CHAPTER 6: BREAKING THE DEADLOCK

1 Alexander Murray, ‘Remembrance’, Oxford Magazine, no. 208 (2002), p. 10.

2 Jean Bernier, La Percée (Paris, 1920), quoted in Edmund Blunden (ed.) Great Short Stories of the War (London, 1933), p. 311.

3 Alexandre Arnoux, Le Cabaret (Paris, 1919), quoted in ibid., p. 127.

4 Charles Edmonds [Carrington], A Subaltern’s War (London, 1930), p. 23.

5 George Coppard, With a Machine Gun to Cambrai (London, 1969), pp. 24-5.

6 J. C. Dunn, The War the Infantry Knew, 1914-1919 (London, 1987; first published 1938), pp. 192, 195-6.

7 Gerd Hardach, The First World War 1914-1918 (London, 1977), p. 80.

8 Arthur J. Marder, Fear God and Dread Nought: The Correspondence of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Fisher of Kilverstone (3 vols, London, 1952-9), vol. 3, p. 238.

9 Abel Ferry, Les Carnets secrets (1914-1918) (Paris, 1957), p. 88.

10 Description by Queen Marie of Romania, quoted in Glenn Torrey, Henri Mathias Berthelot (Iai, 2001), p. 191.

11 Margaret H. Darrow, French Women and the First World War (Oxford, 2000), p. 185.

12 Ute Daniel, The War from Within: German Working-class Women in the First World War (Oxford, 1997), pp. 46-7.

13 Angela Woollacott, On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (Berkeley, CA, 1994), p. 82.

14 Robert Blake (ed.), The Private Papers of Douglas Haig (London, 1952), p. 93.

15 Maréchal Fayolle, Carnets secrets de la Grande Guerre, ed. Henri Contamine (Paris, 1963), p. 169.

16 Robert Foley, Alfred von Schlieffen’s Military Writings (London, 2003), p. 199.

17 Cyril Falls, ‘Contact with Troops: Commanders and Staffs in the First World War’, Army Quarterly, vol. 88, no. 2 (1964), p. 179.

18 David French, ‘The Meaning of Attrition’, English Historical Review, vol. 103 (1988), p. 395.

19 M. Daille, Joffre et la guerre d‘usure 1915-1916 (Paris, 1936), p. 170.

20 Pierre Miquel, Les Poilus (Paris, 2000), p. 228.

21 Karl von Einem, Ein Armeeführer erleht den Weltkrieg (Leipzig, 1938), pp. 150-1.

22 Miquel, Les Poilus, p. 229.

23 Charles Mangin, Lettres de guerre 1914-1918 (Paris, 1950), p. 59.

24 E. L. Spears, Prelude to Victory (London, 1939), p. 33.

25 David Woodward, Lloyd George and the Generals (Newark, 1983), p. 77.

26 French, ’The Meaning of Attrition‘, p. 398.

27 Daille, Joffre et la guerre d’usure, p. 256.

28 Elizabeth Greenhalgh, ‘Why the British Were on the Somme in 1916’, War in History, vol. 6 (1999), p. 156.

29 Jacques Péricard, Verdun. Histoire des combats qui sont livrés de 1914 à 1918 sur les deux rives de La Meuse (Paris, 1934), p. 80.

30 German Werth, Verdun. Die Schlacht und der Mythos (Bergisch Gladbach, 1979), p. 72.

31 Alistair Horne, The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (London, 1962), p. 39.

32 Ian Ousby, The Road to Verdun: France, Nationalism and the First World War (London, 2002), p. 195.

33 Stephen Ryan, Pétain the Soldier (Cranbury, NJ, 1969), p. 74.

34 Philippe Pétain, Verdun, trans. Margaret MacVeagh (London, 1936), pp. 100-1.

35 Ousby, The Road to Verdun, p. 206.

36 Gerard De Groot, Douglas Haig, 1861-1928 (London, 1988), p. 238.

37 Guy Chapman, Vain Glory (London, 1937), p. 320.

38 Tim Travers, The Killing Ground: The British Army, the Western Front and the Emergence of Modern Warfare 1900-1918 (London, 1987), p. 178.

39 Fayolle, Cahiers secrets, p. 167.

40 P. Lucas, L’Evolution des idées tactigues en France et en Allemagne pendant la guerre de 1914-1918 (Paris, 1924), p. 158.

41 David Woodward, ‘Britain in a Continental War: The Civil-Military Debate over the Strategical Direction of the Great War of 1914-1918’, Albion, vol. 12 (1980), pp. 37-65.