All Hell Let Loose (117 page)

‘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

Chapter 16 – Divided Empires

1
WHOSE LIBERTY?

‘The cost in men’ Nicholas Monsarrat in his autobiographical novel
The Cruel Sea
Cassell 1951 pp.151–2

‘My father was able’ Tom Bower
Nazi Gold
HarperCollins 1997 p.13

‘gigantic sums’ ibid. p.58

‘irrelevant under Swiss law’ ibid. p.111

‘A January 1944 opinion survey’ USNA State Department Opinion Surveys RG59 Box 11

‘had a very vague’ Fyodor Mochulsky
Gulag Boss
Oxford 2010 p.141

‘The Japs live like’ Blum p.160

‘It was a very white’ Capano MS
Armageddon
files

‘The danger lies not’ Blum p.92

‘as the Roman legions’ ibid. p.149

‘If we send you’ AI Carullo,
Armageddon
files

‘Sergeant Henry Kissinger’ AI Kissinger
Armageddon
files