The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945

by Rick Atkinson

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  NEWSPAPERS

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  PAPERS, LETTERS, COLLECTIONS, PERSONAL NARRATIVES, AND DIARIES

  Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Abilene, Kans.: Henry S. Aurand Papers; Harold R. Bull Papers; Harry C. Butcher Papers; A. Dayton Clark Papers; J. Lawton Collins Papers; Norman D. Cota Papers; Robert C. Davie Papers; Dwight D. Eisenhower Papers; Alvan C. Gillem, Jr., Papers; Courtney H. Hodges Papers; C. D. Jackson Papers; Thomas B. Larkin Papers; Thomas W. Mattingly Papers; Arthur Nevins Papers; Floyd S. Parks Papers; Henry B. Sayler Papers; Walter Bedell Smith Papers; Barbara Wyden Papers

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.: Edward J. Flynn Papers; Anna Roosevelt Halsted Papers; Map Room conferences; Ross T. McIntire Papers; Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers; U.S. Secret Service records

  George C. Marshall Foundation Research Library, Lexington, Va.: Harold S. Frum, “The Soldier Must Write”; George C. Marshall Papers; Frank McCarthy Collection; Royce L. Thompson Collection; Lucian K. Truscott, Jr., Papers

  Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.: Henry J. Amy Papers; Frederick L. Anderson Papers; Kingsley Andersson Papers; William Henry Baumer Papers; Heber Blankenhorn Papers; Robert D. Burhans Papers; Howard V. Canan Papers; Don E. Carleton Papers; Darrell William Coates Papers; Thomas L. Crystal, Jr., Papers; Robert T. Frederick Papers; Harold S. Frum Papers; Hermann Goering Papers; Norman D. King Papers; John H. Linden Papers; Robert M. Littlejohn Papers; Craig W. H. Luther Papers; James B. Mason Papers; Donald McClure Papers; Walter J. Muller Papers; Boris T. Pash Papers; George Smith Patton Papers; James H. Phillips Papers; Ewart G. Plank Papers; J. Milnor Roberts, Jr., Papers; Frank S. Ross Papers; Thor M. Smith Papers; Langan W. Swent Papers; Pierre C. T. Verheye Papers; Helen Van Zonneveld Papers

  Imperial War Museum, London: William Steel Brownlie, “And Came Safe Home”; Christopher “Kit” Dawnay Papers; S. C. Donnison diary; Edward M. Elliott, “Combat Diary of Edward McCosh Elliott, 1944”; E. Jones Papers; K. G. Oakley, “Normandy ‘D’ Day 1944”; J. H. Patterson Papers; L. F. Skinner, “The Man Who Worked on Sundays”; N. T. Tangye diary; John M. Thorpe, “A Soldier’s Tale, to Normandy and Beyond”

  Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C.: Charles E. Bohlen Papers; Wallace Carroll Papers; Ira Eaker Papers; Truman K. Gibson Papers; W. Averell Harriman Papers; H. Kent Hewitt Papers; Everett S. Hughes Papers; Ernest J. King Papers; William D. Leahy Papers; George S. Patton, Jr., Papers; Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Papers; Carl A. Spaatz Papers; John Toland Papers; Hoyt S. Vandenberg Papers

  Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London: Lord Alanbrooke Papers; J. B. Churcher, “A Soldier’s Story”; Francis de Guingand Papers; Geoffrey Hardy-Roberts Papers; H. L. Ismay Papers; B. H. Liddell Hart Papers; T. G. Lindsay, “Operation Overlord Plus”; J. S. W. Stone Papers; R. W. W. “Chester” Wilmot Papers

  McCormick Research Center, First Division Museum, Cantigny, Ill.: Joseph T. Dawson Collection; Theodore L. Dobol Collection; Stanhope Brasfield Mason Papers

  Miscellany: Jack Golden letters; Robert P. Patterson, memoir, a.p.

  National World War II Museum, New Orleans, La.: Alan Anderson Papers; Cyrus C. Aydlett diary; W. Garwood Bacon Papers; Leland A. Baker Papers; John Barnes Papers; Eugene D. Brierre Papers; Dwayne Burns Papers; John Cappell Papers; Carl Cartledge Papers; Charles M. Cooke, Jr., Papers; Willard F. Coonen Papers; Ralph Eastridge Papers; Mary Ferrell Papers; P. L. Fitts Papers; Robert Fullam memoir; Robert M. Gant Papers; Robert D. Georgen Papers; Wayne M. Harris Papers; Harold L. Hoffer Papers; John Lambourne Papers; Joseph T. Layne and Glenn D. Barquest, “Margraten: U.S. Ninth Army Military Cemetery”; Archie Ross Papers; Sid Rowling Papers; Willia
m P. Shaw memoir

  Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, D.C.: H. Kent Hewitt Papers; Samuel Eliot Morison Papers

  New York State Library, Albany, N.Y.: Myra Strachner Gershkoff Papers

  Ohio University Library, Athens, Ohio: Cornelius J. Ryan Papers

  29th Infantry Division Archives, Maryland Military Department, Fifth Regiment Armory, Baltimore, Md.: Neal Beaver, memoir; Charles Hunter Gerhardt Papers; William Puntenney, memoir; John C. Raaen, Jr., “Sir, the 5th Rangers Have Landed Intact”; Seth Shepard, “The Story of the LCI(L) 92”; Robert E. Walker, “With the Stonewallers”

  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Office of History, Ft. Belvoir, Va.: William A. Carter memoirs; William M. Hoge memoirs; William E. Potter memoirs

  U.S. Army Military Academy Special Collections, West Point, N.Y.: John W. Castles, Jr., Papers; Earle C. Cheek Papers; George Bryan Conrad Papers; Garrison H. Davidson Papers; Benjamin A. Dickson Papers; Charles L. Easter Papers; Audie Leon Murphy Papers; Alexander M. Patch, Jr., Papers

  U.S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pa.: Robert W. Black Papers; Omar N. Bradley Papers; Richard H. Byers Papers; Hugh Cole Papers; Richard Collins Papers; Columbus World War II Roundtable Papers; John Connell Papers; Theodore J. Conway Papers; Charles H. Corlett Papers; Raymond H. Croll Papers; Donald E. Currier Papers; John E. Dahlquist Papers; Maurice Delaval Papers; Harold C. Deutsch Papers; Jacob L. Devers Papers; Benjamin A. Dickson Papers; Charles H. Donnelly Papers; Sheffield Edwards Papers; Samuel W. Forgy Papers; James M. Gavin Papers; Hobart Gay Papers; Charles Hunter Gerhardt, memoir; Alvan Cullem Gillem, Jr., Papers; Wade H. Haislip Papers; Chester B. Hansen Papers; Robert W. Hasbrouck Papers; Paul R. Hawley Papers; Waldo Heinrichs, Jr., Papers; Courtney H. Hodges Papers; Thaddeus Holt Papers; William T. Hornaday Papers; Herndon Inge, Jr., Papers; Reuben E. Jenkins Papers; Alan W. Jones Papers; Albert W. Kenner Papers; Brooks Kleber Papers; Oscar W. Koch Papers; John C. H. Lee Papers; Charles B. MacDonald Papers; S. L. A. Marshall Papers; Frank J. McSherry Papers; James E. Moore Papers; Raymond G. Moses Papers; Samuel L. Myers Papers; Sidney H. Negrotto Papers; Arthur S. Nevins Papers; Frank A. Osmanski Papers; Floyd Lavinius Parks Papers; Forrest C. Pogue Papers; Harold E. Potter Papers; D. K. Reimers, “My War”; Matthew B. Ridgway Papers; Pleas B. Rogers Papers; Charles E. Rousek Papers; Howard J. Silbar Papers; William H. Simpson Papers; Thor M. Smith Papers; William S. Triplet Papers; James A. Van Fleet Papers; Numa A. Watson Papers