354 “It was terrible”: Ibid., 149.
354 “Words fail me”: Ibid., 147.
355 “The more we heard”: Young, 111.
355 “nearly broke my heart”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 111–12.
355 “The happenings of the last week”: Chalmers, 175.
355 “There never was a more disappointing day”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 110–12.
355 “He knows cruiser work”: Ibid., 111.
355 “intensely unhappy”: Marder, II, 144.
356 “The Commodore gives”: Ibid., 145.
356 “Should an officer commanding”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 117–18.
356 “To break off an action”: Ibid., 120.
356 “Beatty [is] very severe”: Ibid., 112.
356 “Goodenough was so close”: Hough, Great War, 128.
356 “The true guilt”: Ibid.
356 “He lost three battles”: Marder, II, 140.
356 “They were all actually in our grasp”: Ibid., 143.
357 “a fool”: Goldrick, 213.
357 “I suppose you must”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 185.
357 “Lord Fisher said”: Hough, Great War, 128–29.
358 “There never was such bad luck”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 108.
358 “Dissatisfaction was widespread”: Churchill, I, 477–78.
359 “a regular bombardment”: The Times, Dec. 18, 1914, 9.
359 “the life of a single German soldier”: Ibid., Dec. 21, 1914, 8.
359 “the bombardment possibly heralds”: Ibid., Dec. 18, 1914, 10.
359 “It is extremely probable”: Scheer, 72.
359 “because he was afraid”: Marder, II, 147.
359 “entirely as a war measure”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 141.
359 “The advance of the main fleet”: Groos, III, 72–73.
359 “The restrictions enforced”: Scheer, 72.
359 “The effort to preserve the fleet”: Groos, III, 110.
CHAPTER 20: THE CUXHAVEN RAID: “STUPID GREAT THINGS, BUT VERY BEAUTIFUL”
362 “As a naval officer”: Tirpitz, I, 181.
362 “would be of no particular value”: Marder, I, 336.
362 “I rated the zeppelin much lower”: Churchill, I, 313.
363 “Aviation supersedes”: Randolph Churchill, Winston S. Churchill, II, 672.
363 “for the protection”: Churchill, I, 312.
363 “or seaplanes as I christened them”: Ibid.
363 “I had fifty efficient”: Ibid.
363 “airships on nocturnal missions”: Layman, 15.
364 “our dockyards”: Marder, I, 339.
364 “airplanes were the only means”: Churchill, I, 314.
364 “by bombing from airplanes”: Ibid., 314–15.
364 “the largest possible force”: Ibid., 315.
365 “[I] arrived at 5 p.m.”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 81.
366 “I got considerable butter”: Ibid., 83.
366 “the enemy had a force present”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 165.
366 “to deliver to the German mainland”: Layman, 61.
366 “stewards who had been landed”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 95.
367 The twin-hangar structure: The information about German navy zeppelins is from Layman, 74.
368 “a thick ground fog”: Ibid., 86.
370 “My method of defense”: Goldrick, 223.
370 “given ordinary sea room”: Ibid., 121.
370 “Zeppelins are not”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 98.
370 “I wish all ships a Merry Christmas”: Ibid.
371 “ship-wrecked mariners”: Layman, 112.
372 “not by their exertions”: Ibid., 120.
372 “They are awfully pleased”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 98.
373 “information from a trustworthy source”: Churchill, II, 62–63.
373 a letter to Churchill: Fisher, FGDN, III, 124.
373 “My dear Fisher”: Churchill, II, 64.
374 “clawed down in flames”: Ibid, I, 313.
CHAPTER 21: THE BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK: “KINGDOM COME OR TEN DAYS’ LEAVE”
376 “No offensive is to be carried”: Churchill, II, 61.
376 “If the weather tomorrow”: Groos, III, 191–92.
377 “Scouting Forces are to reconnoiter”: Ibid., 192–93.
378 “He looked at me intently”: Ibid., 129.
378 “Wilson wanted a rendezvous”: James, A Great Seaman, 145–46.
379 “Four German battle cruisers”: Churchill, II, 130.
379 “Through the long hours”: Ibid., 131.
379 “the morning being”: Young, 172.
380 “I had the first watch”: Ibid., 175–76.
382 “The same efficiency”: Beatty Papers, I, 249.
382 “The eastern horizon”: Young, 177.
383 “The day was so clear”: Goodenough, 92.
383 “Am in action”: Young, 178.
384 “I was anxious at all costs”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 151.
384 “at least eight large ships”: Ibid.
385 “The pace at which the enemy”: Ibid, 152.
385 “Enemy sighted are four battle cruisers”: Young, 178.
385 “As day broke”: Chatfield, 131.
385 “On the horizon ahead”: Hough, Great War, 132.
386 “Get us within range”: Chatfield, 132.
386 A midshipman on Indomitable: Schofield, 68.
387 Beatty’s signals: Young, 179–82.
387 “Well done, Indomitable”: Ibid., 183.
387 “We were all in high spirits”: Ibid., 184.
388 “Lion being our leading ship”: Ibid., 218–19.
388 “How soon should we open fire”: Chatfield, 132.
388 “We could see”: Young, 183.
388 “Open fire”: Ibid.
388 “to universal astonishment”: Churchill, II, 136.
389 “The enemy appeared”: Young, 182.
389 “a glare amid the smoke”: Ibid., 183.
389 “Destroyers take station”: Ibid., 184.
390 “Up to now”: Ibid.
391 “to the conning tower”: Chatfield, 133.
391 “It was impossible to endure the wind”: Ibid., 185.
391 “The Admiral and his staff”: Ibid., 190–91.
392 “Engage the corresponding ship”: Marder, II, 159.
392 “the unmolested Moltke”: Ibid., 160.
393 “Salvos of three”: Goldrick, 263.
393 “At nine a.m. . . . our battle cruisers”: Scheer, 80.
393 “the view . . . from the fire control”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 152.
393 “The action signals”: Ibid.
393 “The chances of support”: Ibid.
393 “a great glowing mass of fire”: Young, 187.
394 “A shell struck Seydlitz”: Chatfield, 134.
394 “Need assistance badly”: Groos, III, 285.
394 “Main fleet and flotillas”: Ibid.
395 “It was wonderful to see”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 161.
395 “cleaving the water”: Schofield, 67.
395 “My range finder was useless”: Goldrick, 264.
395 “Many . . . details registered”: Young, 216–17.
396 “very nearly smothered”: Ibid., 205.
396 “so violent”: Ibid., 189.
396 “we must have been struck”: Chatfield, 134.
397 “Close the enemy as rapidly”: Goldrick, 271.
397 “We thought our last moment”: Young, 192.
397 “Attack the enemy”: Ibid., 193.
398 “At 10.54 a.m., submarines were reported”: Beatty Papers, I, 217.
398 “Lion hoisted the signal”: Pelly, 148–50.
399 “Good heavens, Sir”: Goldrick, 273.
399 “Had he turned and steered”: Bacon, Modern Naval Strategy, 71.
399 “The best course”: Marder, II, 161.
400 “the whole spirit and direction”: Churchill, II, 138.
400 “i
t was impossible to endure”: Young, 185.
401 “What we need now”: Goldrick, 275.
403 “Only when he realized”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 159.
403 “I dismissed”: Ibid., 153.
403 “If Hipper’s leadership”: Ibid., 159.
404 “in stern turret D”: Ibid., 157.
CHAPTER 22: THE BATTLE OF THE DOGGER BANK: “ WHY DIDN’T YOU GET THE LOT ? ”
406 “a kind of obsession”: Young, 196.
406 “Blücher was under fire”: Goldrick, 277, and Young, 208–9.
406 “stayed for about twenty seconds”: Schofield, 67.
406 “was in a pitiable condition”: Patterson, Tyrwhitt, 107.
406 “It was a pathetic sight”: Schofield, 67.
407 “As an example”: Corbett, II, 98.
407 “As we turned”: Young, 207.
407 “a tremendous picture”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 163.
408 “Reports High Seas Fleet coming out”: Young, 198.
408 “Some one said, ‘Moore is reporting”: Churchill, II, 132.
408 “There can be few”: Ibid.
409 “the horrid news”: Chatfield, 134.
409 “an extraordinary spectacle”: Young, 201.
409 “around him, cheering”: Ibid.
409 “The Lion was one huge grandstand”: Ralph Seymour, 67.
409 “with the admiral’s flag”: Young, 201.
411 “an escort of thirteen”: Goldrick, 283.
411 “Germans are preparing”: Ibid.
411 “It was a strange journey”: Young, 204.
412 “Keep a good lookout”: Ibid.
412 “The silence of the ship”: Ibid., 204–5.
412 “There was a thick fog”: Ibid., 219.
413 “It was a bad decision”: Chatfield, 136.
413 “incredibly small and mean”: Young, 232.
413 “I most heartily congratulate”: Young, 211.
413 “It will be some time”: Marder, II, 166.
414 “After yesterday’s action”: Ibid., 167.
414 “For the second time”: Churchill, II, 140.
414 “The disappointment”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 163.
414 “I think the spectacle”: Marder, II, 167.
414 “I am against all charges”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 144.
414 “despicable” and “No signals”: Marder, II, 168.
415 “if, as has since been stated”: Ibid.
415 “wanted to have”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 144.
415 “poltroon” to “Any fool can obey orders”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 150–51.
415 “Pelly did very badly”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 144–45.
415 “had done very well”: Ibid., 145.
415 “Special emphasis is laid”: Marder, II, 169.
415 “The future and the present”: Ibid., 171.
416 “in a split second”: Chalmers, 196.
416 “urgently inquiring”: Young, 224.
416 “I was taken”: Ibid., 225.
416 “We know from themselves”: Chalmers, 197.
416 “I’ve quite made up”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 150.
416 “an indecisive fight”: Marder, II, 167.
416 “Well do I remember”: Churchill, II, 89.
417 “My impression”: Young, 205.
417 “we had no director firing”: Ibid., 206.
417 “Every one of them”: Ibid., 222.
418 “would immediately have been fastened upon”: Ibid.
418 “The result of the engagement”: Churchill, II, 143.
418 “suspicion that the gunnery”: Jellicoe, Grand Fleet, 181.
418 “We went out to sea”: Young, 233.
419 “in a marked degree”: Beatty Papers, I, 250.
420 “Jellicoe’s Battle Squadrons”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 156.
420 “The fundamental fact”: Ibid., 200.
420 “I imagine the Germans”: Jellicoe Papers, I, 152.
421 “The dominant feeling”: Marder, II, 165.
421 “Our own fire”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 154.
421 “There seems no obvious”: Scheer, 84.
422 “Hits on Tiger aft”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 156.
422 “I cannot confirm”: Ibid., 153.
422 “The tactical dispositions”: Ibid., 163.
422 “Seeing so many”: Scheer, 86.
422 “With the Dogger Bank”: Waldeyer-Hartz, 157.
422 “in English waters”: Ibid.
422 “All ships other”: Ibid., 154.
423 “The consumption of ammunition”: Ibid., 156.
423 “The working chamber”: Bennett, Naval Battles, 164.
424 “The unexpected presence”: Scheer, 86.
424 “It must be considered”: Bennett, NavalBattles, 165.
424 “Not apparent”: Ibid.
424 “The blame”: Groos, III, 243.
424 “short and square built”: Marder, II, 166.
425 “Apart from submarine warfare”: Churchill, II, 146–47.
425 “the second navy”: Marder, II, 175.
CHAPTER 23: “A DEMONSTRATION AT THE DARDANELLES”
428 “a chivalry which surely outstripped”: Marder, II, 231.
428 “It now appears”: Gilbert, I, 289–90.
428 “Who expected Carden”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 166.
428 “[Your] sole duty”: Churchill, I, 491.
429 “it is a good thing”: Gilbert, I, 299.
430 “You smug-faced crowds”: Siegfried Sassoon, “Suicide in the Trenches,” from Counter-attack and Other Poems (1918).
431 “Are there not other alternatives”: Churchill, II, 44.
432 “I do not see”: Ibid., 94.
432 “I CONSIDER”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 117.
433 “His Majesty’s less valuable ships”: James, Gallipoli, 26.
434 “Do you consider”: Churchill, II, 97–98.
434 “I do not consider”: Ibid.
434 “he seemed at this time”: Ibid., 100.
434 “Your view is agreed with”: Ibid., 99.
434 “until the impossibility”: Gilbert, I, 333.
434 “the Dardanelles appeared”: Ibid.
435 “Time required for operations”: Churchill, II, 102.
435 “the plan produced a great impression”: Ibid.
435 “firing all her ammunition”: Marder, II, 206.
435 “any sailor who attacked a fort”: Fisher, Memories, 81.
435 “A ship can no more stand up”: Marder, II, 215.
437 “The War Council had been sitting”: Hankey, I, 265–66.
437 “with all the inexorable force”: Lloyd George, I, 338–39.
438 “we could leave off”: Churchill, II, 110–11.
438 “That the Admiralty should prepare”: Ibid., 111.
438 “The Cabinet have decided”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 133.
438 “I just abominate”: Ibid., 142.
438 “is a projectile to be fired”: Fisher, FGDN, I, 291.
439 “I had not the same weight”: Magnus, 286.
439 “All powerful”: Churchill, II, 172–73.
439 “I made it a rule”: James, Gallipoli, 32.
440 First Lord, I have no desire”: Churchill, II, 154.
440 “We play into Germany’s hands”: Ibid., 155–56.
440 “Being already in possession”: Ibid., 157.
441 “Not to use them”: Ibid., 161–62.
442 “I entreat you”: Gilbert, I, 364.
438 “I am not in accord”: Fisher, FGDN, III, 147–48.
442 “undoubtedly involves risks”: Magnus, 319.
442 “he had understood”: Fisher, Memories, 71, 90, and Churchill, II, 164.
442 “in view of the Steps”: Churchill, II, 163.
442 “if satisfactory progress”: Hankey, I, 272.
442 “it was difficult” and “the Turks”: Ibid.
442 “an obstinate”: Asquith, Letters to Venetia, 405.
442 “long an
d very friendly”: Churchill, II, 165.
442 “I am in no way concealing”: Ibid.
442 “He always out-argues me”: James, Gallipoli, 37.
442 “I am sure I am right”: Ibid.
443 “When I finally decided”: Churchill, II, 165.
443 “This I took as the point”: Ibid.
443 “When the operation”: James, Gallipoli, 37.
443 “The more I consider”: Churchill, II, 301.
443 “A failure or check”: Ibid., 303.
443 “You are just simply eaten up”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 24: THE MINEFIELDS
447 “I do not intend”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 195.
448 “the number of persons”: Churchill, II, 194.
448 “Our affairs in the Dardanelles”: Marder, II, 240.
448 “the capsizing of one little state”: James, Gallipoli, 50.
450 “We could not go on”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 207.
452 “recognised sweeping risks”: Ibid., 211.
452 “When we got into the Straits”: Ibid.
453 “The less said about that night”: Ibid., 212.
453 “Your original instructions”: Ibid., 213.
453 “fully concurred”: Ibid.
453 “a minute later”: Ibid.
454 “I do not understand”: Ibid., 216.
454 “We have given the Carden plan”: Churchill, II, 216.
455 “One gesture with a wand”: Ibid., 215.
455 “was never more resolute”: Ibid., 216.
455 “who had a sort of feeling”: James, Gallipoli, 50.
456 “Everyone’s blood was up”: Churchill, II, 217.
455 “Everything was eagerness”: Morgenthau, 222.
455 “My poor admiral”: Keyes Papers, I, 107.
456 “I do not understand”: Keyes, Memoirs, 216–17.
456 “a complete break down”: Keyes Papers, I, 109.
456 “a real fine fellow”: Marder, II, 245.
456 “One could not feel”: Churchill, II, 220.
456 “Personal and Secret”: Ibid., 221.
CHAPTER 25: THE NAVAL ATTACK ON THE NARROWS
457 “a naval attack”: Moorehead, 62.
457 “no human power”: Chatterton, Dardanelles Dilemma, 132.
460 “pulped”: Verner, 65.
460 “Thank you, old chap”: Ibid., 69.
460 “Fore-control out of action”: Ibid., 60.
460 “For God’s sake, put out the fire”: Ibid.
461 “down her side and across her bottom”: Chatterton, Dardanelles Dilemma, 140.
461 “Sauvez-vous”: Usborne, 115.
461 “I did not think”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 237.
462 “Tell my people”: Verner, 63.
462 “The admiral directs you”: Keyes, Memoirs, I, 240.