‘Everything was so’ James Jones The Thin Red Line Collins 1963 p.43
‘[It] was the most tremendous’ Ronald Spector Eagle Against the Sun Viking 1985 pp.205–6
‘I have seen men’ George Johnston The Toughest Fighting in the World Duell, Sloan & Pearce New York 1943 p.5
‘What a hell of a load’ ibid. p.8
‘this is not murder’ ibid. p.40
‘I do not believe’ ibid. p.198
‘Confusion was the keynote’ ibid. p.45
‘Our troops are fighting’ ibid. pp.167–8
‘It was a sly and’ Robert Eichelberger Our Jungle Road to Tokyo Nashville Battery Classics 1989 pp.21–3
Chapter 11 – The British at Sea
1 THE ATLANTIC
‘The bombers’ Julian Thompson The War at Sea Sidgwick & Jackson 1996 p.113
‘I couldn’t see anything’ ibid. p.149
‘sheer unmitigated hell’ J.B. Lamb The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada’s Atlantic War Macmillan Toronto 1979 p.73
‘It was a continual’ AI Harris 11.10.76, Bomber Command files
‘An average of’ Stephen Howarth & David Law eds The Battle of the Atlantic 1939–45 Greenhill 1994 Jurgen Rohwer p.411
‘One minute we had’ ibid. p.51
‘trusting to make’ Richard Woodman The Real Cruel Sea Murray 2004 p.166
‘Living and working’ Howarth & Law p.215
‘race and other population’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.612
‘There will be no’ Erich Topp quoted Howarth & Law p.217
‘amounted almost to’ Corelli Barnett Engage the Enemy More Closely Hodder & Stoughton 1991 p.486
‘This low state of efficiency’ quoted Howarth & Law p.199
‘These problems often’ ibid. p.522
2 ARCTIC CONVOYS
‘While one could keep’ Thompson War at Sea p.160
‘I waited for the swell’ Richard Woodman Arctic Convoys John Murray 2001 p.323
‘We were kept in’ ibid. p.107
‘The mood is bitter’ ibid. p.220
‘rather sad and twitchy’ ibid. p.161
‘The arrival in Kola’ Thompson War at Sea p.161
‘God knows we paid’ Woodman Arctic p.445
3 THE ORDEAL OF PEDESTAL
‘a fantastically wonderful’ Richard Woodman Malta p.379
‘I felt indeed that’ Thompson War at Sea p.192
‘She presented a’ ibid. p.192
‘Most of us felt’ ibid. p.195
‘I could never have’ Woodman Malta p.403
Chapter 12 – The Furnace: Russia in 1942
‘We arrived at 8 p.m.’ Brontman p.132
‘We’re having a little’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945 19.5.42
‘Eastern man is very’ Gunther Blumentritt in The Fatal Decisions Michael Joseph 1952 pp.37–8
‘One explosion next’ Potsdam Vol. VI p.938
‘We wept as we retreated’ Merridale p.133
‘Women also policed’ Brontman p.22 18.6.42
‘psychologically prepared for’ ibid. p.31 4.4.42
‘The night was terribly dark’ Front Diary of N.F. Belov 1941–44 in Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945 23.4.42
‘I have the inescapable’ BNA WO208/1777
‘There was, I said’ Anders p.124
‘we Poles were now’ ibid. p114
‘The civilians are howling’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha pp.271–2 23.10.42
‘These fools have allowed’ Grossman p.127
‘We have to learn’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.273
‘Results deplorable’ Belov diary 9.9.42
‘We ploughed over the’ Potsdam Vol. VI p.1097
‘the streets of the city’ Merridale p.150
‘The officers made them’ Vladimir Pershanin Shtrafniki, razvedchiki, pekhota [Punishment Companies, Reconnaissance, Infantry] Moscow 2010 p.177
‘The wounded, more than’ ibid. p.185
‘Approaching this place’ Grossman p.151
‘I had been imagining’ ibid. p.183
‘I miss you very much’ ibid. p.152
‘There’s firing and thunder’ ibid. p.170
‘seven “cowards” and one’ Bellamy p.520
‘Courage is infectious here’ Grossman p.174
‘Hello, my dear Marusya!’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.273
‘In connection with the’ Bellamy p.380
‘During the night’ Nikulin memoir
‘It shows in the expression’ Jones Seige p.269
‘This happiness’ ibid. p.276
‘A thought is forming’ ibid. p.279
‘They said that the’ Merridale p.165
‘Just as I lay down’ Belov diary 8.10.42
‘The whole place trembled’ Metelmann p.120
‘This is the most beautiful’ Knoke p.80
‘Our thoughts and conversations’ Poppel p.99
‘The implacable struggle’ Potsdam Vol. XI/I p.583
‘Vehicles complete with’ Eugenio Corti Few Returned: 28 days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942–43 University of Missouri Press 1997 p.10
‘But how can you’ ibid. p.26
‘Countless instances of’ ibid. pp.30–1
‘the wounded were lying’ ibid. p.61
‘I was greeted by’ ibid. p.65
‘During halts on those’ ibid. p.194
‘We watched those aircraft’ ibid. p.76
‘Back in the distant patria’ ibid. p.78
‘It was extremely painful’ ibid. p.78
‘I … asked myself’ ibid. p.138
‘in the palm of his’ ibid. p.218
‘At the end of 1942’ Mack Smith p.293
‘I’m in an exceptional’ Merridale p.162
‘There’s no modesty’ Grossman p.225
‘The killing of thousands’ Koa Wing p.152
‘The day of battle’ Belov diary 13.2.43
‘The man is not to my liking’ Halder diaries p.387
‘Our army suddenly’ G.A. Kumanyov Close to Stalin [Ryadom so Stalinym] Moscow, 1999 p.38
Chapter 13 – Living with War
1 WARRIORS
‘I suppose our position’ Antony Hichens Gunboat Command Pen & Sword 2007 p.96
‘One of the fascinations’ USMHI Pogue The Supreme Command files Morgan interview
‘In the early war years’ Max Hastings Armageddon files
‘Dearest Mum’ Robert Kershaw p.203
‘I am absolutely fed up’ Thompson The War at Sea p.111
‘It must take about seven’ Peter White With the Jocks Sutton 2001 p.37
‘My whole generation’ Koa Wing p.173 5.4.43
‘After a few minutes’ ibid. p.60
‘I’ve never flirted’ ibid. p.71
‘After dinner I’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.210
‘There is nothing so’ Blythe Private Words 28.7.43
‘I learned to take care’ AI Thompson, Armageddon files
‘We somehow hoped’ AI Moody, Armageddon files
‘My comrades were mostly’ Ron Davidson MS, Armageddon files
‘I accept this life’ Ronald Blythe ed. Components of the Scene Penguin 1966 p.85
‘Will it ever end’ USMHI Bruce Papers Box 6
‘So much of this war’ Harold Fennema MS, Armageddon files
‘a nightmare’ Eugene Gagliardi MS, Armageddon files
‘As an urban selectee’s’ E.J. Kahn New Yorker 5.12.42
‘The personal bodily’ Eugene Sledge With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa Ebury 2010 p.91
‘The damnable truth’ Farley Mowat And No Birds Sang Cassell 1980 p.203
‘There was nothing subtle’ Sledge p.72
‘Put him, inactive’ Borthwick p.61
‘Young Cutter’ White p.155
‘We had learned our first’ IWM 92/1/1 C.R. Eke MS A Game of Soldiers
‘It’s hard for guys my age’ Mowat p.107
‘It
’s funny, the things’ James Jones & Art Weithas WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering Grosset & Dunlap 1975
‘One learned to accept’ AI Mahlo, Armageddon files
‘I was so young’ AI Moser, Armageddon files
‘The man disintegrated’ Roscoe Blunt Foot Soldier: A Combat Infantryman’s War in Europe Da Capo Press 2002 p.86
‘Life was so free’ Norman Craig The Broken Plume IWM 1982 p.77
‘Nobody has the courage’ Moltke p.275 26.1.43
‘We weren’t going to’ Paul Fussell The Boys’ Crusade Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2004 p.98
‘The company was’ AI Günther, Armageddon files
‘I should like’ Spectator 16.7.43
‘The report has almost’ Spectator 18.12.42
‘If it is not accepted’ David Elliott quoted in Private Words p.183 30.4.43
‘The British Army is not’ Michael Foot Bevan McGibbon & Kee 1965 p.388
‘Tea from the British’ Blum p.66
‘These gravely yearned-for’ ibid. p.64
‘a beautiful young man’ AI Beavers, Armageddon files
‘I’m going home!’ Schoo MS, Armageddon files
‘Any guy overseas’ Blum p.65
‘I see all these thousands’ Steinbeck p.264
‘I’m going to start’ Blum p.67
‘They are’ Iris Origo War in Val D’Orcia Cape 1947 p.58 15.8.43
2 HOME FRONTS
‘Yesterday I received’ Belov diary 31.12.42
‘Any personal balance’ Sebastian p.585 2.12.43
‘A pale, thin woman’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.273 11.9.42
‘What is left of it?’ ibid. p.273 1.10.42
‘We’ve got to work’ ibid. 20.10.42
‘We had no life’ Braithwaite p.131
‘Farm times became’ Lizzie Collingham The Taste of War Allen Lane 2011 p.78
‘People were not’ Fraser p.183
‘Edward McCormick’ letter in possession of Mrs Miranda Corben
‘Gladys Skillett’ Times obituary 27.2.2010 by Colin Smith
‘Now it is dawn’ Miriam Mafai Pane Nero: Donne e vita quotidiana nella seconda Guerra mondiale Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1987 pp.159–62
‘The cold and damp’ ibid. p.243
‘It was sad to see’ Say & Holland p.297
‘Stefan Kurylak’ IWM Kurylak MS
‘We are being taken’ IWM 99/9/1 Poznanski MS
‘The extraordinary thing’ Anthony Powell A Writer’s Notebook Heinemann 2001 p.94
‘Woke half drunk’ Michael Davie ed. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976 p.567 1.6.44
‘in comparison to’ Last p.221 11.10.42
‘Christmas is going to be’ Martin Crook ed. Wartime Letters of a West Kent Man privately published 2007
‘We never knew’ Spectator 14.12.42
‘His strange uniform’ Blythe Private Words p.43
‘Her face was wooden’ Koa Wing p.188 7.9.43
‘I had a very nice’ Studs Terkel The Good War Hamish Hamilton 1984 p.224
‘I cried because’ Koa Wing p.135 16.6.42
‘He was a soldier’ Terkel p.118
‘Bernice Schmidt’ Janine Sinkoskey Brodine ed. Missing Pieces Hara Publishing 2000 p.49
‘What are you thinking’ Koa Wing p.144 9.10.42
‘Is it possible that’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.35 12.1.41
‘One grows ever more’ ibid. p.60 25.6.42
‘Food was our obsession’ Longmate p.150
‘One morning a jar’ ibid. p.156
‘In this place one’s mind’ Tamsin Day-Lewis ed. Last letters Home Macmillan 1995
‘Imports of European delicacies’ Blum p.98
‘I’m sick of the same’ Collingham p.112
‘In pursuit of the’ ibid. p.217
‘As they died the government’ Theodore White & Annalee Jacoby Thunder Out of China Gollancz 1947 pp.166–7
‘were still living’ Collingham p.116
‘My father had no’ Mafai p.167
‘Hunger governed all’ Alan Moorehead Eclipse Granta 2000 p.66
‘and had the ordinary’ Norman Lewis Naples ’44, p.26 4.10.43
‘to argue that the war’ BNA FO371 ZM257/18/22
‘That only a relatively’ an exemplary examination of these issues is found in David W. Ellwood Italy 1943–45 Leicester University Press 1985
‘A very different’ ibid. p.152
3 A WOMAN’S PLACE
‘and is, I suspect’ Koa Wing p.172 25.3.43
‘My initiation into’ Longmate p.123
‘the airless workplace’ Baring p.55
‘I suppose in everything’ Koa Wing p.129 15.4.42
‘Lazar Brontman recorded’ Brontman p.185 29.8.42
‘tears running down’ Nikolai Nikulin internet MS
‘I went to visit’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 18.3.43
‘The PPZh is our’ Grossman p.120
‘Villages have become’ Grossman p.119
‘Dear Vova!’ Pis’ma s voiny p.83
‘It sometimes seems’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha Kalinichenko letters 1.12.42 & 1.2.43
‘I push the pedals’ ibid. Kalinichenko letters 20.2.44
‘Maybe you should’ AI Beavers Armageddon files
‘I always believed that women’ AI Harris 14.10.76 Bomber Command files
‘Air Vice-Marshal Edward’ AI Addison Bomber Command files
‘It’s bloody rubbish’ AI Owen, Bomber Command files
‘I was young’ AI von Joest Armageddon files
‘I am … almost’ Koa Wing p.94 17.6.41
‘I did not want to’ ibid. p.104 7.10.41
‘one of the happiest’ ibid. p.248 31.12.44
‘Hostel life has changed’ ibid. p.257 31.3.45
‘Honey, it’s pitiful’ Fennema MS Armageddon files
‘The war has shaken’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1.7.43
‘I would sometimes’ Mafai p.177
Chapter 14 – Out of Africa
‘The English were kind’ Dugan MS Overlord files
‘The force of tradition’ Bob Raymond A Yank in Bomber Command Moynihan 1977 p.101
‘Americans have a greater’ USNA 25 March 1942: Survey of Intelligence Materials No. 16
‘The Americans … know us’ BNA FO371/34116
‘The great and rich men’ Keith Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem Penguin 1967 p.87
‘A whisper is’ Harold Nicolson Diaries Collins 1965 Vol. II 11.2.42
‘The conduct of our’ Commons 22.4.42
‘Things here get better’ Ostellino p.216
‘I assume that England’ Victor Klemperer I Shall Bear Witness Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999 Vol. II p.117
‘We are stuck’ Vallicella p.39
‘For 16 months’ ibid. p.46
‘every man for himself’ ibid. p.55
‘How can we keep’ ibid. p.58
‘We are at the end’ ibid. p.105
‘Before an attack’ Craig p.75
‘I have seen many’ Vallicella p.95
‘Officers and men’ F. Formica ed. Account of the Battle of Deir El Murra Diary of Second Lieutenant Vincenzo Formica www.fereamole.it
‘All our illusions’ ibid. 3.11.42
‘As we drove, vehicles’ ibid.
‘I met Captain Bondi’ ibid. 17.11.42
‘In the tragedy’ Vallicella p.117
‘Reading this order’ ibid. p.119
‘Panzer officer Tassilo’ Hagen pp.176–7
‘In five minutes’ Alfred Perrott-White French Legionnaire John Murray 1953 p.147
‘Suddenly realized’ Koa Wing p.148
‘It is enormously’ Moltke p.260
‘Good news came’ Belov diary 10.11.42
‘We hope he is right’ Vallicella p.125
‘At midnight mass’ ibid. p.154
‘Never has a meal’ ibid. p.155
‘I think the Americans’ Koa Wing p.168 28.2.43
‘the pursuit of Rommel’ USMHI Pogue The Supreme Command interview files
‘I think back’ Formica diary 11.9.43
Chapter 15 – The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943
‘Everyone talks incessantly’ Brontman p.62 12.9.42
‘The Russians weren’t very’ AI Godau, Armageddon files
‘The frontal attacks’ Pershanin p.198
‘Major Anoprienko’ Belov diary 13.3.43
‘It was hard to’ Pershanin p.41
‘For ten days’ Pis’ma s voiny p.199
‘We never heard’ Guy Sajer The Forgotten Soldier Sphere 1971 p.171
‘They are so frightening’ Grossman p.249
‘Not only divisions’ Merridale p.261
‘I received the letter’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha pp.199–202
‘Today a Youssef’ Belov diary 13.1.43
‘They are greenhorns’ ibid.11.8.43
‘This is the first time’ ibid.2.6.43
‘A German deserter’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 31.3.43
‘a big fellow’ Belov diary 2.6.43
‘How fortunate were’ Merridale p.194
‘So many families’ Pis’ma s voiny p.194
‘It grew hot’ Rotmistrov quoted Robin Cross Citadel O’Mara 1993 p.195
‘In a few hours’ Pis’ma s voiny pp.132–3
‘The 676th Rifle Regiment’ Ognennaya duga p.34
‘Forward!’ Cross p.214
‘We had been warned’ ibid. p.215
‘it was an awesome scene’ ibid. p.229
‘The Germans sent tanks’ Brontman pp.39–40 26.7.42
‘It is a shame’ Merridale p.183
‘The Germans had permitted’ Brontman p.162 28.7.43
‘It’s hard now’ Merridale p.203
‘We’ve seen no bread’ Brontman p.153 14.7.43
‘There is no bread’ Ognennaya duga p.52
‘Death, and only death’ ibid. pp.79–80
‘We passed through’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 9.10.43
‘I was shaken by’ Pershanin p.35
‘[They] were a terrible’ ibid. p.27
‘We march in the footsteps’ ibid.1.11.43
‘The deputy battalion commander’ Grossman p.247
‘The enemy’s front’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 20.9.43
‘The weather and mud’ Belov diary 28.11.43
‘the soldiers with whom’ Ognennaya duga pp.89–90
‘You shit!’ Pershanin p.78
‘Apart from their dwindling’ Cross p.250
‘Frantic men were abandoning’ Sajer p.315
‘Each German soldier’ Hagen p.181
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