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41 "No triumph of peace is quite so great": Morris 1979:569 "the basic principle behind all the events": Strachan 2001:68

CHAPTER 6: DIPLOMATS ALIGN

44 "In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries": Morgenthau 1978:248

"He is nothing but a boy": McLean 2001:16

45 "He's raving mad!": Ibid.:44

"mischievous and unstraight-forward": Ibid.:79

CHAPTER 9: EXPLOSIVE GERMANY

54 "the salient feature": Berghahn 1993:172

55 "We shall . . . receive an increase": Joll 1992:56

56 "to suppress internal revolutions": Berghahn 1993:28

"one nation is found to have gained": Halévy 1930:6

57
"90 per cent
of the Reich budget": Berghahn 1993:88

58 John Röhl: Clark 2000:19

"headstretching machine": Ibid.:20

59 "I am the sole master": Ibid.: 123

"it cannot be done": Ibid.:125

60 "From the mid-i890s onwards": Berghahn 1993:16

62 Fritz Fischer tells us: Fischer 1975:28

CHAPTER 10: MACEDONIA—OUT OF CONTROL

67 "The most difficult, complicated . . . problem": Shaw and Shaw 1977 II:207–208

CHAPTER II: AUSTRIA—FIRST OFF THE MARK

72 "fearful stupidity": Bridge 1990:228

"deeply offended": Albertini 1952 I:228

"Our problem could be stated": Ibid.:230

74 "out of the internal and external difficulties": Berghahn 1993:93

"will not come so soon": Ibid.:91

75 "Moltke had changed the treaty of 1879": Craig 1978:323

CHAPTER 12: FRANCE AND GERMANY MAKE THEIR PLAY

78 "If it comes to a war": Joll 1992:58

called in foreign debts: Gooch and Temperley 1926:205

79 "the Fleet might be attacked": W. Churchill 1923:48

81 "The most significant military consequence of the second Moroccan crisis": Herrmann 1996:172

CHAPTER 13: ITALY GRASPS; THEN THE BALKANS DO TOO

84 "Nobody took the slightest notice": Varé 1938:70

85 Sazonov told the Serbian ambassador: Albertini 1952 I:486

CHAPTER 14: THE SLAVIC TIDE

88 "flung out of Europe": Röhl 1994:167

to intervene to "keep the peace": Clark 2000:189

should form a "ring": Ibid.: 190

"get on with it": Ibid.

"Afterwards there will be time to talk": Ibid.

"at the right time for us!": Ibid.

not to "hinder the Bulgars": Ibid.

"United States of the Balkans": Ibid.

"I see absolutely no danger": Ibid.

88 He denied that the terms of the Triple Alliance: Ibid.

89 "existential struggle": Ibid.

"have spoken in detail": Röhl 1994:168

"under no circumstances": Ibid.:191

"comprehensible to the German people": Ibid.

"the position which I wanted": Ibid.

Germany would back Austria "in all circumstances": Ibid.

90 "both Italy and England are on our side": Ibid.:170

"for whatever reason'':
Ibid.

"the consequences . . . incalculable": Ibid.:173

91 "idiocy . . . eternally into our enemy": Ibid.

92 Wilhelm told the Swiss minister: Ibid.: 176

"an even more galvanizing effect": Herrmann 1996:177

93 hard to find a rallying cry: Stevenson 1996:264

CHAPTER 15: EUROPE GOES TO THE BRINK

95 "an historic process": Albertini 1952 I:488

97 "swaddling clothes": Kautsky 1924:53

"Against us": Ibid.

"early war": Ibid.:54

"Twaddle!": Ibid.

CHAPTER 16: MORE BALKAN TREMORS

100 "Two important people are against it": Geiss 1967:48

102 "Conrad first proposed preventive war": Strachan 2001:69

103 "When starting a world war": Geiss 1967:43

CHAPTER 17: AN AMERICAN TRIES TO STOP IT

104 "a slender, middle-aged man": Smith 1940:51

105 "the President had given very little thought": Ibid.:102

106 "House sees nobody": Ibid.:2

"Even at sea": House Papers, 1914 Diary, May 23

"Teutonic nations": Wall 1989:909

"Why should these": Ibid.

"It lies today": Ibid.:924

107 "tended to confirm": Link 1979:108–109

108 "as against the Oriental": House Papers, 1914 Diary, June 1 House "spoke of the community": Ibid.

109 "I am glad to tell you": Link 1979:139

German emperor had "seemed pleased": Ibid.: 140

"one feeling in common": Ibid.

109 "principals should get together": House Papers, 1914 Diary, June 24

"in a fair way": Ibid.: June 1

"my work in Germany": Ibid.: June 12

"everything cluttered up with social affairs": Link 1979:190

House . . . warned Grey: House Papers, 1914 Diary, June 27

110 "Neither England, Germany": Ibid.

"the undeveloped countries": Ibid.: June 24

"House had just come from Berlin": Grey 1925 1:323

CHAPTER 18: THE LAST WALTZ

114 Franz Ferdinand . . . "came to enjoy influence": Williamson 1991:21

CHAPTER 19: IN THE LAND OF THE ASSASSINS

120 Zeman . . . population pressures: Evans 1990:32

"the poorest part of a poor province": Ibid.:23

122 "to make trouble for Pasic": Albertini 1952 II:63

CHAPTER 20: THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION

130 "used the Serb cause as a weapon": Albertini 1952 II:117

"a party to the Black Hand": Thomson 1964:47

131 to have "that foolish Ferdinand" killed: Wilson 1995:85

CHAPTER 21: THE TERRORISTS STRIKE

132 The rest of the procession. . . depending upon whose account: Remak 1959; Morton 1989

134 "Of the other conspirators": Taylor 1964:72

CHAPTER 22: EUROPE YAWNS

138 "international illuminati": Mann 1983:18

"it is a great worry less": Morton 1989:267

"a certain easing of mood": Ibid.

139 "the death . . . came as a relief: Albertini 1952 II:115

"a dispensation of Providence": Ibid.:216

141 "hardly mentioned": Keiger 2002:164

"It has been curious to study": Zeman 1971:2

"mine I displayed": Keiger 2002:102

143 Poincaré jested: Ibid.:160

"the event almost failed to make any impression": Zeman 1971:2

"no particular shock or dismay": Zweig 1943:216

CHAPTER 23: DISPOSING OF THE BODIES

144 "the whole officer corps": Albertini 1952 II:117

"his full insignia": Ibid.

CHAPTER 24: ROUNDING UP THE SUSPECTS

146 Princip, "exhausted by his beating": Albertini 1952 II:42–43

"people took me for a weakling": Dedijer 1966:197

147 Potiorek was able to cable: Albertini 1952 II:43

148 failed to forward or communicate it: Williamson 1991:193

"nothing to indicate": Marshall 1964:25

"very depressed": Kautsky 1924:63–64

"He must have known it!": Ibid.

"press are blaming Serbia": Great Britain 1915:10

"both assassins are Austrian": Ibid.:11

"put an end . . . to the anti-Serbian campaign": Ibid.: 12

149 "Now or never!": Kautsky 1924:61

"no sign of consternation": Great Britain 1915:9–10

Gagarin was struck: Lieven 1983:140

CHAPTER 25: GERMANY SIGNS A BLANK CHECK

154 "Who authorized him": Kautsky 1924:61

155 "reckoning" with Serbia: Albertini 1952 II:125

156 time "to annihilate Serbia": Geiss 1967:66

"Austria must beat the Serbs": Berghahn 1993:200

157 "a factor of political power": Kautsky 1924:69

158 authoritative work: Berghahn 1993

"Germany . . . had surrendered": Williamson 1991:197

159 "the situation would be cleared up": Berghahn 1993:199

"the Austrian government will demand": Ibid.

Falkenhayn . . . not convinced: Geiss 1967:72

160 "Russians . . . will not join in": Ibid.:71

Russia "was not. . . prepared": Clark 2000:203

France . . . lacked heavy artillery: Geiss 1967:71

CHAPTER 26: THE GREAT DECEPTION

163 "childish!": Geiss 1967:90

164 Capelle recalled: Kautsky 1924:47

Zenker: Ibid.:49

"I shall not give in": Fischer 1975:478

165 "stiff but not impossible": Berghahn 1993:204

166 "thoroughly confident": Geiss 1967:105

166 telegram of congratulations: Kautsky 1924:95, 97

"Too bad": Geiss 1967:114

167 "Austrian words": Albertini 1952 II:277

CHAPTER 28: THE SECRET IS KEPT

170 "Italian diplomats could not even arrange": Bosworth 1983:121

171 Williamson, who relates this story: Williamson 1991:201

"Austro-Hungarian government are in no mood": Albertini 1952 II:184

"Austria was capable of taking an irrevocable step": Ibid.

"only a very small circle of men": Berghahn 1993:197

CHAPTER 29: THE
FAIT
IS NOT
ACCOMPLI

175 "unacceptable to the dignity": Albertini 1952 II:184–85

176 "a larger measure of sovereign independence":
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11
th ed., s.v. "Bavaria"

Schoen explained: Geiss 1967:127–30

177 "one expects a localization": Berghahn 1993:209

"practically excluded":
Kautsky 1924:113

"a stagnant mood": Ibid.:126

"the demands were really of such a nature": Ibid.: 141

In the words of . . . Morton: Morton 2001:298

178 On a motion from Berchtold: Geiss 1967:139

"Berlin was beginning to get nervous": Ibid.

179 "should remain localized": Ibid.: 142

"he knew nothing about it": Ibid.: 154

180 Rumbold . . . Eyre Crowe: Geiss 1967:159; Albertini 1952 II:212

Bullitt: Fromkin 1995:98

Moltke . . . asked . . . to provoke a world war soon: Röhl 1973:29

181 "everything that exists upside down": Berghahn 1993:201

"a leap in the dark": Ibid.

"paralyzed": Ibid.

"The future belongs to Russia": Ibid.:201–202

182 As Grey writes: Grey 1925 I:283–90

The Chancellor brooded: Berghahn 1993:209

183 Grey "believed that a peaceful solution": Kautsky 1924:144–45

"an exceptional tranquility": W. Churchill 1923:178

"The strange calm of the European situation": Ibid.:181

184 "the cry of Civil War": Hyde 1953:370

King George . . ."
emotionné":
Brock and Brock 1985:122

CHAPTER 30: PRESENTING AN ULTIMATUM

185 "a kind of indictment": Albertini 1952 II:280

Austria was preparing: Ibid.:282

187 the oft-quoted lines: W. Churchill 1923:193

188 "a real Armageddon": Brock and Brock 1985:122–23