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“This is their country!”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, n.d., PRONI.

“Yes!…The Squareheads have”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, April 4, 1914, PRONI.

“There is not the”: Leader,
August 15, 1914.

“Neither I nor anyone”:
Bror von Blixen-Finecke,
African Hunter,
New York, 1986, 274.

“ready cover to conceal”:
Angus Buchanan,
Three Years of War in East Africa,
1919, 139.

“a strong impression of ”:
Judith Thurman,
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen,
1982, 142 (page number refers to Penguin edition, 1984).

“not human beings”: Letters,
77.

“made no secret of ”: KC,
191.

“sodjering”:
DFH to KR, November 2, 1918, LoC.

“I can remember thinking”:
Carlos Baker,
Ernest Hemingway,
New York, 1969, 57.

“Once they began to”: KC,
198.

“On guard on a”: Leader,
October 9, 1915.

“Every known type of ”:
Ibid., August 21, 1915.

“In all this campaign”:
Francis Brett Young,
Marching on Tanga,
1917, 17.

“It has not always”:
DFH to “Pussy” Lucas, September 12, 1915, private collection.

“resplendently coloured stories”:
E.A.T. Dutton,
Lillibullero, or, The Golden Road,
Zanzibar, 1944, 126.

“Lettow-Vorbeck’s brilliant campaign”:
John Iliffe,
A Modern History of Tanganyika,
Cambridge, 1979, 241.

“The success at Tanga”:
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck,
My Reminiscences of East Africa,
1920, 51.

“This reverse will increase”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, October 3 [1914], PRONI.

“Now the scene should”: Leader,
June 26, 1915.

“the best example I”:
Richard Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary 1899–1926,
Edinburgh and London, 1960, 86.

“On the whole”:
Richard Meinertzhagen,
Kenya Diary 1902–1906,
Edinburgh and London, 1957, 239.

“This was my first”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
93.

“it was touch and”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, March 29, n.y., PRONI.

“We spent long hours”: KC,
198.

“Steadily the roars approached”:
Ibid., 200.

“Presumably there was some”:
Ibid., 201.

“The damaged, dusty gory”:
Wynn E. Wynn,
Ambush,
1937, 30.

“We have lost the”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
147.

“Jollie is a decrepit”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
172.

“If the initial attempt”:
DFH to “Pussy” Lucas, September 12, 1915, private collection.

“before the Germans have”:
Ibid.

“Jesus, make it stop”:
Siegfried Sassoon, “Attack,” from
The Old Huntsman and Other Poems,
1918.

“Darling, if I could”:
Mosley,
Julian Grenfell,
251.

“I saw a man”:
Ronald Knox,
Patrick Shaw Stewart,
1920, 159.

“I doubt whether any”:
Christen Christensen, ed.,
Blockade and Jungle,
Nashville, n.d., 104.

“full of their own…left behind in India”:
J. R. Gregory,
Under the Sun: A Memoir of Dr R.W. Burkitt,
Nairobi, n.d., 27.

“One hopes that the”:
DFH to “Pussy” Lucas, September 12, 1915, private collection.

“as frustrating as teaching”:
Elwin,
The Life of Llewelyn Powys,
126.

“The Pox is so”:
Ibid., 131.

“and plug at anything”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, October 3 [1914], PRONI.

“It is both the”:
Charles Miller,
Battle for the Bundu,
1974, 197.

“and man the launches”:
Ibid., 204.

“His Majesty’s congratulations to”:
Ibid., 206.

NELSON TOUCH ON AFRICAN:
Ibid., 211.

“they all seem quite”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
163.

“When we arrived at”: Leader,
August 5, 1916.

“It is hot, and”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
176.

“a hopeless, rotten soldier”:
Ibid., 171.

“If General Smuts considers”:
General Sir J. M. Stewart, WO 95/5335, PRO.

“I still have those”:
General Sir J. M. Stewart to DFH, August 20, 1916, Stewart Papers, National Army Museum, London.

“perhaps the most gifted”: KC,
220.

“Never in my experience…Such was his charm”:
Ibid., 191.

“Their boats ran aground”:
Leonard Mosley,
Duel for Kilimanjaro,
1963, 137.

“I had a farm”: OoA,
15.

“Never did
floreat etona
”: KC,
223.

“When we had read”:
Young,
Marching on Tanga,
87.

“Suddenly, the news came”:
Alfred Johansen, “The Kenya I Knew,” unpublished memoir, RH.

“one of the few”:
Hordern and Stacke,
Military Operations in East Africa,
306.

“One can only think”: Leader,
August 12, 1916.

“Mere superiority in numbers”:
Hordern and Stacke,
Military Operations in East Africa,
516.

“Many men are almost”:
General Sheppard, WO 95/5335, PRO.

“On every piece of ”: KC,
231.

“a campaign against nature”:
J.H.V. Crowe,
General Smuts’ Campaign in East Africa,
1918, viii.

“Picture the difficulty of ”:
Buchanan,
Three Years of War in East Africa,
138.

“Colonel furious, I furious”:
H. Moyse-Bartlett,
The King’s African Rifles,
Aldershot, 1956, 315.

“Rations were so green”:
Miller,
Battle for the Bundu,
238.

“rats’ alley/Where the”:
T. S. Eliot,
The Waste Land,
New York, 1922.

“I feel with one”:
General R. Hoskins, WO 95/5335, PRO.

“the mutual personal esteem”:
Lettow-Vorbeck,
My Reminiscences of East Africa,
170.

“An order issued in”:
Ibid., 194.

“The German army was so”:
Christensen, ed.,
Blockade and Jungle,
203.

“The enemy is evidently”:
General R. Hoskins, WO 339/120999, PRO.

“He had done awfully”:
GC to Adrian and Christine Cave, April 8, 1917, PRONI.

“He had managed to”:
C. P. Fendall,
The East African Force 1915–1919,
1921, 100.

“In view of the”:
War Office to General R. Hoskins, WO 339/120999, PRO.

“lost grip of the”:
Ross Anderson,
The Forgotten Front,
Stroud, 2004, 210.

“All the military folk”:
GC to Lady Eleanor Cole, n.d., RH.

“If they had left”:
DFH to KR, November 2, 1918, LoC.

“We are all depressed”:
GC to Lady Eleanor Cole, n.d., RH.

CHAPTER 5. BABYLON, MESPOT—IRAQ

“When I think of ”: KC,
195.

“world grown old and”:
Rupert Brooke, “Peace,”
New Numbers
4 (1915).

“stacked like straw”:
Blunt,
Lady Muriel,
111.

“As one who has”: The Times,
November 12, 1914.

“Will you convey to”:
DFH to “Pussy” Lucas, August 8, 1917, private collection.

“murder, not only to”:
Edmund Blunden,
Undertones of War,
1928.

“Christmas feed in this”:
Ann Crichton-Harris,
Seventeen Letters to Tatham,
Toronto, 2002, 49.

“Very few outsiders care”:
Sylvia Jukes Morris,
Edith Kermit Roosevelt,
New York, 1980, 298.

“the one with the”:
Ibid., 399.

“Finch Hatton and I”:
Kermit Roosevelt,
War in the Garden of Eden,
New York, 1919, 8.

MADE IN THE USA:
Ibid., 18.

“the Mesopotamian picnic”:
Ibid., 223.

“Hostile…Very”:
A. J. Barker,
The Neglected War,
1967, 234.

“I slipped behind my”:
Roosevelt,
War in the Garden of Eden,
16.

“The trenches were a”:
Ibid., 20.

“Is this the land”:
Barker,
The Neglected War,
63.

“Dear K”:
DFH to KR, December 1917, LoC.

“frantic wiring to all”:
DFH to KR, n.d., LoC.

“A very attractive person”:
Lady Eleanor Cole to her mother, May 19, 1918, RH.

“It was nice to”:
DFH to KR, n.d., LoC.

“an unusually charming person”: Letters,
66.

“It is seldom that”:
Ibid., 67.

“for I have been”:
Ibid., 89.

“quite a nice piece”:
DFH to KR, n.d., LoC.

“I heard elephant all”:
Ibid.

“About eight in a”:
Ibid.

“I may have to”:
Ibid.

“had rather fun meeting”:
DFH to KR, July 17, 1918, LoC.

“He was in good”:
Ibid.

“So far it is”:
DFH to KR, n.d., LoC.

“They work us morn”:
DFH to KR, July 17, 1918, LoC.

“We keep going by…winter there these days…don’t get killed”:
Ibid.

“after chopping and burning”:
DFH to KR, November 2, 1918, LoC.

“It begins to look”:
Ibid.

“in wonderful form”:
Ibid.

“I am very glad”:
Ibid.

“The Boche in defeat”:
Ibid.

“If my toe had”:
Ibid.

“Von Lettow has now”:
Ibid.

“very satisfactory lately”:
Ibid.

“What in the name”:
Ibid.

“again shown itself in”:
Ibid.

“As things are pretty”:
Ibid.

“The Nile played up”:
DFH to KR, January 27, 1919, LoC.

“comfortable climate”:
Ibid.

“a real Swahili ruffian”:
Ibid.

“though in what capacity”:
Meinertzhagen,
Army Diary,
115.

“emits hot air by”:
Ibid., 116.

“Old Kitchener”:
DFH to KR, January 27, 1919, LoC.

“It was just as”:
Ibid.

“furious wiring, relays of ”:
Ibid.

“I am very sorry…You ought to…I feel that”:
DFH to KR, January 27, 1919, LoC.

“Young lady…in my”: KC,
183.

“All our troops, native”:
Lettow-Vorbeck,
My Reminiscences of East Africa,
318.

CHAPTER 6. MY WIFE’S LOVER

“As for charm, I”: WwtN,
192.

“The sun rose and”:
Powys,
Black Laughter,
172.

“They are at peace”:
Laurence Binyon, “For the Fallen,”
The Times,
September 21, 1914.

“Among the white community”: Leader,
November 11, 1918.

“When you sat down”:
Nellie Grant,
Nellie: Letters from Africa,
1980, 82.

“Lots of women were”:
Trzebinski,
The Lives of Beryl Markham,
68.

“One of the things”:
Frans Lasson, ed.,
Isak Dinesen: Her Life in Pictures
(originally published as
The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen,
New York, 1970), Rungsted Kyst, 1994, 153.

“strange beauty”:
Bunny Allen,
The Wheel of Life,
Long Beach, 2002, 34.

“full of magnetism and”:
Elspeth Huxley,
East African Annual 1958–59,
Nairobi, 60.

“all awry”:
Ibid.

“never significantly silent”: WwtN,
209.

“I would have been”:
Baker,
Ernest Hemingway,
803.

“Blickie is in hell”:
Carlos Baker, ed.,
Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961,
New York, 2003, 839.

“How desperately she longed”:
Lasson, ed.,
Isak Dinesen: Her Life in Pictures,
54.

“without any petty attention”:
Thomas Dinesen,
My Sister, Isak Dinesen,
1975, 53.

“Gold meant coffee”:
Blixen-Finecke,
African Hunter,
14.

“I was on my”:
Blixen,
Seven Gothic Tales,
244.

“a person who had”: OoA,
78.

“I find that nation”: Letters,
24.

“decent”:
Ibid., 10.

“like brothers”:
Ibid., 26.

“If I cannot be”:
Ibid., 381.

“The Danish character”:
Thurman,
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen,
70.

“ecstasy”:
Dinesen,
My Sister, Isak Dinesen,
55.

“My fingers itched to”:
Blixen-Finecke,
African Hunter,
3.

“So far…the tourist”:
Gustav Kleen, ed.,
Bror Blixen: The Africa Letters,
New York, 1988, 129.

“sleep on one’s shoulder”:
Ibid., 129.

“extraordinarily sure”: Letters,
47.

“If I should wish”:
Thurman,
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen,
162.

“If it did not”: Letters,
281.

“It was Africa distilled”: OoA,
15.

“I don’t think I”: Letters,
97.

“one of the old…a much better type”:
Ibid., 66.

“I think it is”:
Ibid.

“in the same restricted”:
Ibid., 67.

“my good friend, and”:
Thurman,
Isak Dinesen: The Life of Karen Blixen,
197.

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