Five Days That Shocked the World: Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II

by Nicholas Best

  1. Dulles, The Secret Surrender, p. 236.

  2. Spike Milligan, Milligan’s War, London: Michael Joseph, 1988, p. 217.

  3. Ibid., p. 219.

  24. Berlin Falls

  1. Chuikov, The End of the Third Reich, p. 257.

  2. Knappe, Soldat, p. 61.

  3. O’Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, p. 283.

  4. Ibid., p. 290.

  5. Ibid., p. 291.

  6. Zhukov, The Memoirs of Marshal Zhukov, p. 625.

  7. Junge, Until the Final Hour, p. 194.

  8. Ibid.

  9. Ibid., p. 219.

  10. O’Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, p. 248.

  11. Ibid., p. 249.

  12. Altner, Berlin Dance of Death, p. 202.

  25. Now That the Führer Has Gone

  1. Sereny, Albert Speer, p. 543.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Tickell, Odette, p. 329.

  4. Victor Klemperer, To the Bitter End, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000, p. 451.

  26. Germany Surrenders

  1. Bernard Montgomery, The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, London: Collins, 1958, p. 335.

  2. Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, London: Phoenix, 2009, p. 684.

  3. Turner, Countdown to Victory, p. 417.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid., p. 418.

  Epilogue

  1. Tickell, Odette, p. 332.

  2. John Carey, The Faber Book of Reportage, London: Faber and Faber, 1987, p. 643.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid., p. 644.

  5. Robert Conot, Justice at Nuremberg, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1983, p. 380.

  6. Carey, Faber Book of Reportage, p. 647.

  7. Ibid.

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