Hardy
Penguin 2006 p.332

120
‘I’ve often known’ Wallace, Stuart
War and the Image of Germany
John Donald 1988 p.74

120
‘who worked themselves’ Emmet MS, family collection, lent to the author

121
‘The haste with which’
Berliner Geschichtswerkstatt
pp.165–6

121
‘issued an abrupt’ Bonham-Carter, Violet
Champion Redoubtable: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham-Carter
1914–45 ed. Mark Pottle Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998 p.7

121
‘a stronghold of penury’ Playne, Caroline
Society At War
Allen & Unwin 1931 p.100

121
‘Gustav Mayer’ Niedhart, Gottfried (ed.)
Gustav Mayer. Als deutsch-jüdischer Historiker in Krieg und Revolution 1914–1920. Tagebücher, Aufzeichnungen, Briefe
, Munich Oldenbourg 2009 pp.314–15

122
‘In the German countryside’ Verhey p.92

122
‘This war ought to’ IWM 07/63/1 GCF Harcourt-Vernon papers 6.8.14

122
‘By 8 p.m. on 5 August’ Mallinson, Allan
The Times
10.9.2011

123
‘Hello, pastor’ Verhey p.75

123
‘We have to learn’ Palmer, Svetlana and Wallis, Sarah (eds)
The War in Words
Simon & Schuster 2003 p.44

123
‘It was an undignified’ Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth
Beatrice Webb
Secker & Warburg 1967 p.206

124
‘This is the greatest fight’ Holroyd p.447

124
‘The Catholic Archbishop of Freiburg’ Chickering
Urban Life
p.73

124
‘
Germania delenda
’ Ransome, Arthur
Autobiography
Cape 1976 p.169

124
‘Long live the Tsar’ ibid. p.273

124
‘a fruitless venture’ Neiburg, Michael
Dance of the Furies: Europe and the Outbreak of World War 1
Belknap 2011 p.132

124
‘There isn’t nowadays’ Lieven p.21

124
‘Reservists are producing’ Samborn, Joshua
The Mobilization of 1914
p.275

125
‘Will I be able to’ Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Geheime Tagebücher 1914–1916
Vienna Turia & Kant 1991 p.13

125
‘Dispatched to serve’ ibid. p.17 15.8.14

125
‘Please keep my washing’ Palmer and Wallis p.19

126
‘The plan of invasion’ Boyle, Andrew
The Riddle of Erskine Childers
Hutchinson 1977 p.198

126
‘The atmosphere on board’ ibid. p.201

3 DEPARTURES

127
‘loud staccato voice’ Lloyd George p.83

127
‘walk through them’ ibid. p.63

127
‘my inability to stomach’ Palmer and Wallis p.20

128
‘What a cosmopolitan’ ibid. p.21

128
‘
The Times
published’
The Times
22.8.14

128
‘The young females’ GW files Lt. Col. G.B. Hamley to the author 16.5.64

128
‘Nineteen?’ GW files Stephen Lang to the author 1964

131
‘What is this’ Clarke p.65

131
‘I trembled at the’ Haig, Douglas
War Diaries and Letters
ed. Gary Sheffield and John Bourne Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 p.54

133
‘I know that French’ ibid. p.56

134
‘Quick,
Monsieur l’Abbé
’ Painter, George
Marcel Proust
Pimlico 1996 p.217

134
‘Within the echoing’ ibid. p.217

135
‘Suddenly a cheer’ Chickering
Urban Life
p.67

135
‘Behind the army’ Hirschfeld, Gerhard et al. (eds)
Kriegserfahrungen. Studien zur Sozial - und Mentalitätsgeschichte des Ersten Weltkriegs
, Essen Klartext 1997 p.41

135
‘
Leb wohl!
’ Mihaly pp.24–5 4.8.14

135
‘Women bade them’ Kondurashkin p.13

135
‘As the horses and men’ Littauer p.129

135
‘They would simply’ ibid. p.128

136
‘Among the Irish Guards’ officers’ Thomson p.83

136
‘We’ll die hearty!’ Strong p.128

136
‘At 5 a.m. on 3 August’ Stein MS IWM 86/30/1

136
‘Jože Cvelbar’ NUK/R, J. Cvelbar, Ms 1774

136
‘Goodbye, my rooms’ Lacouture, Jean
De Gaulle: The Rebel 1890–1944
Collins Harvill 1990 p.29

136
‘unknown adventure’ ibid. p.26

137
‘If there is any justice’ Mombauer p.233

137
‘I can only think about’ Palmer and Wallis p.53

137
‘so small and thin’ Farmborough, Florence
Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914–18
London 1977 p.17

Chapter 4 – Disaster on the Drina

138
‘The sound of gunfire’ Đurič and Stevanović pp.35, 37

138
‘The war that Austria-Hungary’ ibid. p.45 et seq.

139
‘is dear to every Serbian’ Vivian p.198

139
‘More than America’ Kronenbitter pp.484–5

139
‘Perhaps for the first time’ Jay p.346

140
‘to play with absolutely’ Herwig
War
p.52

140
‘Commanders neglected’ Kronenbitter p.87

141
‘waging war means’ ibid. p.107

141
‘not to be despised’
The Times
27.7.14

142
‘We are all peasants’ Reed p.47

142
‘Živan Živanović’ Živanović in Đurič and Stevanović p.50

142
‘These are to bury’ ibid. p.32

143
‘Once ensconced’ Strandman p.323

143
‘We were still oblivious’ Stojadinović p.72

143
‘Many seized what’ Milutinović, Sveta
Kako se u Beogradu živelo prvim danima svetskog
rata
p.39

143
‘I felt how much the Old’ Đurič and Stevanović p.52

143
‘As soon as the gunfire’ ibid. pp.121–2

145
‘Jovan Žujović’ Žujović diary p.246

145
‘On Monday
we marched’ ASA MS Matija Malešič War Diary 1914

145
‘If we go on like’ ASA B 1600/6: Alexander Koloman Maria Pallavicini
The Serbian Campaign 1914
6.8.14

145
‘If this story is true’ Kisch p.31 10.8.14

146
‘big, buzzing flies’ ibid. p.33

146
‘
Herrgott
!’ ibid. pp.34–5 12.8.1

146
‘The whole horizon’ ASA Pallavicini, Alexander
Markgraf Pallavicini B 1600

146
‘Though the enemy was’ Kisch p.40 14.8.14

146
‘Alex Pallavicini reported’ ASA B1600/6 AKM Pallavicini 14/15.8.14

147
‘apparently contented’ Kisch p.36

147
‘our moral and numerical’ Gumz, Jonathan
The Resurrection and Collapse of Empire in Habsburg Serbia 1914–18
CUP 2009 p.46

147
‘On 16 August, for instance’ Kisch p.46

148
‘An hour later’ ASA Pallavicini MS diary B 1600/6

148
‘Hangmen presented’ Holzer, Anton
Das Lächeln der Henker. Der unbekannte Krieg gegen die Zivilbevölkerung 1914–1918
Darmstadt Primus 2008 p.101

148
‘I met a column’ ASA B 1600/6: Alexander Koloman Maria Pallavicini MS diary, ‘The Serbian Campaign 1914’

149
‘Lütgendorf without further’ Holzer pp.133–7, 141–4

149
‘the population, among them’ Gumz p.47

150
‘such a way of fighting’ ASA Pallavicini MS 18.8.14

150
‘resembling a strongly-struck’ ASA B609 Bachmann MS

150
‘The Austrian commissariat’ Kisch p.50 16.8.14

150
‘as if they wanted’ ibid. pp.41–2

150
‘I looked wistfully’ ibid. p.43

150
‘Hirtenberger Patronen-’ ibid. pp.127–8 19.9.14