The Guns of August (78 page)

L
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C
ARY
, G
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,
Souvenirs de commandement, 1914–16,
Paris, Payot, 1935.

L
ANREZAC
, G
ÉNÉRAL
C
HARLES
,
Le Plan de campagne français et le premier mois de la guerre,
Paris, Payot, 1920.

L
IBERMANN
, H
ENRI
,
Ce qu’a vu en officier de chasseurs à pied. Ardennes belges-Marne-St. Gond, 2 Aôut-28 Septembre, 1914, Paris,
Plon, 1916.

M
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, L
EOPOLD
,
Politique et politiciens pendant la guerre,
Vol. I, Paris, Renaissance, 1923.

M
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T
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OL
. E
MILE
,
Nos chefs de 1914,
Paris, Stock, 1930.

M
ESSIMY
, G
ÉNÉRAL
A
DOLPHE
,
Mes Souvenirs,
Paris, Plon, 1937. There is something about everything in Messimy. As packed with information as Galet’s book on Belgium, it is, in contrast, as effervescent, voluble, and uninhibited as Galet’s is taciturn and disciplined. The work of a man who was Minister of War at two crucial periods, July 1911 and August 1914, it is, like Galet, Churchill, and the Kautsky documents, an essential source for material not published elsewhere.

M
OTT
, C
OL
., T. B
ENTLEY
,
Myron T. Herrick, Friend of France,
New York, Doubleday, Doran, 1929. (Chiefly excerpts from diary and letters.)

M
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, C
OMMANDANT
V
IRGILE
(aide-de-camp to Joffre),
Joffre et la Marne,
Paris, Cres, 1931.

P
ALAT
, G
ÉNÉRAL
B
ARTHÉLMY
,
La Grande Guerre sur le front occidental,
Vols. I-IV, Paris, Chapelot, 1920–27.

P
ALÉOLOGUE
, M
AURICE
,
Un Grand Tournant de la politique mondiale, 1904–06,
Paris, Plon, 1934.

———, “Un Prélude à l’invasion de Belgique,”
Revue des Deux Mondes,
October, 1932.

P
ERCIN
, G
ÉNÉRAL
A
LEXANDRE
(Member of Supreme War Council in 1911 and Governor of Lille in 1914),
1914, Les erreurs du haut commandement,
Paris, Michel, 1920.

P
IERREFEU
, J
EAN DE
(a journalist by profession who, as an officer, was attached
to GQG to prepare the communiqués for publication),
GQG. Secteur I,
Paris, Edition française Illustrée, 1920.

———,
Plutarque a menti,
Paris, Grasset, 1923.

P
OINCARÉ
, R
AYMOND
,
Mémoirs,
4 vols., tr. Sir George Arthur, New York, Doubleday, 1926–29. In fact, if not in name, Poincaré was the central figure politically as Joffre was militarily, and his record is invaluable as guide and commentary to the war, French politics, international affairs, and the civil conflict with GQG. The English edition is abridged and has a confusing habit of referring under diary entries of a certain date to events that have not yet happened.

T
ANANT
, G
ÉNÉRAL
(Chief of Operations in the French Third Army),
La Troisième Armée dans la bataille,
Paris, Renaissance, 1923.

V
IVIANI
, R
ENÉ
,
As We See It,
tr. New York, Harper’s, 1923.

W
HARTON
, E
DITH
(who was living in Paris in August, 1914),
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New York, Scribner’s, 1915.

On Germany

B
AUER
, C
OLONEL
M. (Chief of Artillery section at OHL),
Der Grosse Krieg in Feld und Heimat,
Tübingen, Osiander, 1921.

B
ERNHARDI
, G
ENERAL
F
RIEDRICH VON
,
Germany and the Next War,
tr. Allen H. Powles, London, E. Arnold, 1914.

B
ETHMANN
-H
OLLWEG
, T
HEODOR VON
,
Reflections on the World War,
tr. London, Butterworth, 1920.

B
LOEM
, W
ALTER
(Reserve Captain of Brandenburg Grenadiers in IIIrd Corps of von Kluck’s Army),
The Advance from Mons, 1914,
tr. G. C. Wynne, London, Davies, 1930.

B
LüCHER
, E
VELYN
, P
RINCESS
,
An English Wife in Berlin,
London, Constable, 1920.

B
üLOW
, B
ERNHARD
, P
RINCE VON
, Memoirs, 4 vols., tr. Boston, Little, Brown, 1931–32.

B
üLOW
, G
ENERAL
K
ARL VON
,
Mon Rapport sur la Bataille de la Marne,
tr. J. Netter, Paris, Payot, 1920.

C
LAUSEWITZ
, G
ENERAL
C
ARL VON
,
On War,
tr. Col. J. J. Graham, 3 vols., London, Kegan Paul, 1911.

C
ONRAD VON
H
öTZENDORFF
, F
ELDMARSCHALL
F
RANZ
,
Aus Meiner Dienstzeit, 1906–18,
5 vols., Vienna, 1921–25.

E
CKHARDSTEIN
, B
ARON
H. V
ON
,
Ten Years at the Court of St. James, 1895–1905,
tr., London, Butterworth, 1921.

E
RZBERGER
, M
ATTHIAS
,
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tr., Paris, Payot, 1921.

F
OERSTER
, W
OLFGANG
,
Le Comte Schlieffen et la Grande Guerre Mondiale,
tr. Paris, Payot, 1929.

F
RANçOIS
, G
ENERAL
H
ERMANN VON
,
Marneschlacht und Tannenberg,
Berlin, Scherl, 1920.

F
REYTAG
-L
ORINGHOVEN
, F
REIHERR VON
,
Menschen und Dinge wie ich sie in meinem Leben sah,
Berlin, Mittler, 1923.

G
ERARD
, J
AMES
W.,
My Four Years in Germany,
New York, Doran, 1917.

G
RELLING
, R
ICHARD
,
J’Accuse,
tr., A. Grey, New York, Doran, 1915.

H
ALLAYS
, A
NDRÉ
,
L’Opinion allemande pendant la guerre, 1914–18,
Paris, Perrin, 1919.

H
ANSSEN
, H
ANS
P
ETER
(deputy of Schleswig-Holstein in the Reichstag),
Diary of a Dying Empire,
tr. O. O. Winter, Indiana University Press, 1955.

H
AUSEN
, G
ENERAL
F
REIHERR
M
AX VON
,
Souvenirs de campagne de la Marne en 1914,
tr., Paris, Payot, 1922.

H
AUSSMAN
, C
ONRAD
,
Journal d’un deputé au Reichstag,
tr., Paris, Payot, 1928.

H
INDENBURG
, F
IELD
M
ARSHAL
P
AUL VON
,
Out of My Life,
Vol. I, tr. New York, Harper’s, 1921.

H
OFFMANN
, G
ENERAL
M
AX
,
The War of Lost Opportunities,
tr., New York, International, 1925.

———,
The Truth About Tannenberg,
included in Vol. II of his
War Diaries and Other Papers,
tr., Eric Sutton; Intro. by K. F. Nowak, London, Secker, 1929.

K
LUCK
, G
ENERAL
A
LEXANDER VON
,
The March on Paris and Battle of the Marne, 1914,
tr., New York, Longmans, 1920.

K
OPP
, G
EORG
(a member of the crew of the
Goeben
),
Das Teufelschiff und seine kleine Schwester,
tr. as
Two Lone Ships, Goeben and Breslau,
by Arthur Chambers, London, Hutchinson, 1931.

K
RAFFT VON
D
ELLMENSINGEN
, G
ENERAL
(Chief of Staff of Rupprecht’s Army),
Die Führung des Kronprinzen Rupprecht von Bayern auf dem linken Deutschen Heeresflügel bis zur Schlact im Lothringen im August, 1914,
Wissen und Wehr, Sonderheft, Berlin, Mittler, 1925.

K
UHL
, G
ENERAL
H
ERMANN VON
(Chief of Staff of Kluck’s Army),
Le grand état-major allemand avant et pendant la guerre mondiale,
tr. & ed. by General Douchy, Paris, Payot, 1922.

K
URENBERG
, J
OACHIM VON
,
The Kaiser,
tr. Russell and Hagen, New York, Simon & Schuster, 1955.

L
ICHNOWSKY
, P
RINCE
K
ARL
,
Memorandum
(published in English under the title
The Guilt of Germany
) with Introduction by Viscount Bryce, New York, Putnam’s, 1918.

L
UDENDORFF
, G
ENERAL
E
RICH
,
Ludendorff’s Own Story, August 1914–November 1918,
Vol. I, tr., New York, Harper’s, 1919.

L
UDWIG
, E
MIL
,
Wilhelm Hohenzollern,
New York, Putnam’s, 1926.

M
OLTKE
, G
ENERALOBERST
H
ELMUTH VON
,
Erinnerungen-Briefe-Dokumente, 1877–1916,
Stuttgart, Der Kommendetag, 1922.

M
üHLON
, W
ILHELM
(a director of Krupp’s),
L’Europe devastée: notes prises dans les premiers mois de la guerre,
tr., Paris, Payot, 1918.

R
ITTER
, G
ERARD
,
The Schlieffen Plan, Critique of a Myth,
tr. (contains first published text of many of Schlieffen’s papers), London, Oswald Wolff, 1958.

R
UPPRECHT
, C
ROWN
P
RINCE OF
B
AVARIA
,
Mein Kriegstagebuch,
Vol. I, Munich, Deutscher National Verlag, 1929.

S
ANTAYANA
, G
EORGE
,
Egotism in German Philosophy,
2nd ed., New York, Scribner’s, 1940.

S
CHINDLER
, O
BERLEUTNANT
D.,
Eine 42 cm. Mörser-Batterie im Weltkrieg,
Breslau, Hoffmann, 1934. The author served as artillery officer with the 420s at Liège and afterward. His book is the only firsthand account of the operation of the siege guns.

S
CHLIEFFEN
, A
LFRED
, F
ELDMARSHALL
G
RAF VON
,
Cannae,
tr. Fort Leavenworth, Command and General Staff School Press, 1936.

S
CHOEN
, F
REIHERR
W
ILHELM VON
,
Memoirs of an Ambassador,
tr., New York, Brentano’s, 1923.

S
OUCHON
, A
DMIRAL
W
ILHELM
,
La Percée de SMS Goeben et Breslau de Messine aux Dardanelles in Les marins allemands au combat,
ed. Vice-Admiral Eberhard von Mantey, Reichs Marine-Archiv, tr. Capitain R. Jouan, Paris, Payot, 1930.

S
TÜRGKH
, G
ENERAL
G
RAF
J
OSEF
(Austrian representative at OHL),
Im Deutschen Grossen Hauptquartier,
Leipzig, List, 1921.

T
APPEN
, G
ENERAL
G
ERHARD
(Chief of Operations at OHL),
Jusqu’à la Marne en 1914 in Documents allemands sur la bataille de la Marne,
tr. and ed. by Lt.-Col. L. Koeltz of the French General Staff, Paris, Payot, 1930.

T
IRPITZ
, G
RAND
A
DMIRAL
A
LFRED VON
,
My Memoirs,
2 vols., tr., New York, Dodd, Mead, 1919.

T
OPHAM
, A
NNE
(Governess to the Kaiser’s daughter),
Memories of the Kaiser’s Court,
New York, Dodd, Mead, 1914. An invaluable view from the inside by an outsider.

W
ETTERLÉ
, A
BBÉ
E. (deputy in the Reichstag from Alsace-Lorraine),
Behind the Scenes in the Reichstag,
tr., New York, Doran, 1918.

W
ILE
, F
REDERIC
W
ILLIAM
,
Men Around the Kaiser,
Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1913.

———,
The Assault: Germany Before—and England After—the Outbreak,
Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1916.

W
ILHELM
, C
ROWN
P
RINCE OF
G
ERMANY
,
My War Experiences,
tr., London, Hurst, 1922.

———,
Memoirs,
tr., New York, Scribner’s, 1922.

W
ILHELM
II,
The Kaiser’s Memoirs,
New York, tr., Harper’s, 1922. Reticence having unhappily overtaken the author late in life, this meagre volume by a central figure of his time is thin and disappointing.

———,
Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar,
ed. Isaac Don Levine, New York, Doubleday Page, 1920. Generally known as the Willy-Nicky Letters.

W
OLFF
, T
HEODOR
(editor of the
Berliner Tageblatt
),
Eve of 1914,
tr. E. W. Dickes, New York, Knopf, 1936.

Z
EDLITZ
-T
RUTZSCHLER
, R
OBERT
, G
RAF VON
,
Twelve Years at the Imperial German Court,
tr., New York, Doran, 1924. A particularly revealing study of the Kaiser by his unhappy Court Chamberlain.