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“Every position must be held”: Essame, 48.
“The conquest was a nightmare”: Gies, 118.
“a gigantic struggle beginning”: Parkinson, 149.
On April 24 nine divisions: Keegan,
Illustrated History
, 374.
“Gray-blue figures out of the half-buried”: Gies, 121.
General von Kuhl, chief of staff: Kuhl’s view of the consequences of the failure are in Pitt, 130.
His casualties since the start of Michael: Numbers are in Barnett, 331.
“The absence of our old”: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 53.
Though French and British losses: Numbers of arriving American troops are in Palmer,
Victory 1918
, 177.
An office was established in Paris: The 12-million-ton figure is in Freidel, 73.
The Americans would install: Eisenhower, 57.
It broadened conscription, drafting: Gies, 124.
The French had 103 divisions: Ibid., 143.
“
J’ai dit”:
Essame, 58.
More than twenty divisions were assembled: The numbers and the words in quotes are in Essame, 59.
“Hundreds upon hundreds of wounded”: Heyman, 122.
“We are supposed to care”:Ibid, 124.
More than fteen thousand women:Ibid, 120-21.
“For the first time I was going”:Ibid, 122.
In France 85 percent of women:The data are in Steven C. Hause, “More Minerva than Mars: the French Women’s Rights Campaign and the First World War,” in Higonnet et al, 106.
In Germany alone more than five million:Ferguson, 267-68.
Female employment in French munitions factories:Hause, “More Minerva,” in Higonnet et al, 104.
In Germany alone more than one and a half million:The data are in Karin Hausen:“The German Nation’s Obligation to the Heroes’Widows of World War I,” in Higonnet et al, 128.
Hutier’s troops advanced:German gains are in Essame, 72.
By the end one hundred and eighty-six thousand German:Terraine,
To Win a War
, 150.
“had probably the greatest capacity”:Serle, 377.
Eleven days after Hamel—one wonders how:Pitt, 179.
Twenty-three divisions, four of them American:Gies, 229.
“Machine guns raved everywhere”:Terraine,
To Win a War
, 78.
In March the Germans had had three hundred thousand:The numbers in this paragraph are in Essame, 101.
“Midnight,” a German soldier:Gies, 248.
The Germans lost more than six hundred and fty officers:Ibid, 131.
The troops were in such a sorry state:Parkinson, 164.
On the second day they were driven back:Herwig, 370.
But Britain and France alike:Drafting of fty-year-old Britons is in Paschall, 165.
Workers at ammunition factories:British labor troubles are in Terraine,
To Win a War
, 126.
Their casualties in August alone:German casualties, and the following sentence on the declining number of divisions, are in Herwig, 424.
“dangerous and likely to lead”:Palmer,
Gardeners of Salonika
, 49.
It included one hundred and sixty thousand men:Troop numbers are in ibid;the January 1916 total on 52, the May total on 63.
Rumors circulated to the effect that:Ibid, 95.
The Entente had more than half a million:Pope and Wheal, 418.
“the gardeners of Salonika”:Palmer,
Gardeners of Salonika
, 71.
“I bear you no ill-will”:Ibid, 183.
“I expect from you savage vigor”:Ibid, 186.
Two hundred and fty thousand Greek:Pope and Wheal, 418.
“The man could escape even now”:Parkinson, 175.
On the British part of the front:Essame, 149.
“for nearly three years the last”: Swettenham, 33.
“the pride and wonder of the British”: Ibid., 171.
“He had a tremendous command of profanity”: Dancocks, 18.
They never once failed: Ibid., 174.
He wanted not only to capture: Essame, 155.
Fifteen thousand German troops: Ibid., 158.
But Pershing had eight hundred and twenty thousand men: Ibid., 157.
“We could not answer every single cry”: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 131.
“as a result of the collapse”: Palmer,
Gardeners of Salonika
, 228.
Ludendorff, all options exhausted: Ritter, 4:339.
“clung to that news like a drowning”: Ibid., 4:340.
The war had rarely been bloodier: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 224.
“I have seen prisoners coming”: Ibid., 129.
The French now had nearly 40 percent: Clayton, 163.
When the Canadians finally broke through: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 166.
Almost ninety percent of the men: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 163.
“revolution from above”: Ritter, 4:342.
“broken and suddenly aged man”: Terraine,
To Win a War
, 158.
“the one prominent royalist liberal”: Palmer,
Victory 1918
, 234.
General Wilhelm Gröner: Gröner’s report on missing troops is in Herwig, 442.
The blood continued to flow: French casualties are in Clayton, 162.
“If the Government of the United States”: Parkinson, 181.
“Our enemies merely pay”: Ritter, 4:365.
In Italy an Allied force of fifty-six divisions: division numbers are in Herwig, 436.
“soldier’s honor”: Ritter, 4:366.
“I am a plain ordinary citizen”: Ibid., 367.
“You will stay”: Ibid., 368.
“looking forward to proposals”: Ibid., 369.
He received thirty-nine replies: Herwig, 445.
These included German withdrawal: The terms of the Treaty of Versailles are examined clearly and in detail in Sharp, 102-29.
“No no no!”: Essame, 205.
Something on the order of 9.5 million men: Overall casualty figures are in Ferguson, 295.
“Central Europe is aflame”: Sharp, 130.
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