‘The unreality had’ Artemis Cooper Cairo in the War Hamish Hamilton 1989 p.80
‘Sweat shining, hair bleached’ ibid. p.117
‘Groppi’s at Cairo’ McManners p.85
‘not because of’ Vittorio Vallicella Diario di Guerra da El Alamein alla tragica ritirata 1942–1943 Edizioni Arterigere 2009 p.22
‘How many times’ ibid. p.76
‘Italian soldiers resented’ ibid. p.59
‘after nearly twenty’ ibid. p.62
‘For those lucky enough’ ibid. p.70
‘When Vallicella caught’ ibid. p.65
‘about the hell’ ibid. p.85
‘I had the pleasant surprise’ Ostellino p.143 11.12.41
‘We could never fire’ J. Cloudsley-Thompson unpublished MS
‘What a shock to find’ Vallicella p.16
‘Exploring the town’ ibid. p.20
‘Some Arabs found’ ibid. p.17
‘Even here our allies’ ibid. p.18
‘We hope this nightmare’ ibid. p.19
‘The order came’ McManners pp.101 & 108
Chapter 6 – Barbarossa
‘We were all expecting’ Catherine Merridale Ivan’s War Faber 2005 p.77
‘Kuznetsov informed me’ ibid. p.75
‘Many, perhaps most’ Howard Liberation p.9
‘The situation is ideal’ Knoke p.47
‘I accepted as natural’ Henry Metelmann Through Hell for Hitler Spellmount 1990 pp.15 & 24
‘Now you see how far’ Potsdam Vol. IV p.341
‘God knows, you are not’ Tooze p.546
‘The war with Russia’ Michael Jones The Retreat: Hitler’s First Defeat John Murray 2009 p.23
‘You can tell your “source”’ Bellamy p.147
‘the war will begin’ Sebastian p.368
‘We must win’ Goebbels Diaries 23.6.41
‘It may so happen’ Valentin Berezhkov Stranitsy diplomaticheskoy istorii Moscow 1982 pp.69 & 212
‘We were uncritically’ Martin Poppel Heaven & Hell Spellmount 1988 p.11
‘Our destination is Russia’ ibid. p.70
‘These days bogs’ Bellamy p.197
‘As there seemed’ IWM Kurylak MS
‘I never shot as well’ Knoke p.45
‘All of a sudden’ Jones Retreat p.1
‘There were hundreds’ ibid. p.7
‘For the Motherland’ Merridale p.69
‘We were following Napoleon’s’ Jones Retreat p.6
‘The pitiful hordes’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.545
‘We launch wonderful attacks’ ibid. p.546
‘some even crawling’ Jones Retreat p.10
‘When the commentator’ ibid. p.55
‘So now Russia will get’ Clare Milburn Mrs Milburn’s Diaries Harrap 1979 p.101
‘Have they entered Moscow?’ Sebastian p.374
‘The war against these’ Jones Retreat p.18
‘I am repeatedly’ ibid. p.14
‘Eyes had been’ Bellamy p.189
‘missed the German offensive’ ibid. p.232
‘They are crying’ Vasily Grossman A Writer at War ed. Lyuba Vinogradova & Antony Beevor Harvill 2006 p.23
‘We were surprised’ Roderic Braithwaite Moscow 1941 Profile 2006 p.80
‘What am I to say’ Moskvin quoted Pis’ma s voiny Ioshkar-Ola 1995 p.87
‘some in trucks’ Gabriel Temkin My Just War Presidio 1998 p.60
‘Especially those wounded’ Grossman p.19
‘the Russian genius’ Bellamy p.63
‘Papa, our Valik’ Merridale p.127
‘The fascists drove us’ Pisma S Voiny p.60
‘It’s not surprising’ Merridale p.127
‘I am writing for posterity’ ibid. p.220 25.3.43
‘a courageous garrison’ Bellamy p.187
‘It is increasingly clear’ Halder p.167
‘I believed that Russia’ Moltke p.151 16.7.41
‘One thing seems certain’ ibid. p.154
‘Everyone laughs’ Grossman p.17
‘I felt an incredible’ Jones Retreat p.27
‘We go to look at’ Grossman p.45
‘I thought I’d seen’ ibid. p.48
‘I have told myself’ ibid. p.96
‘if we do not intend’ David Glanz Barbarossa Tempus 2001 p.82
‘If we don’t succeed’ Moltke p.168
‘It is wet and cold’ Jones Retreat p.52
‘From now on’ ibid. p.56
‘The men hauled’ ibid. p.59
‘Hello, Zoya!’ Pis’ma s voiny pp.24–5
‘The back wheel’ Owen & Walters p.155
‘The roads have become’ Jones Retreat p.74
‘In essence all the’ Zhukov to Konstantin Simonov, quoted The Times 6.5.2010
‘The leader did not’ Merridale p.84
‘Shoot me if you like’ ibid. p.85
‘The Führer himself’ Jones Retreat p.192
‘Eastern campaign extended’ Moltke p.187
Chapter 7 – Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved
‘Soon the Germans’ Konstantin Rokossovskii Soldatskii Dolg Olun Press Moscow 2002 p.8
‘Thus we are approaching’ Bellamy p.316 from Haupt Assault on Moscow 1941 p.152
‘Relief and happiness’ Jones Retreat p.125
‘Out of the snowstorm’ ibid. p.141
‘Each time we leave’ ibid. p.193
‘Eighty men were brought’ ibid. p.140
‘methodically, precisely’ Michael Jones The Siege of Leningrad John Murray 2008 p.74
‘Our soldiers are only’ ibid. p.78
‘You have yourself’ Khrushchev p.256
‘Our guys just didn’t’ Jones Leningrad p.117
‘It is not worth risking’ ibid. p.40
‘We are approaching’ ibid. p.45
‘grass cakes found’ Lazar’ Brontman Voennyi dnevnik korrespondenta “Pravdy” [War Diary of a Pravda Correspondent] Moscow, 2007 pp.55–6 19.8.42
‘I have received a letter’ Pis’ma s voiny p.31
‘All our soldiers’ Jones Leningrad p.134
‘Lena, things are getting’ ibid. p.149
‘It was as if that boy’ ibid. p.152
‘In Svetlana Magaeva’s’ ibid.
‘People are so weak’ ibid. p.163
‘I learned what war’ Nikolai Nikulin Vospominaniya o voine St. Petersburg 2009 internet published
‘He fell to the ground’ Jones Leningrad p.193
‘Lidiya Okhapkina had her’ ibid. p.206
‘One woman, utterly’ ibid. p.215
‘I have often wondered’ Jones Retreat p.201
‘I have never heard’ ibid. p.203
‘When I finished’ ibid.
‘There is a serious cost’ ibid. p.235
‘I grabbed a saw’ ibid. p.261
‘He lay for a while’ ibid. p.97
‘as we picked our way’ Jones Leningrad p.279
‘The fact that we did not’ Jones Retreat p.196
‘The only thing holding us’ ibid. p.61
‘They’ll kill the lot of you’ Merridale p.99
‘To discourage desertion’ Zhadobin et al. eds Ognennaya duga: Kurskaya bitva glazami Lubyanki [Arc of Fire: The Battle of Kursk as Seen Through the Eyes of the Lubyanka] Moscow 2003 p.25
‘This is no gentleman’s war’ Jones Retreat p.82
‘They whined and grovelled’ Merridale p.251
‘We have blundered’ Jones Retreat p.107
‘Even if we capture Moscow’ ibid. p.98
‘Forty per cent of our men’ Mathilde Wolff-Monckeburg On the Other Side p.57
‘Oh I used to be’ Grossman p.53
‘If we do win’ ibid. p.54
‘I never believe them Roosians’ Nixon p.156
‘First, Russia is an’ Wendell Willkie One World New York 1942 p.167
‘grateful recognition’ Spectator 19.6.42
‘It hasn’t half’ Koa Wing p.122 23.2.42
Ch
apter 8 – America Embattled
‘A Princeton poll’ Public Opinion p.19
‘We over here’ Roosevelt Letters p.286
‘Before the advent’ Robert Sherwood The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins Eyre & Spottiswoode 1948 Vol. I p.132
‘We haven’t heard’ Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten eds John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters Heinemann 1975 p.201
‘If it weren’t for’ ibid. p.206
‘The question of whether’ Berle & Jacobs p.314
‘Who among us’ Donald Nelson Arsenal of Democracy Harcourt Brace 1946 p.85
‘An army post’ Carson McCullers Reflections in a Golden Eye Houghton Mifflin 1941 p.1
‘slowly gathering together’ Eric Sevareid Not so Wild a Dream Knopf 1969 p.201
‘The US Army started’ Martin Blumenson Parameters Vol. XIX, No. 4 December 1989
‘We’re going to war’ Carlo D’Este Eisenhower Holt 2002 p.264
‘that the United States had’ The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins Vol. I p.131
‘I am not in a hurry’ BNA PREM3/475/1
‘I know of no’ David Kennedy Freedom from Fear Oxford 1999 p.232
‘The ability of the’ Robert Dallek Lone Star Rising Oxford 1991 p.197
‘All talk centers around’ IWM MP Troy Papers 95/25/1
‘Some of my friends’ ibid. letter of 9.6.41
‘Historian David Kennedy’ Kennedy p.525
‘afraid, unhappy and bewildered’ Geoffrey Perrett Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph University of Wisconsin 1973 p.79
‘Dear Jim, When will’ Roosevelt p.370
‘Fighting and death everywhere’ Meirion & Susie Harries Soldiers of the Sun Heinemann 1991 p.222
‘In the summer of 1939’ see John Colvin Nomonhan Quartet 1999
‘I understand you are’ Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper Forgotten Armies Penguin 2004 p.71
‘We were flabbergasted’ Alvin Kiernan The Unknown Battle of Midway Yale 2005 p.2
‘the glorious news’ IzumiyaTatsuro The Minami Organ Rangoon 1967 p.82
‘a country of Negroes and Jews’ Mack Smith p.273
‘The attack, whatever it may’ Steinbeck p.248 8.12.41
‘Ladies’ Home Journal had published’ How America Lives Henry Holt 1941
‘War is changing’ ibid. p.20
‘I knew after Pearl Harbor’ Arthur Schlesinger A Life in the Twentieth Century Mariner Books 2000 p.287
‘the war was neither’ John Morton Blum V Was for Victory Harcourt Brace 1976 pp.201 & 89
‘We arrived in the midst’ Schlesinger pp.287–8
‘Geoffrey Perrett has observed’ Perrett p.199
Chapter 9 – Japan’s Season of Triumph
‘I SUPPOSE YOU’LL SHOVE THE LITTLE MEN OFF’
‘itching to beat’ John Dower War Without Mercy Pantheon 1986 p.242
‘How many really die’ Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Kamikaze Diaries University of Chicago Press 2006 p.62
‘Japan, why don’t I’ ibid. p.79 et seq.
‘Each evening we’ Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee All This Hell Kentucky University Press 2000
‘It was a joke’ ibid. p.8
‘modern Pompeians’ Bayly & Harper p.141
‘There was a mutiny’ ibid. p.66
‘most frail, tarty’ ibid. p.111
‘I said to myself’ Colin Smith Singapore Burning p.123
‘one section of’ ibid. p.146
‘How is this possible?’ ibid. p.157
‘We now understood’ Col. Masanobu Tsuji Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat Spellmount 1997 p.91
‘Brussels ball’ Diana Cooper Trumpets from the Steep Hart Davis 1960 p.127
‘Every man waved’ Smith p.220
‘The din was terrific’ ibid. p.238
‘scenes of indescribable’ ibid. p.245
‘a nice, good man … calm’ ibid. p.286
‘The Jitra line’ Tsuji p.102
‘They took my father’ Smith p.416
‘a thing which I am sure’ Bayly & Harper p.120
‘The British are treating’ ibid. p.124
‘We have not treated’ Smith p.426
‘That is the end’ Bayly & Harper p.130
‘It was as if’ Smith p.438
‘I don’t think’ ibid. p.496
‘I myself only feel’ ibid. p.473
‘Having lost their nerve’ ibid. p.480
‘In civil life I am’ Bayly & Harper p.142
‘Their conduct was bestial’ BNA WO106/2550B
‘It shouldn’t have happened’ Smith p.497
‘Chin up, girls’ ibid. p.533
‘The fall of Singapore’ Bayly & Harper p.126
‘had been handed over’ ibid. p.147
‘The area presented’ Stephen Abbott And All My War is Done Pentland 1991 p.31
‘The heavens had indeed’ Bayly & Harper p.117
‘I saw them tramping’ Smith p.550
‘Groups of them were’ Harries p.264
‘We had cause’ John Kennedy The Business of War Hutchinson 1957 p.198
‘I moved to the Nipponese’ Edward Dunlop The Diaries of ‘Weary’ Dunlop Viking 1986 pp.12–13
2 THE ‘WHITE ROUTE’ FROM BURMA
‘In a little house’ Yvonne Vaz Ezdani ed. Songs of the Survivors Noronha Goa 2007
‘Out! Quick!’ Daw Sein Les Dix milles vies d’une femme birmane Claude Delachet Fuillon 1978 pp.152–5
‘I’m not dead!’ Edzani p.87
‘Life begins with’ Bayly & Harper p.161
‘All we saw were’ Julian Thompson Forgotten Voices of Burma Ebury 2009 p.21
‘among other subject’ ibid. p.164
‘We Europeans lived’ ibid. p.88
‘It is rather disheartening’ LHA Brooke-Popham Papers File V 7/18/2
‘[The Japanese] not only’ John Smyth Before the Dawn Cassell 1957 pp.139–40
‘a country which had lost’ Mi Mi Khaing A Burmese Family Longman 1946 p.130
‘It came to us’ Tatsuro p.120
‘Has Singapore fallen?’ ibid. p.142
‘We didn’t know what hit us’ Bayly & Harper p.175
‘I sent my runner’ Thompson Burma pp.11–12
‘We were arrogant’ ibid. p.41
‘The general atmosphere’ Bayly & Harper p.160
‘a Harley Street specialist’ ibid. p.163
‘The attitude of the army’ Thompson Burma p.34
‘We always felt’ Bayly & Harper p.339
‘How thrilling it was’ ibid. p.173
‘The clearing was littered’ Geoffrey Tyson Forgotten Frontier p.79
‘Her voice soared clear’ Ezdani p.80
‘The medical wards are’ Mrs G. Portal quoted Bayly & Harper p.189
‘It is the misfortune’ Jawaharlal Nehru Selected Works of Nehru Orient Longman 1980 Vol. XII p.269
Chapter 10 – Swings of Fortune
1 BATAAN
‘We cannot win’ James Reston Prelude to Victory NY 1942 p.x
‘The Army … are aiming at’ Slessor Papers File XIIc
‘After Pearl Harbor’ USMHI Forrest Pogue The Supreme Command files
‘It will be a long, hard war’ Christopher Thorne The Issue of War Oxford 1985 p.25
‘People are crazy’ Blum p.97
‘The Good War myth’ Schlesinger pp.283–4
‘The men have no great’ Pogue p.335
‘A behaviourist noted’ Perrett p.213
‘Suddenly we realized’ Fred Mears Carrier Combat Doubleday 1944 p.3
‘It was amazing how long’ Kiernan p.3
‘Apparently it takes’ Ernie Pyle Here is Your War Pocket NY 1945 p.555
‘They came up the boulevards’ Mydans p.147
‘I guess we are’ Elizabeth Norman Band of Angels Random House 1999 p.66
‘Scores of Japs ripped’ William E. Dyess The Dyess Story Putnam New York 1944 p.43
‘the most deplo
rable’ John Glusman Conduct Under Fire Viking 2007 p.136
‘They were usually’ Monahan & Neidel-Greenlee p.41
‘The wounded often’ ibid. p.50
‘The argument raged’ Alfred Weinstein Barbed Wire Surgeon Macmillan 1947 p.34
‘Now we knew’ Donald Knox Death March Harcourt Brace 1981 p.121
‘If you fell’ ibid. p.136
‘just so disappointed’ Glusman p.197
‘Poor Wainwright!’ The Eisenhower Diaries Norton 1981 p.54
‘The news commentators’ Blum p.54
2 THE CORAL SEA AND MIDWAY
‘Okay, so long’ Captain Walter Karig & Commander Eric Purdon Battle Report: Pacific War Middle Phase Rinehart 1946 p.19
‘It was pretty discouraging’ E.T. Wooldridge ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific Smithsonian 1993 p.41
‘They were curious’ ibid. p.42
‘fires had gotten’ ibid. p.45
‘Many of the sailors’ Kiernan p.13
‘We had a small group’ Wooldridge p.281
‘I just felt at home’ ibid. p.285
‘a sailor on Hornet’ ibid. p.68
‘There was oil very’ ibid. p.168
‘There is something in’ Herman Melville Israel Potter 1854
‘After a battle is over’ Walter Lord Incredible Victory New York 1967 p.87
‘The fate of the United States’ John Costello The Pacific War Collins 1981 p.285
‘All of us knew’ The Battle of Midway Round Table http.//www.midway12.org
‘When approximately one mile’ US Naval Historical Center Esders After-Action report
‘I was not aware’ Kiernan p.45
‘I was mad because’ Wooldridge pp.56–7
‘I saw this glint’ ibid. p.58
‘As I looked back’ Tom Cheek A Ring of Coral Battle of Midway Roundtable http//home.comcast.net/r2russ/midway.ringcoral.htm
‘I was horrified’ Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okimuya Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan Annapolis 1955 p.177
3 GUADALCANAL AND NEW GUINEA
‘In the dirty dawn’ Robert Leckie Helmet for my Pillow Ebury 2010 p.57
‘Wizard!!!’ Costello p.177
‘The enemy ships had’ Bruce Loxton & Chris Coulthard-Clark The Shame of Savo Allen & Unwin 1994 pp.143–7
‘The navy was still’ ibid. p.265
‘Whether these were’ Donald Miller D-Days in the Pacific Simon & Schuster 2005 p.68
‘At daybreak a couple’ ibid. p.72
‘Here was cacophony’ Leckie p.78
‘Morale was very bad’ Miller pp.67–8
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