"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.
Fa
lkenhayn . . . 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
"Europe is trembling": R. Churchill 1969:1987–88
"a document . . . so formidable": Great Britain 1915:30–31
Lichnowsky reported: Kautsky 1924:184–85
189 "did not aim at a territorial gain": Albertini 1952 II:378
190 "Then it is war": Ibid.
"You are setting fire to Europe": Ibid.:291
191 "Russia is rapidly becoming": Evans and Strandmann 1990:76
"saw their position": Ibid.:77
"ten states": Ibid.
"242,000 were on strike": Ibid.
192 "enough for all": Massie 1996:186
193 "in strict confidence": Kautsky 1924:180
"unable to counsel Vienna": Ibid.
Berchtold an "Ass!": Ibid.:182
194 Hayne tells us: Hayne 1993:294–95
"an . . . internal affair": Geiss 1967:180
CHAPTER 31: SERBIA MORE OR LESS ACCEPTS
195 A "pretty strong note": Görlitz 1961:5
"to express his despair": Albertini 1952 II:348
196 Ballin . . . "disappointment" . . . "joy": Fischer 1975:464–65
197 "demands could bring about": Geiss 1967:200–201; Albertini 1952 II:372
198 "Bravo! One would not have believed it": Kautsky 1924:186
"neither London . . . wants war": Evans and Strandmann 1990:102
CHAPTER 32: SHOWDOWN IN BERLIN
201 reports of the Saxon and Bavarian: Berghahn 1993:212
202 "the almost complete destruction of Moltke's papers 'precludes formal connection' ": Mombauer 2001:186
"would be pleased if war were to come": Ibid.:187
"an opportunity rather than a threat": Ibid.
203 Russia's mobilization . . . smaller scale: Ibid.:200
204 As Conrad saw it. . . Austria would crush Serbia: W. Churchill 1931:120–26
"the most modern in Europe": Keegan 1999:77–78
CHAPTER 33: JULY 26
206 "official hours . . . twelve to six": Steiner 1969:12
207 "War is thought imminent": Albertini 1952 II:390
"Russia cannot allow Austria": Ibid.
"Russia is trying to drag us": Brock and Brock 1985:125–26
208 "he thought there would be peace": Riddell 1986:84
"Only a calendar of events": Steiner 1977:219
"a European forum": Albertini 1952 II:404
209 "Berlin is playing with us": Geiss 1967:235
210 In Conrad's account: Ibid.:227
He "urgently entreated" Germany: Kautsky 1924:220–21
211 Moltke . . . "very dissatisfied": Mombauer 2001:197
CHAPTER 34: JULY 27
212 "You have cooked the broth": Bülow 1931 II:184
213 Bethmann explained ". . . it is not possible for us to refuse": Fischer 1967:70
"If Germany candidly told Sir E. Grey": Geiss 1967:236
215 The press lord . . . among those present: Riddell 1986:85
"war . . . by no means impossible": R. Churchill 1969:1988
216 The small war . . . to a big one: Geiss 1967:239
"Our entire future relations with England": Ibid.:240
"it would never again be possible": Ibid.:241
"war is inevitable": Albertini 1952 II:416
"allow Russia to put herself in the wrong": Berghahn 1993:216
"Austro-Hungarian note was so drawn up": Great Britain 1915:74
CHAPTER 35: JULY 28
217 "It has now been decided to fight": Herwig 1997:26
218 "singularly favorable situation": Berghahn 1993:212
"every cause for war has vanished": Geiss 1967:256
"never have ordered a mobilization": Clark 2000:208
"Nevertheless, the piece of paper": Geiss 1967:256
The Austrians were to be told . . . no longer: Clark 2000:208–209
219 "Perhaps the most striking thing": Ibid.:209
"The Kaiser absolutely wants peace": Mombauer 2001:199
"made confused speeches": Clark 2000:208
"no longer had control": Herwig 1997:26
House . . . "military oligarchy" . . . "determined on war": Ensor 1936:484
220 Serbian troops had opened fire: Albertini 1952 II:460–61
"chiefly to frustrate . . . intervention": Kautsky 1924:243
221 "the frivolous provocation": Berghahn 1993:216
222 "upon a preparatory precautionary basis": R. Churchill 1967:692
"everything tends towards catastrophe": Ibid.:694
"It looks ominous": Brock and Brock 1985:161
CHAPTER 36: JULY 29
224 "Germany was likewise obliged to mobilize": Albertini 1952 II:499
"war which will annihilate the civilization": Ibid.:488–89
224 Chancellor . . . "had collapsed": Ibid.:495
225 "in order to keep England neutral": Ibid.:498
To his ambassador in Austria: Albertini 1952 III:1
226 "In order to prevent general catastrophe": Ibid.:2
In diplomatic language: Albertini 1952 II:513–14
"We have been trying to accomplish this": Kautsky 1924:319–22
"unless Austria is willing": Ibid.:3i3
227 "England alone": Ibid.:319–22
"It is one of the ironies of the case": Brock and Brock 1985:132
"as darkness fell": W. Churchill 1923:212
CHAPTER 37: JULY 30
229 Stengers has shown: Wilson 1995:125
230 "all too late": Kautsky 1924:368
"It will hardly be possible . . . Russia's shoulders": Ibid.:372
"the incontrovertible suspicion": Ibid.
"behind my back": Albertini 1952 III:2
231 "I have got to mobilize as well!": Ibid.:3
could "remain mobile behind their frontier": Lieven 1983:146
"Right, that is it": Kautsky 1924:375; Cimbala 1996:389
232 "Russia does not intend to wage war": Berghahn 1993:217
"War must not be declared on Russia": Ibid.
"His changes of mood": Mombauer 2001:205
"Irresponsibility and weakness": Albertini 1952 III:34
233 "expectant and excited women": Bonham-Carter 1965:305
Viviani cabled: Wilson 1995:127
"in the precautionary measures": Albertini 1952 II:604
"the prospect very black today": Brock and Brock 1985:136
CHAPTER 38: JULY 31
234 Jules Cambon . . . cabled: Hayne 1993:293
Williamson suggests: Williamson 1991:207 n. 122
235 "the peace of Europe . . . maintained": Albertini 1952 III:37
"I thank you . . . for your mediation": Ibid.:56
"extraordinarily near to war": Ibid.:62
"There is still hope": Gilbert 1975:21
236 "keep out at almost all costs": Brock and Brock 1985:138
" 'We shall all be ruined' ": Riddell 1986:85
"very strong" . . . against intervention: Gilbert 1971:21
Churchill told Smith: Ibid.:22
CHAPTER 39: AUGUST I
237 "L1. George—all for peace": Brock and Brock 1985:140
"It is our whole future": R. Churchill 1969:701
238 "I am most profoundly anxious": Ibid.
"these measures do not mean war": Massie 1996:258
239 "Nobody today can have a notion": Mombauer 2001:206
" 'Then we simply deploy' ": Albertini 1952 III:172
240 "my heart would break": Ibid.: 176
"there must be some misunderstanding": Ibid.: 177
241 "War declared by Germany on Russia": Beaverbrook 1960:29
242 "one of my strangest experiences": Brock and Brock 1985:140
"I run to the War Ministry": Evans and Strandmann 1990:120
"The mood is brilliant": Ibid.
CHAPTER 40: AUGUST 2
244 We have no obligation: Brock and Brock 1985:146
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