by Lloyd, Nick
Cheltenham, England
December 2012
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Archive sources
Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv, Freiburg
Guido Hermann (Pers 9/1.1.97); Wilhelm Wilhöft (Pers 9/1.1.99); Cyrus Karl (Pers 9/1.7.93); Karl Passhaus (Pers 9/1.7.94); Anonymous letters ‘Alfred’ (MSG2/5792); Anonymous letters ‘Josef’ (MSG2/5548); Erich Alenfeld (MSG2/1291); Paul Ludwig (BIV21); Hans Mahler (MSG2/13746); Richard and Willy Schütt (MSG2/5710); Karl Urmacher (MSG2/10347); 41st Division War Diary (PH8I/385); 75th Reserve Division War Diary (PH8II/83); Feldpost Postüberwachung beim AOK 5 (RH61/1035)
Canadian War Museum, Ottawa
Clifford M. Johnston (58A 1 187.1); Keith Campbell MacGowan (58A 1 154.4); E. W. B. Morrison (58A 1 20.3); Frank C. Teskey (58A 1 237.6)
Imperial War Museum, London
T. Brookbank (99/13/1); C. W. Clarke (81/1/1); G. T. Coles (03/58/1 and Con Shelf); R. G. Dixon (92/36/1); R. C. Foot (86/57/1); T. F. Grady (06/62/1); T. H. Holmes (06/30/1); H. J. C. Marshall (84/11/2); T. G. Mohan (80/28/1); H. C. Rees (77/179/1); F. J. Rice (78/29/1); A. J. Turner (81/21/1)
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa
Sir Arthur Currie (MG30 E100); Arthur J. Foster (MG30 E393); William Green (MG30 E430); Albert C. West (MG30 E32); William B. Woods (MG31 G30); interviews from CBS documentary In Flanders Fields (RG41, Volumes 7–21) War diaries and unit reports of the Canadian Corps held online at: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/02015202_e.html
Service Historique de la Défense, Vincennes
War diaries and unit reports of the French Army held online at: http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/jmo/cdc.html
The National Archives, London
HQ Tank Corps, June–September 1918 (WO 95/94); HQ Branches & Services, General Staff First Army, October 1918–March 1919 (WO 95/180); HQ Branches & Services, General Staff Third Army, August 1918 (WO 95/372); HQ Branches & Services, General Staff Fourth Army, July–September 1918 (WO 95/437-8); HQ Branches & Services, General Staff 5th Division, April 1918–February 1919 (WO 95/1516); 13 Infantry Brigade HQ, April 1918–May 1919 (WO 95/1551); 15/Royal Warwickshire Regiment War Diary, April–October 1918 (WO 95/1557); GHQ Summary of Intelligence, August 1918 (WO 157/34); Third Army Intelligence Summaries, October–November 1918 (WO 157/166-7); Fourth Army Intelligence Summaries, July–October 1918 (WO 157/196-9); Haig–Foch Correspondence (WO 158/29)
The United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Hakon Anderson (WWI 6801); John E. Ausland (WWI 146); L. M. Beyer (WWI 2305); William T. Carpenter (WWI 8178); John D. Clarke (WWI 369); Frank L. Faulkner (WWI 246); Clair Groover (WWI 2450); Frank W. Groves (WWI 3345); Malcolm B. Helm (WWI 2487); Ernst Kielmayer (WWI 2832); Joseph D. Lawrence (WWI 561); Herbert L. McHenry (WWI 8188); James E. Meehan (WWI 380); Walter J. Strauss (WWI 1827); Ralph L. Williams (WWI 5499); Sophie G. Winton (WWI 6171); Harold Woehl (WWI 456)
Other archive material
Bertram Howard Cox (www.canadianletters.ca); Arthur Impey (http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/tucker/tuckerbiography.htm); C. H. Savage (www.canadianletters.ca); George Waters (private collection)
Secondary sources
Official histories and reports
T. von Bose, Die Katastrophe des 8. August 1918 (Berlin: Stalling, 1930) Bundesarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918, XIV: Die Kriegführung an der Westfront im Jahre 1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1944)
Sir J. Edmonds (ed.), Military Operations France and Belgium 1918, III, May–July: The German Diversion Offensives and the First Allied Counter-Offensive (London: Macmillan & Co., 1939)
— (ed.), Military Operations France and Belgium 1918, IV, 8th August–26th September. The Franco-British Offensive (London: HMSO, 1947)
Sir J. Edmonds and R. Maxwell-Hyslop (eds.), Military Operations France and Belgium 1918, V, 26th September–11th November. The Advance to Victory (London: HMSO, 1947)
H. A. Jones, The War in the Air. Being the Story of the Part Played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force (6 vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922–37)
Sir W. G. Macpherson, Medical Services. Diseases of the War, I (London: HMSO, 1921)
—, Medical Services General History, III, Medical Services during the Operations on the Western Front in 1916, 1917 and 1918; in Italy; and in Egypt and Palestine (London: HMSO, 1924)
J. J. Pershing, Final Report of Gen. John J. Pershing (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919)
P. Pétain, Report by the Field Marshal Commander-in-Chief of the French Armies of the North and Northeast on the Operations in 1918. The Offensive Campaign (18 July–11 November 1918) (3 parts, trans. A. Woldike) (Part II: Château-Thierry–Soissons Counter-Offensive (18 July–6 August); Part III: Montdidier–Noyon Offensive and the Advance towards the Hindenburg Position (1st August–15th September)
Reichskriegsministerium Heeressanitätsinspektion, Sanitätsbericht über das Deutsche Heer (3 vols., Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1934–8)
A. Stenger, Schicksalswende. Von der Marne bis zur Vesle 1918 (Berlin: Stalling, 1930)
US Department for the Army, Historical Division, Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914–1918) (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1920)
—, United States Army in the World War, 1917–1919 (17 vols., Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1948)
Biographical sources
Sir G. Aston, The Biography of the Late Marshal Foch (London: Hutchinson, 1932)
M. Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: The Cresset Press, 1964)
W. Foerster, Der Feldherr Ludendorff im Unglück (Wiesbaden: Limes Verlag, 1952)
E. Greenhalgh, Foch in Command. The Forging of a First World War General (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
J. Grigg, Lloyd George. War Leader 1916–1918 (London: Penguin, 2003; first publ. 2002)
J. P. Harris, Douglas Haig and the First World War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
D. Hibberd, Wilfred Owen. A New Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002)
B. H. Liddell Hart, Reputations (London: John Murray, 1928)
C. Mangin, Lettres de guerre 1914–1918, ed. L. Eugène (Paris: Fayard, 1950)
A. Niemann, Revolution von oben – Umsturz von unten (Berlin: Verlag für Kulturpolitik, 1928)
W. Owen, The Poems of Wilfred Owen, ed. J. Stallworthy (London: Chatto & Windus, 1990)
—, Selected Letters, ed. J. Bell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985)
R. Prior and T. Wilson, Command on the Western Front. The Military Career of Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1914–1918 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
G. Sheffield, The Chief. Douglas Haig and the British Army (London: Aurum Press, 2011)
J. Stallworthy, Wilfred Owen. A Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977)
J. Terraine, Douglas Haig. The Educated Soldier (London: Cassell, 2000; first publ. 1963)
D. T. Zabeki (ed.), Chief of Staff. The Principal Officers behind History’s Great Commanders, I (Annapolis, Md: Naval Institute Press, 2008)
Memoirs
Prince Max of Baden, The Memoirs of Prince Max of Baden, trans. W. M. Calder and C. W. H. Sutton (2 vols., London: Constable, 1928)
R. Binding, A Fatalist at War, trans. I. F. D. Morrow (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929)
G. Bucher, In the Line 1914–1918, trans. Norman Gullick (Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2005; first publ. 1932)
C. M. Chenu, Du képi rouge aux chars d’assaut (Paris: Albin Michel, 1932)
M. E. Debeney, La Guerre et les hommes. Réflexions d’après-guerre (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1937)
C. Degelow, Germany’s Last Knight in the Air. The Memoirs of Major Carl Degelow, trans and ed. P. Kilduff (London: William Kimber, 1979)
F. Foch, The Memoirs of Marshal Foch, trans. T. Bentley Mott (London: William Heinemann, 1931)
M. von Gallwitz, Erleben im Westen 1916�
�1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1932)
J. Glubb, Into Battle. A Soldier’s Diary of the Great War (London: Cassell, 1978) W. Görlitz (ed.), The Kaiser and His Court. The Diaries, Note Books and Letters of Admiral Georg Alexander von Müller, Chief of the Naval Cabinet, 1914–1918 (London: Macdonald & Co., 1961; first publ. 1959)
W. Groener, Lebenserinnerungen. Jugend. Generalstab. Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1957)
Sir D. Haig, War Diaries and Letters 1914–1918, eds. G. Sheffield and J. Bourne (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005)
P. von Hindenburg, Out of My Life, trans. F. A. Holt (London: Cassell & Company, 1920)
F. A. Holden, War Memories (Athens, Ga: Athens Book Company, 1922)
E. M. House, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House, ed. C. Seymour (4 vols., London: Ernest Benn, 1928)
D. von Kuhl, Entstehung, Durchführung und Zusammenbruch der Offensive von 1918 (Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1927)
H. Liggett, Commanding an American Army (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1925)
—, AEF. Ten Years Ago in France (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1928)
D. Lloyd George, War Memoirs of David Lloyd George (2 vols., London: Odhams Press, 1933–6)
F. von Lossberg, Meine Tätigkeit im Weltkrieg 1914–1918 (Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1939)
E. von Ludendorff, Concise Ludendorff Memoirs 1914–1918 (London: Hutchinson, 1933)
M. Ludendorff, My Married Life with Ludendorff, trans. R. Somerset (London: Hutchinson, 1930)
E. E. Mackin, Suddenly We Didn’t Want to Die. Memoirs of a World War I Marine (Novato, Calif.: Presidio Press, 1993)
G. C. Marshall, Memoirs of My Services in the World War 1917–1918 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976)
G. von der Marwitz, Weltkriegsbriefe, ed. E. von Tschischwitz (Berlin: Steiniger-Verlage, 1940)
P. Maze, A Frenchman in Khaki (Kingswood: William Heinemann, 1934) Sir J. Monash, The Australian Victories in France in 1918 (London: Hutchinson, 1920)
F. E. Noakes, The Distant Drum. A Memoir of a Guardsman in the Great War (Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2010)
Sir W. Orpen, An Onlooker in France 1917–1919 (London: Williams & Norgate, 1921)
J. J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War (2 vols., New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1931)
Crown Prince Rupprecht, Mein Kriegstagebuch (3 vols., Berlin: E. S. Mittler und Sohn, 1929)
P. Scheidemann, Memoirs of a Social Democrat, trans. J. E. Michell (2 vols., London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1929)
R. Stark, Wings of War. A German Airman’s Diary of the Last Year of the Great War, trans. C. W. Sykes (London: Greenhill Books, 1988)
H. Sulzbach, With the German Guns. Four Years on the Western Front 1914–1918, trans. R. Thonger (London: Frederick Warne, 1981; first publ. 1973)
M. Weygand, Mémoires. Idéal vécu (Paris: Flammarion, 1953)
Crown Prince Wilhelm, The Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1922)
Wilhelm II of Germany, The Kaiser’s Memoirs, trans. T. R. Ybarra (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1922)
A. Williams, Experiences of the Great War (Roanoake, Va: Stone, 1919)
Unit histories
C. E. W. Bean, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 (12 vols., Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1941–2)
C. A. Bill, The 15th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment (and Birmingham Battalion) in the Great War (Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, 1932)
T. Carter, Birmingham Pals. 14th, 15th & 16th (Service) Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment: A History of the Three City Battalions Raised in Birmingham in World War One (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 1997)
A. Grasset, La Guerre en action, Montdidier. Le 8 août 1918 à la 42ème Division (Paris: Éditions Berger-Levrault, 1930)
A. H. Hussey and D. S. Inman, The Fifth Division in the Great War (London: Nisbet & Co., 1921)
Sir A. Montgomery, The Story of Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918 (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920)
R. E. Priestley, Breaking the Hindenburg Line. The Story of the 46th (North Midland) Division (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1919)
General accounts
R. B. Asprey, The German High Command at War. Hindenburg and Ludendorff and the First World War (London: Warner Books, 1994; first publ. 1991)
M. Baumont, The Fall of the Kaiser, trans. E. I. James (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1931)
D. Blair, The Battle of Bellicourt Tunnel. Tommies, Diggers and Doughboys on the Hindenburg Line, 1918 (Barnsley: Frontline Books, 2011)
J. Boff, Winning and Losing on the Western Front. The British Third Army and the Defeat of Germany in 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
T. Cook, No Place to Run. The Canadian Corps and Gas Warfare in the First World War (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1999)
—, Shock Troops. Canadians Fighting the Great War 1917–1918 (Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2008)
J. J. Cooke, Pershing and His Generals. Command and Staff in the AEF (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997)
G. Dallas, 1918. War and Peace (London: John Murray, 2000)
P. Dennis and J. Grey (eds.), 1918. Defining Victory (Canberra: Army History Unit, 1999)
R. A. Doughty, Pyrrhic Victory. French Strategy and Operations in the Great War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2008; first publ. 2005)
A. Elkins (ed.), 1918. Year of Victory: The End of the Great War and the Shaping of Victory (Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2010)
J. F. C. Fuller, Tanks in the Great War 1914–1918 (London: John Murray, 1920) P. Griffith, Battle Tactics of the Western Front. The British Army’s Art of Attack 1916–1918 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994)
— (ed.), British Fighting Methods in the Great War (London: Frank Cass, 1996) M. E. Grotelueschen, The AEF Way of War. The American Army and Combat in World War I (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007)
J. P. Guéno and Y. Laplume (eds.), Paroles de poilus. Lettres et carnets du front 1914–1918 (Paris: Radio France, 1998)
J. H. Hallas, Squandered Victory. The American First Army at St Mihiel (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1995)
— (ed.), Doughboy War. The American Expeditionary Force in World War I (London and Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2000)
J. P. Harris and N. Barr, Amiens to the Armistice (London: Brassey’s, 1998)
H. Herwig, The First World War. Germany and Austria-Hungary 1914–1918 (London: Arnold, 1997)
I. V. Hull, Absolute Destruction. Military Culture and Practices of War in Imperial Germany (London and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005)
R. Jackson, Aces’ Twilight. The War in the Air, 1918 (London: Sphere, 1988)
M. Kitchen, The Silent Dictatorship. The Politics of the German High Command under Hindenburg and Ludendorff, 1916–1918 (London: Croom Helm, 1976)
E. G. Lengel, To Conquer Hell. The Battle of Meuse–Argonne (New York: Henry Holt, 2009)
B. Lowry, Armistice 1918 (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1996)
G. Mead, Doughboys. America and the First World War (London: Penguin Books, 2001)
C. Messenger, The Day We Won the War. Turning Point at Amiens 8th August 1918 (London: Phoenix, 2009; first publ. 2008)
J. McWilliams and R. J. Steel, Amiens. Dawn of Victory (Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2001)
M. S. Neiberg, The Second Battle of the Marne (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2008)
E. Otto, The Battle at Blanc Mont (October 2 to October 10, 1918), trans. Martin Lichtenberg (Annapolis, Md: United States Naval Institute, 1930)
R. Paschall, The Defeat of Imperial Germany 1917–1918 (Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 1989)
S. B. Schreiber, Shock Army of the British Empire. The Canadian Corps in the Last 100 Days of the Great War (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1997)
R. Slotkin, Lost Battalions. The Great War and the Crisis of American Nationality (New
York: Henry Holt, 2005)
S. Stephenson, The Final Battle. Soldiers of the Western Front and the German Revolution of 1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
D. Stevenson, With Our Backs to the Wall. Victory and Defeat in 1918 (London: Allen Lane, 2011)
J. Terraine, To Win a War. 1918: The Year of Victory (London: Cassell, 2000; first publ. 1978)
D. F. Trask, The AEF and Coalition Warmaking, 1917–1918 (Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, 1993)
T. Travers, How the War was Won. Command and Technology in the British Army on the Western Front, 1917–1918 (Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2005; first publ., 1992)
G. S. Viereck (ed.), As They Saw Us. Foch, Ludendorff and Other Leaders Write Our War History (Cranbury, NJ: Scholar’s Bookshelf, 2005; first publ. 1929)
A. Watson, Enduring the Great War. Combat, Morale and Collapse in the German and British Armies, 1914–1918 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
M. A. Yockelson, Borrowed Soldiers. Americans under British Command, 1918 (Norman, Ohio: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008)
D. Zabecki, The German 1918 Offensives. A Case Study in the Operational Level of War (London and New York: Routledge, 2006)
Articles
W. H. Anderson, ‘The Breaking of the Quéant–Drocourt Line by the Canadian Corps, First Army 2nd–4th September, 1918’, Canadian Defence Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 1 (January 1926), pp. 120–27