Inferno, p.95
Inferno, page 95
“You joked about”: AI Owen.
“When a plane blew up”: Harry H. Crosby, A Wing and a Prayer (Robson, 1993), p. 95.
“supported as he was”: USMHI, Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
The Möhne was breached: John Sweetman, The Dambusters Raid (Arms & Armour, 1993), passim. This is the most authoritative account of the mission.
“We were told the British”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 72.
Adam Tooze has made: Tooze, p. 556 and passim.
Adam Tooze believes: ibid., p. 603.
“These raids on”: Bomber Command files.
“Hundreds of flak guns”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 391.
“Our Führer ought”: ibid., p. 382.
“often feeling that”: ibid., p. 453.
“These elements cannot”: Tooze, pp. 629–30.
“The white stripes moved”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 390.
“They were torn from”: ibid., p. 75.
“At the front of the room”: ibid., p. 427.
“a stupid, impudent”: ibid., pp. 404–5.
“For two whole hours”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 76, 24 Aug. 1943.
“That afternoon … I had”: Ursula Gebel, “November 1943 in Charlottenburg,” quoted in Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War (Bodley Head, 2010), p. 323.
“We stood in the fartherest”: Klaus Schmidt, Die Brandnacht (Darmstadt, 1964), p. 91.
“There was a crash”: ibid., p. 80.
“We were all petrified”: ibid., p. 83.
“All one could see were”: ibid., p. 80.
“What a homecoming”: Metelmann, p. 180.
“I heard today that”: Ostellino, p. 268, 9 Dec. 1942.
“in at the finish”: unpublished MS, Just a Gamble, Bomber Command files.
“The planes are over”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 468.
“Fear and panic rule”: ibid., p. 473.
“It is a reproach”: Spectator, 25 Feb. 1944.
“It all boils down to”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“I have no intention”: Cochrane Papers, Harris MS.
CHAPTER TWENTY VICTIMS
“Eva’s birthday”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 408.
“I was so far”: IWM 96/55/1 ZR Pomorski.
“Lice bugs bugs lice”: IWM Felicks Lachman MS 91/6/1.
“To put matters brutally”: British Library India Office Records L/PJ/8/412/319. For a vivid account of the entire Polish saga, see Matthew Kelly, Finding Poland (Cape, 2010).
“I had dressed”: IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS.
“I don’t believe”: Guest, p. 202.
“The former social order”: Chin Kee On, Malaya Upside Down (Singapore, 1946), p. 190.
“Ya Njonja”: Elizabeth van Kampen memoir, Dutch East Indies website.
“The … disgusting thing”: Moltke, p. 244.
“My dear father”: IWM 95/13/1 Slazak MS.
“I have been to Malaya”: Bayly and Harper, p. 223.
“Let us dance happily”: ibid., p. 179.
“The Japanese seemed”: ibid., p. 234.
“I’ve been to the American”: Maier, p. 328.
“But we thought”: AI Gabor, Armageddon files.
“In one area”: Moltke, p. 175.
“If you shut yourself”: Maier, 29 Oct. 1942.
In occupied western Europe: see Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire (Penguin, 2008), for an exceptionally lucid exposition of many issues in this chapter.
“a catastrophic destruction”: Tooze, p. 522.
“if the children aren’t”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 262.
“We are still much too”: ibid., p. 267.
Foreign workers and slaves: Tooze, p. 537.
“I saw these people”: Jones, Retreat, p. 23.
“must be done with”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, pp. 349–51.
“If we entirely dispense”: Peter Longerich, Holocaust (Oxford, 2010), p. 211.
As John Lukacs has observed: John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War (Yale, 2010).
“One simply could not”: Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men (Penguin, 1998), pp. 19–21.
Peter Longerich, one of the more: Longerich, p. 261 et seq.
“The leadership at the centre”: ibid., p. 426.
“In autumn 1941”: ibid., p. 271.
Hans Michaelis: Maria Sello, Ein Familien und Zeitdokument 1933–45 (unpublished MS), Wiener Library, quoted in Roger Moorhouse, p. 178.
“Sadly I have to say”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 362.
“Voichita Aurel”: Sebastian, p. 268, 28 Jan. 1940.
“In March 1942, Himmler”: Spectator, 11 Dec. 1942.
“At least nine-tenths”: Moltke, p. 285.
in Moscow at Easter: Brontman, p. 132.
“Hitler did a good job”: Merridale, p. 253.
“an indigestible lump”: Garrard, Bones, quoted in ibid., p. 253.
In 1945, when: cf. Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin.
“During the Soviet occupation”: Merridale, p. 108.
“Two of the most”: Koa Wing, p. 74, 26 March 1941.
Murray Mendelsohn: AI Mendelsohn, Armageddon files.
“fucking Jew”: Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 22.
As late as December: Public Opinion, p. 385.
“Familiar stuff”: Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), p. 99, BNA FO 921/7.
“In London these”: Karski, p. 393.
“Most of us were still”: Schlesinger, p. 307.
“It took some time”: Jeffrey, p. xiii.
“ ‘Atrocities’ had come”: George Orwell, Tribune, 31 March 1944.
As late as May 1945: Public Opinion, p. 501.
“After us there might”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 342.
On 13 July 1942: this account is taken from Browning, p. 2 and passim.
“In no case can I”: ibid., p. 128.
“ ‘Where are my’ ”: ibid., p. 83.
“If this tragedy was”: IWM 02/23/1 Frank Blaichman.
“Rita, you must”: Moorhouse, pp. 195–96.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE EUROPE BECOMES A BATTLEFIELD
“Hitler could think only”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Everything is melting”: Belov diary, 17 April 1943.
“the Soviet bacillus”: Merridale, p. 200.
“They slept with Germans”: Brontman, pp. 231–33, 9 Nov. 1943, and p. 262, 21 Feb. 1944.
“Uncle, have you”: ibid., p. 271, 21 April 1944.
Just praise has been: see David Glanz, Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War (Frank Cass, 1989).
“The course of the war”: Anders, p. 201, 16 April 1944.
“So back we go”: Raleigh Trevelyan, Rome ’44 (Viking, 1982), p. 142.
“Efficiency in general”: Atkinson, p. 490.
“This beachhead is”: ibid., p. 488.
“I never saw so many”: ibid., p. 416.
“The air roars”: ibid., p. 386.
“It has become”: ibid., p. 428.
“We could no longer see”: ibid., p. 463.
“My heart bleeds”: ibid., p. 534.
“evident that the project”: USMHI Forrest Pogue interview, The Supreme Command files.
“Personally I couldn’t”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“Who else is fighting”: Horatius Murray, “A Very Fine Commander,” ed. John Donovan (Pen & Sword, 2010), p. 164.
“3rd Royal Tanks were virtually”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“if he was hit bad”: McCallum, Overlord correspondence.
“I was the first tank”: Lewis, p. 117.
“You know, it sounds”: Jon Lewis, ed., Eyewitness D-Day (Robinson, 1994), p. 101.
“No one was moving”: ibid., p. 102.
“Eva was very excited”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 395.
“On the morning of 6 June”: Overlord files.
“It turns out that”: Poppel, p. 179.
“No landing or lodgement”: von Schweppenburg, in Spectator, 5 June 1964.
“We all reckon”: Poppel, p. 181.
“Looting by troops”: F.S.V. Donnison, Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe, 1944–46 (HMS0 1961), p. 74, report of 12 June 1944.
“It was an onslaught”: IWM 78/35/1 Madame A. de Vigneral.
“The attack entailed”: IWM Col. H. S. Gillies letter of June 1944.
“One of the scenes”: Lewis, p. 173.
“I have often wondered”: Richardson, Overlord correspondence.
“Here we encountered”: Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno (Spellmount, 1997), p. 75.
“The whole company”: ibid., p. 81.
“We had to dig them”: Lewis, p. 167.
“the urgent need for”: USMHI First U.S. Army report of operations, 20 Oct. 1943–1 Aug. 1944.
“We were essentially”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“A sheet of flame”: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson MS, Overlord files.
“There was, I think”: Charles Farrell, Reflections (Pentland, 2000), p. 20.
“We were all rather”: Cloudsley-Thompson MS.
“Christ!” he said: Patrick Hennessy, Young Man in a Tank (privately published, 1997), p. 79.
“There were a lot”: Kerr, Overlord correspondence.
“strolling, hands in pockets”: quoted in Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 36.
“knowing that with”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“The front tanks are”: Ken Tout, Tank! Forty Hours of Battle (London, 1985), p. 39.
“Driver left”: Andy Cropper, Dad’s War (Anmas, 1994), p. 33.
“It was a hell”: Lewis Keeble, Worm’s Eye View: The Recollections of Lewis Keeble, Appendix C to Battlefield Tour: 1/4 KOYLI in the NW Europe Campaign.
“We discussed”: Craig, p. 176.
“They kept saying”: Pogue, p. 333, 25 Jan. 1945.
“The spirit of human”: Craig, p. 31.
“On an average”: Robin Hastings, An Undergraduate’s War (Bell House, 1997), p. 104.
“I have drawn”: Rathbone, Overlord correspondence.
“We were often”: Selerie, Overlord correspondence.
“None of us were”: Lapp, Armageddon files.
“I told them”: Diercks, Armageddon files.
“Shit and shit”: Barry Broadfoot, ed., Six War Years (Toronto, 1974), p. 97.
“War is a merry thing!”: Overlord files.
“The first men to die”: AI Godau, Armageddon files.
“The Russian won’t”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I see worried faces”: Kurt Meyer, Grenadiers (Fedorowiz Publishing, 1994), p. 134.
“From 6:30 to 8 a.m.”: Zimmer, Overlord files.
“How did the poor”: Poppel, p. 221.
“My darling Irmi”: Overlord files.
“In Soviet thinking”: P. H. Vigor, Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory (Macmillan, 1984), p. 137.
“This was the last”: Merridale, p. 167.
“The enemy’s use”: Armageddon files.
“They all looked pitiful”: Merridale, p. 242.
“camels on their knees”: ibid., p. 259.
“One night you sleep”: Pisma S Voiny, p. 188.
“It was incomprehensible”: Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 40.
“There are a great many”: Moltke, pp. 282–83.
“No one ever laughs”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 104, 25 June 1944.
“For days we have”: ibid., p. 107.
“We thought it impossible”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Our nerves were shot”: Cropper, p. 38.
“The floor of the valley”: Eversley Belfield and Hubert Essame, The Battle for Normandy (London, 1975), p. 209.
“My driver was burning”: Lewis, p. 271.
“We were shell-shocked”: Michael Reynolds, Men of Steel (Spelmount, 1999), pp. 32–33
“the remainder of the war”: Spectator, 5 June 1964.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO JAPAN: DEFYING FATE
“Old friendships dissolve”: Australian Forces Weekly Intelligence Review, No. 118 NZ External Affairs file 84/6/1, Pt.1.
“India is not at present”: LHA Lethbridge papers, Lethbridge Report, p. 5.
“It is now our turn”: Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind, p. 555.
“The physical hammering”: Hart, p. 162.
“It was a stinking hell”: ibid., p. 158.
“There are few things”: Thompson, Burma, p. 219.
“We shot them on the tennis court”: ibid., p. 215.
“We were attacked”: ibid., p. 220.
“Your nerves got”: ibid., p. 190.
“When you get to”: ibid., p. 193.
“Come on you chaps”: Hart, p. 187.
“Well, Sam”: ibid., p. 173.
“Almost to a man”: Raymond Cooper, B Company (Dobson, 1978), p. 137.
“In the rain, with no”: ibid., p. 389.
“If you went out”: Wooldridge, p. 132.
“Enemy dead were”: Harry Gailey, Bougainville, 1943–45: The Forgotten Campaign (University of Kentucky, 1991), p. 155.
“Out here the war life”: Fussell, p. 109.
“It wasn’t dysentery”: Gailey, p. 124.
“Even under the best”: John Monks, A Ribbon and a Star (Henry Holt, 1945), p. 40.
“Large bogeys bearing”: Wooldridge, p. 163.
“The carrier below”: ibid., p. 177.
“We had hardly any”: Miller, p. 147.
“It reminded me of”: Carl Hoffman, Saipan: The Beginning of the End (U.S. Marine Corps, 1950), p. 223.
“Nowhere have I seen”: Time, 3 July 1944.
“They lost all account”: Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948), p. 249.
“He was pretty shaken”: Wooldridge, p. 209.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE GERMANY BESIEGED
“You and I are both”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I have buried all”: ibid.
“Then there’ll be nothing”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 86.
“I know why you want”: AI Moser, Armageddon files.
“Café Kaefer”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“To be nineteen”: Fussell, p. 10.
“a walkover”: Harris to Portal, 1 Nov. 1944, Cochrane Papers.
“Until we get Antwerp”: Marshall Papers, Box 67/13, 25 Sept. 1944.
“This is not only true”: Devers, Military Review, Vol. 27, No. 7, Oct. 1947, p. 6.
“We all thought the war”: Koa Wing, p. 236, 29 Sept. 1944.
“This … is a letter”: Day-Lewis, p. 19.
“the utter misery”: John Ellis, The Sharp End (Pimlico, 1993), p. 30.
“By the winter Americans”: Pogue, The Supreme Command files, MHI Carlisle.
In Montgomery’s 21st: Dr. John Petty, British Army Review (summer, 2010), p. 89.
“The English, and even more”: Armageddon files.
“Dear General,” Eisenhower wrote: Marshall Papers, Box 67/15.
“What a mess”: Ellis, p. 96.
“Words cannot describe”: A. K. Altes and N.K.C.A. In’t Veld, The Forgotten Battle: Overlook and the Maas Salient, 1944–45 (Spellmount, 1995), p. 160.
“The war was over”: Broadfoot, p. 231.
“I remember from”: Robert Kotlowitz, Before Their Times (Anchor, 1998), p. 137.
“We strung out across”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“That’s what I keep”: ibid.
Alan Brooke was heard: USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, Supreme Command files.
“With our tent”: George Neill, Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. 85, 91, 95–97.
“Through my vision slit”: Metelmann, p. 87.
“your butt hurt”: Schoo, Armageddon files.
“Jesus Christ!”: Kotlowitz, pp. 120–21.
“burst into tears”: AI Beavers, Armageddon files.
“If you are brave”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I wasn’t scared”: AI Moody, Armageddon files.
“Fear reigned”: Donald Burgett, Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne (Dell, 1999), p. 1.
“They looked peaceful”: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“It was so foggy”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 120.
“Gordon got ripped”: Fussell, p. 131.
in the small town: William Hitchock, Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–45 (Faber, 2008), pp. 87, 89.
“The shattered remnants”: George D. Graves, Blood and Snow: The Ardennes [n.p.].
“My sergeant and I”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 113.
“We finished the battle”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Americans are not brought up”: USMHI Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
“The record of accomplishment”: Blumenson, Parameters.
“I shot myself”: Henry Hills narrative, p. 257, Armageddon files.
The recommendation was: Bowlby, p. 109.
“We left along our path”: Anders, p. 251.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
“Lieutenant, sir”: Krisztian Ungvary, Battle for Budapest (Tauris, 2003), p. 20.
“The young soldier”: ibid., p. 28.
“promised that Budapest”: ibid., p. 41.
“This is the most beautiful”: ibid., p. 52.
“would not ruin”: ibid., p. 35.
“The Russkis”: ibid., p. 111.
Bizarrely, a group of: ibid., p. 64.
“It was a girl of about”: ibid., p. 141.
“Leaving the room”: ibid., p. 142.
“Supply situation intolerable”: ibid., p. 147.
“Haven’t you got a mother”: ibid., p. 239.
“In narrow Kazinczy”: ibid., p. 247.
“Pus, blood, gangrene”: ibid., p. 203.
“The Hitlerists continued”: ibid., p. 208.
“They were simple”: ibid., p. 293.
“a small, bird-like”: Donald T. Peak, Fire Mission (Sunflower University Press, 2001), p. 148.
“I’ve had enough”: Charles Felix, Crossing the Sauer (Burford Books, 2002), p. 153.
a soldier in Aaron Larkin’s: MS, Aaron’s War, Armageddon files.
Pfc. Harold Lindstrom: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“We were members”: History Branch Office of the JAG with the U.S. Forces European Theatre, 18 July 1942–l Nov. 1945, Vol. 1, pp. 242–49.
“When a plane blew up”: Harry H. Crosby, A Wing and a Prayer (Robson, 1993), p. 95.
“supported as he was”: USMHI, Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
The Möhne was breached: John Sweetman, The Dambusters Raid (Arms & Armour, 1993), passim. This is the most authoritative account of the mission.
“We were told the British”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 72.
Adam Tooze has made: Tooze, p. 556 and passim.
Adam Tooze believes: ibid., p. 603.
“These raids on”: Bomber Command files.
“Hundreds of flak guns”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 391.
“Our Führer ought”: ibid., p. 382.
“often feeling that”: ibid., p. 453.
“These elements cannot”: Tooze, pp. 629–30.
“The white stripes moved”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 390.
“They were torn from”: ibid., p. 75.
“At the front of the room”: ibid., p. 427.
“a stupid, impudent”: ibid., pp. 404–5.
“For two whole hours”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 76, 24 Aug. 1943.
“That afternoon … I had”: Ursula Gebel, “November 1943 in Charlottenburg,” quoted in Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War (Bodley Head, 2010), p. 323.
“We stood in the fartherest”: Klaus Schmidt, Die Brandnacht (Darmstadt, 1964), p. 91.
“There was a crash”: ibid., p. 80.
“We were all petrified”: ibid., p. 83.
“All one could see were”: ibid., p. 80.
“What a homecoming”: Metelmann, p. 180.
“I heard today that”: Ostellino, p. 268, 9 Dec. 1942.
“in at the finish”: unpublished MS, Just a Gamble, Bomber Command files.
“The planes are over”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 468.
“Fear and panic rule”: ibid., p. 473.
“It is a reproach”: Spectator, 25 Feb. 1944.
“It all boils down to”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“I have no intention”: Cochrane Papers, Harris MS.
CHAPTER TWENTY VICTIMS
“Eva’s birthday”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 408.
“I was so far”: IWM 96/55/1 ZR Pomorski.
“Lice bugs bugs lice”: IWM Felicks Lachman MS 91/6/1.
“To put matters brutally”: British Library India Office Records L/PJ/8/412/319. For a vivid account of the entire Polish saga, see Matthew Kelly, Finding Poland (Cape, 2010).
“I had dressed”: IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS.
“I don’t believe”: Guest, p. 202.
“The former social order”: Chin Kee On, Malaya Upside Down (Singapore, 1946), p. 190.
“Ya Njonja”: Elizabeth van Kampen memoir, Dutch East Indies website.
“The … disgusting thing”: Moltke, p. 244.
“My dear father”: IWM 95/13/1 Slazak MS.
“I have been to Malaya”: Bayly and Harper, p. 223.
“Let us dance happily”: ibid., p. 179.
“The Japanese seemed”: ibid., p. 234.
“I’ve been to the American”: Maier, p. 328.
“But we thought”: AI Gabor, Armageddon files.
“In one area”: Moltke, p. 175.
“If you shut yourself”: Maier, 29 Oct. 1942.
In occupied western Europe: see Mark Mazower, Hitler’s Empire (Penguin, 2008), for an exceptionally lucid exposition of many issues in this chapter.
“a catastrophic destruction”: Tooze, p. 522.
“if the children aren’t”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 262.
“We are still much too”: ibid., p. 267.
Foreign workers and slaves: Tooze, p. 537.
“I saw these people”: Jones, Retreat, p. 23.
“must be done with”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, pp. 349–51.
“If we entirely dispense”: Peter Longerich, Holocaust (Oxford, 2010), p. 211.
As John Lukacs has observed: John Lukacs, The Legacy of the Second World War (Yale, 2010).
“One simply could not”: Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men (Penguin, 1998), pp. 19–21.
Peter Longerich, one of the more: Longerich, p. 261 et seq.
“The leadership at the centre”: ibid., p. 426.
“In autumn 1941”: ibid., p. 271.
Hans Michaelis: Maria Sello, Ein Familien und Zeitdokument 1933–45 (unpublished MS), Wiener Library, quoted in Roger Moorhouse, p. 178.
“Sadly I have to say”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 362.
“Voichita Aurel”: Sebastian, p. 268, 28 Jan. 1940.
“In March 1942, Himmler”: Spectator, 11 Dec. 1942.
“At least nine-tenths”: Moltke, p. 285.
in Moscow at Easter: Brontman, p. 132.
“Hitler did a good job”: Merridale, p. 253.
“an indigestible lump”: Garrard, Bones, quoted in ibid., p. 253.
In 1945, when: cf. Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin.
“During the Soviet occupation”: Merridale, p. 108.
“Two of the most”: Koa Wing, p. 74, 26 March 1941.
Murray Mendelsohn: AI Mendelsohn, Armageddon files.
“fucking Jew”: Stephen Ambrose, Band of Brothers (Simon & Schuster, 1992), p. 22.
As late as December: Public Opinion, p. 385.
“Familiar stuff”: Martin Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981), p. 99, BNA FO 921/7.
“In London these”: Karski, p. 393.
“Most of us were still”: Schlesinger, p. 307.
“It took some time”: Jeffrey, p. xiii.
“ ‘Atrocities’ had come”: George Orwell, Tribune, 31 March 1944.
As late as May 1945: Public Opinion, p. 501.
“After us there might”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 342.
On 13 July 1942: this account is taken from Browning, p. 2 and passim.
“In no case can I”: ibid., p. 128.
“ ‘Where are my’ ”: ibid., p. 83.
“If this tragedy was”: IWM 02/23/1 Frank Blaichman.
“Rita, you must”: Moorhouse, pp. 195–96.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE EUROPE BECOMES A BATTLEFIELD
“Hitler could think only”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Everything is melting”: Belov diary, 17 April 1943.
“the Soviet bacillus”: Merridale, p. 200.
“They slept with Germans”: Brontman, pp. 231–33, 9 Nov. 1943, and p. 262, 21 Feb. 1944.
“Uncle, have you”: ibid., p. 271, 21 April 1944.
Just praise has been: see David Glanz, Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War (Frank Cass, 1989).
“The course of the war”: Anders, p. 201, 16 April 1944.
“So back we go”: Raleigh Trevelyan, Rome ’44 (Viking, 1982), p. 142.
“Efficiency in general”: Atkinson, p. 490.
“This beachhead is”: ibid., p. 488.
“I never saw so many”: ibid., p. 416.
“The air roars”: ibid., p. 386.
“It has become”: ibid., p. 428.
“We could no longer see”: ibid., p. 463.
“My heart bleeds”: ibid., p. 534.
“evident that the project”: USMHI Forrest Pogue interview, The Supreme Command files.
“Personally I couldn’t”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“Who else is fighting”: Horatius Murray, “A Very Fine Commander,” ed. John Donovan (Pen & Sword, 2010), p. 164.
“3rd Royal Tanks were virtually”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“if he was hit bad”: McCallum, Overlord correspondence.
“I was the first tank”: Lewis, p. 117.
“You know, it sounds”: Jon Lewis, ed., Eyewitness D-Day (Robinson, 1994), p. 101.
“No one was moving”: ibid., p. 102.
“Eva was very excited”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 395.
“On the morning of 6 June”: Overlord files.
“It turns out that”: Poppel, p. 179.
“No landing or lodgement”: von Schweppenburg, in Spectator, 5 June 1964.
“We all reckon”: Poppel, p. 181.
“Looting by troops”: F.S.V. Donnison, Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe, 1944–46 (HMS0 1961), p. 74, report of 12 June 1944.
“It was an onslaught”: IWM 78/35/1 Madame A. de Vigneral.
“The attack entailed”: IWM Col. H. S. Gillies letter of June 1944.
“One of the scenes”: Lewis, p. 173.
“I have often wondered”: Richardson, Overlord correspondence.
“Here we encountered”: Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno (Spellmount, 1997), p. 75.
“The whole company”: ibid., p. 81.
“We had to dig them”: Lewis, p. 167.
“the urgent need for”: USMHI First U.S. Army report of operations, 20 Oct. 1943–1 Aug. 1944.
“We were essentially”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“A sheet of flame”: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson MS, Overlord files.
“There was, I think”: Charles Farrell, Reflections (Pentland, 2000), p. 20.
“We were all rather”: Cloudsley-Thompson MS.
“Christ!” he said: Patrick Hennessy, Young Man in a Tank (privately published, 1997), p. 79.
“There were a lot”: Kerr, Overlord correspondence.
“strolling, hands in pockets”: quoted in Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 36.
“knowing that with”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“The front tanks are”: Ken Tout, Tank! Forty Hours of Battle (London, 1985), p. 39.
“Driver left”: Andy Cropper, Dad’s War (Anmas, 1994), p. 33.
“It was a hell”: Lewis Keeble, Worm’s Eye View: The Recollections of Lewis Keeble, Appendix C to Battlefield Tour: 1/4 KOYLI in the NW Europe Campaign.
“We discussed”: Craig, p. 176.
“They kept saying”: Pogue, p. 333, 25 Jan. 1945.
“The spirit of human”: Craig, p. 31.
“On an average”: Robin Hastings, An Undergraduate’s War (Bell House, 1997), p. 104.
“I have drawn”: Rathbone, Overlord correspondence.
“We were often”: Selerie, Overlord correspondence.
“None of us were”: Lapp, Armageddon files.
“I told them”: Diercks, Armageddon files.
“Shit and shit”: Barry Broadfoot, ed., Six War Years (Toronto, 1974), p. 97.
“War is a merry thing!”: Overlord files.
“The first men to die”: AI Godau, Armageddon files.
“The Russian won’t”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I see worried faces”: Kurt Meyer, Grenadiers (Fedorowiz Publishing, 1994), p. 134.
“From 6:30 to 8 a.m.”: Zimmer, Overlord files.
“How did the poor”: Poppel, p. 221.
“My darling Irmi”: Overlord files.
“In Soviet thinking”: P. H. Vigor, Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory (Macmillan, 1984), p. 137.
“This was the last”: Merridale, p. 167.
“The enemy’s use”: Armageddon files.
“They all looked pitiful”: Merridale, p. 242.
“camels on their knees”: ibid., p. 259.
“One night you sleep”: Pisma S Voiny, p. 188.
“It was incomprehensible”: Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 40.
“There are a great many”: Moltke, pp. 282–83.
“No one ever laughs”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 104, 25 June 1944.
“For days we have”: ibid., p. 107.
“We thought it impossible”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Our nerves were shot”: Cropper, p. 38.
“The floor of the valley”: Eversley Belfield and Hubert Essame, The Battle for Normandy (London, 1975), p. 209.
“My driver was burning”: Lewis, p. 271.
“We were shell-shocked”: Michael Reynolds, Men of Steel (Spelmount, 1999), pp. 32–33
“the remainder of the war”: Spectator, 5 June 1964.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO JAPAN: DEFYING FATE
“Old friendships dissolve”: Australian Forces Weekly Intelligence Review, No. 118 NZ External Affairs file 84/6/1, Pt.1.
“India is not at present”: LHA Lethbridge papers, Lethbridge Report, p. 5.
“It is now our turn”: Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind, p. 555.
“The physical hammering”: Hart, p. 162.
“It was a stinking hell”: ibid., p. 158.
“There are few things”: Thompson, Burma, p. 219.
“We shot them on the tennis court”: ibid., p. 215.
“We were attacked”: ibid., p. 220.
“Your nerves got”: ibid., p. 190.
“When you get to”: ibid., p. 193.
“Come on you chaps”: Hart, p. 187.
“Well, Sam”: ibid., p. 173.
“Almost to a man”: Raymond Cooper, B Company (Dobson, 1978), p. 137.
“In the rain, with no”: ibid., p. 389.
“If you went out”: Wooldridge, p. 132.
“Enemy dead were”: Harry Gailey, Bougainville, 1943–45: The Forgotten Campaign (University of Kentucky, 1991), p. 155.
“Out here the war life”: Fussell, p. 109.
“It wasn’t dysentery”: Gailey, p. 124.
“Even under the best”: John Monks, A Ribbon and a Star (Henry Holt, 1945), p. 40.
“Large bogeys bearing”: Wooldridge, p. 163.
“The carrier below”: ibid., p. 177.
“We had hardly any”: Miller, p. 147.
“It reminded me of”: Carl Hoffman, Saipan: The Beginning of the End (U.S. Marine Corps, 1950), p. 223.
“Nowhere have I seen”: Time, 3 July 1944.
“They lost all account”: Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948), p. 249.
“He was pretty shaken”: Wooldridge, p. 209.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE GERMANY BESIEGED
“You and I are both”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I have buried all”: ibid.
“Then there’ll be nothing”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 86.
“I know why you want”: AI Moser, Armageddon files.
“Café Kaefer”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“To be nineteen”: Fussell, p. 10.
“a walkover”: Harris to Portal, 1 Nov. 1944, Cochrane Papers.
“Until we get Antwerp”: Marshall Papers, Box 67/13, 25 Sept. 1944.
“This is not only true”: Devers, Military Review, Vol. 27, No. 7, Oct. 1947, p. 6.
“We all thought the war”: Koa Wing, p. 236, 29 Sept. 1944.
“This … is a letter”: Day-Lewis, p. 19.
“the utter misery”: John Ellis, The Sharp End (Pimlico, 1993), p. 30.
“By the winter Americans”: Pogue, The Supreme Command files, MHI Carlisle.
In Montgomery’s 21st: Dr. John Petty, British Army Review (summer, 2010), p. 89.
“The English, and even more”: Armageddon files.
“Dear General,” Eisenhower wrote: Marshall Papers, Box 67/15.
“What a mess”: Ellis, p. 96.
“Words cannot describe”: A. K. Altes and N.K.C.A. In’t Veld, The Forgotten Battle: Overlook and the Maas Salient, 1944–45 (Spellmount, 1995), p. 160.
“The war was over”: Broadfoot, p. 231.
“I remember from”: Robert Kotlowitz, Before Their Times (Anchor, 1998), p. 137.
“We strung out across”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“That’s what I keep”: ibid.
Alan Brooke was heard: USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, Supreme Command files.
“With our tent”: George Neill, Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. 85, 91, 95–97.
“Through my vision slit”: Metelmann, p. 87.
“your butt hurt”: Schoo, Armageddon files.
“Jesus Christ!”: Kotlowitz, pp. 120–21.
“burst into tears”: AI Beavers, Armageddon files.
“If you are brave”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I wasn’t scared”: AI Moody, Armageddon files.
“Fear reigned”: Donald Burgett, Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne (Dell, 1999), p. 1.
“They looked peaceful”: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“It was so foggy”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 120.
“Gordon got ripped”: Fussell, p. 131.
in the small town: William Hitchock, Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–45 (Faber, 2008), pp. 87, 89.
“The shattered remnants”: George D. Graves, Blood and Snow: The Ardennes [n.p.].
“My sergeant and I”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 113.
“We finished the battle”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Americans are not brought up”: USMHI Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
“The record of accomplishment”: Blumenson, Parameters.
“I shot myself”: Henry Hills narrative, p. 257, Armageddon files.
The recommendation was: Bowlby, p. 109.
“We left along our path”: Anders, p. 251.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
“Lieutenant, sir”: Krisztian Ungvary, Battle for Budapest (Tauris, 2003), p. 20.
“The young soldier”: ibid., p. 28.
“promised that Budapest”: ibid., p. 41.
“This is the most beautiful”: ibid., p. 52.
“would not ruin”: ibid., p. 35.
“The Russkis”: ibid., p. 111.
Bizarrely, a group of: ibid., p. 64.
“It was a girl of about”: ibid., p. 141.
“Leaving the room”: ibid., p. 142.
“Supply situation intolerable”: ibid., p. 147.
“Haven’t you got a mother”: ibid., p. 239.
“In narrow Kazinczy”: ibid., p. 247.
“Pus, blood, gangrene”: ibid., p. 203.
“The Hitlerists continued”: ibid., p. 208.
“They were simple”: ibid., p. 293.
“a small, bird-like”: Donald T. Peak, Fire Mission (Sunflower University Press, 2001), p. 148.
“I’ve had enough”: Charles Felix, Crossing the Sauer (Burford Books, 2002), p. 153.
a soldier in Aaron Larkin’s: MS, Aaron’s War, Armageddon files.
Pfc. Harold Lindstrom: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“We were members”: History Branch Office of the JAG with the U.S. Forces European Theatre, 18 July 1942–l Nov. 1945, Vol. 1, pp. 242–49.
