Ziegelmeyer, Ernst, 169, 171
Zimmer, SS Panzergrenadier Fritz, 544
Zimmerman, Walter, 521
Zipper, Operation, 645
Zoya, Zarubina, 147
ukowski, Tadeusz, 21
Zweig, Stefan, 9, 69
Zyklon B (gas), 513
Acknowledgements
I feel very fortunate that the cast of colleagues and friends to whom I am indebted for assistance changes little with my successive books. At HarperCollins in London, the counsel of my editors Arabella Pike and Robert Lacey, together with that of Andrew Miller at Knopf in New York, much enhanced the text. My agents Michael Sissons in London and Peter Matson in New York have been steering my courses for longer than any of us care to remember. Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, CH, MC, Don Berry, Professor N.A.M. Rodger and Dr Williamson Murray offered immensely valuable comments on all or sections of the manuscript, and corrected some of my most egregious errors. Dr Lyuba Vinogradova translated much Russian material, while Serena Sissons culled Italian memoirs, letters and diaries. Dr Tami Biddle of the US War Army College is wonderfully generous in passing on to me material which she gathers for her own researches. Rod Suddaby is only the foremost of the Imperial War Museum staff whose assistance contributes so much to the works of every historian of modern war, while the London Library and the National Archive provide wonderfully sympathetic settings for research. Douglas Matthews here once more shows himself a master indexer, and I am warmly grateful for his contribution. With only a brief interruption, Rachel Lawrence has been my long-suffering and peerlessly effective personal assistant for twenty-five years, an ordeal which includes collating my notes and references. My wife Penny is never less than a perfect partner, though I sometimes fancy that she would prefer to have lived through the Second World War than to read any more books about it written by me. To them all I offer deep gratitude, for I know that my labours would swiftly plough into sand without such sympathy, guidance and support.
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* Throughout this book, the word ‘casualties’ is used in its technical military sense, meaning men killed, missing, wounded or taken prisoner. In most ground actions in most theatres, approximately three men were wounded for each one killed.
* For an explanation, see chapter 14.
* In this text, for convenience I have referred to all Axis decrypted messages as Ultra, although the Americans used the codeword Magic to denote Japanese traffic.
* In this text the italicised word front is used as in the Red Army’s parlance, to denote an army group.
* The destruction of Dresden occupies such a prominent place in the popular legend of the war that it is striking to notice that the latest research suggests that 25,000 victims died there on 13–14 February, rather than the hundreds of thousands once supposed. This does not influence the controversy about whether the bombing was necessary, but indicates that it caused far fewer deaths than the 1943 bombing of Hamburg, or the 1945 Tokyo firestorm.
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