All Hell Let Loose (118 page)

‘very interesting to’ Hagen p.169

‘All on board felt’ Commandant Bazoche Operational Report quoted Tute p.206

‘I must record reality’
Generazione ribelle: Diari e lettere dal 1943 al 1945 a cura di Mario Avagliano
Einaudi Storia 2006 p.77

‘I feel that his’ Anne-Marie Walters
Moondrop to Gascony
MPG Books 2009 p.233

‘He will not have’ Peter Kemp
The Thorns of Memory
Sinclair-Stevenson 1990 p.196

‘As time went on’ ibid. p.200

‘We thought perhaps’ Killingray p.61

‘When we heard about’ ibid. p.59

‘Sinclair … had the list’ ibid. p.50

‘
Sole, sole, sole
’ ibid. p.160

‘Our boss was involved’ ibid. p.54

‘powerful juju’ ibid. p.86

‘A further twenty-four’ ibid. p.122

‘In India, segregated’ ibid. p.109

‘we were lucky’ ibid. pp.134–5

‘Poor Corporal Atang’ ibid. p.172

‘a white man’s war’ Christopher Somerville
Our War
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1998 p.183

‘There’s a war going’ ibid. p.29

‘A nasty evening’ Richard Hough
One Boy’s War
Heinemann 1975 p.17

‘In August 1942’
Public Opinion
p.86

‘Our enemy was primarily’ Anwar Sadat
In Search of Identity
Collins 1978 p.26

‘We are a group’ ibid. p.25

‘Although his reason’ Edgar Snow
Journey to the Beginning
Gollancz 1959 p.206

‘It [is] obvious’
Works of Nehru
Vol. XII p.39 25.12.42

‘We couldn’t help’ Smith
Singapore Burning
p.57

‘I could see no particular’ Cooper
Trumpets
p.131

‘I have always cherished’ Bayly & Harper p.343

2
THE RAJ: UNFINEST HOUR

‘that it was monstrous’ Amery p.104

‘Veer Damodar Savarkar’ Jayakar Papers 709 1940 National Archives of India

‘The present is not’
Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India 1940
pt.1 OUP 1978

‘I am now in the army’ Bayly & Harper p.74

‘Yet every nation’
Statesman
10.6.40

‘In the summer of 1940’
Works of Nehru
Vol. XIII p.59 13.2.43

‘there is no question’ ibid. Vol. XII p.2

‘There is a large’ Linlithgow quoted Madhusree Mukerjee
Churchill’s Secret War
Basic 2010 p.63

‘an exhilarating departure’ Bayly & Harper p.248

‘Those bloody idiots’ Clive Branson
British Soldier in India: The Letters of Clive Branson
Communist Party London 1944 pp.87 & 134

‘in the eyes of Mahatma Gandhi’ Bayly & Harper p.303

‘venereal disease-ridden’ ibid. p.448

‘when there is tragedy’
Selected Works of Nehru
Vol. XIII p.19 3.10.42

‘provisional Indian government’ Bayly & Harper p.322

‘After being captured’ Thompson
Burma
p.254

‘I am not a doll’ ibid. p.326

‘I did not believe that’ ibid. p.327

‘We could not afford’ Mukerjee p.282

‘There I saw nearly’ ibid.

‘We come home to’ ibid. p.286

‘A concession to one’ ibid. p.103

‘There is no reason’ ibid. p.117

‘In Sapurapota village’ ibid. pp.154, 167 & 151

‘rickety babies’ ibid. p.287

‘reports from Bengal’
Works of Nehru
Vol. XIII p.242

‘Cabinet … [Winston] talked’ John Barnes & David Nicholson eds
The Empire at Bay: The Leo Amery Diaries 1929–45
Hutchinson 1988 p.1026 21.1.45

Chapter 17 – Asian Fronts

1
CHINA

‘In her great effort’ Edgar Snow
Saturday Evening Post
June 1936

‘Local people were much’ Jonathan Fenby
Generalissimo
Free Press 2003 p.315

‘The Japanese were the only’ Jeffrey Lockwood
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War
Oxford 2009 p.108 & passim

‘That the Japanese attempted’ Daniel Barenblatt
A Plague Upon Humanity
Souvenir 2004

‘One of them was’ AI Lin Yajin
Nemesis
files

‘he told me I was’ AI Deng Yumin
Nemesis
files

‘Terrible things were done’ AI Hando,
Nemesis
files

‘America & Britain had been’ Bayly & Harper p.2

2
JUNGLE-BASHING AND ISLAND-HOPPING

‘in Japan the infantryman’ Bayly & Harper p.274

‘I am far from satisfied’ Marshall Papers Box 64/27

‘a gigantic system’ Hugh Dalton
Diaries
ed. Ben Pimlott Jonathan Cape 1986 4.8.44

‘Neither I nor my Gurkha’ Thompson
Forgotten Voices of Burma
p.71

‘I had a wounded Gurkha’ ibid. p.83

‘The newspapers back in India’ ibid. p.107

‘It was lined with amphtracs’ Karl Albrecht
Tarawa Remembered
in
Follow Me
November 1993 p.28

‘The water never seemed’ Miller p.105

‘Though Roosevelt and his’
Public Opinion
p.263

Chapter 18 – Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits

1
SICILY

‘How is victory possible’ Evelyn Waugh
Diaries
p.559

‘Everywhere the British’ Marshall Papers Box 64/27

‘A marked change’ Origo p.55

‘We surrender’ Carlo D’Este
Bitter Victory
Collins 1988 p.244

‘In my opinion’ Poppel p.123

‘The Tommies obviously’ ibid. p.130

‘You have to hand’ ibid. p.133

‘in a mood of fiesta’ Rick Atkinson
Day of Battle
Henry Holt 2007 p.115

‘A queer race’ Peter Schrijvers
The Crash of Ruin
New York University Press 1998 p.120

‘This is
not
’ Atkinson p.127

‘plodding along’ David Cole
Rough Road to Rome
Kimber 1983 pp.443–4

‘The Italians virtually never’ D’Este
Bitter Victory
p.439

‘A ghostly old woman’ Jack Belden,
Time
magazine 23.8.43

‘The end is now’ Klemperer Vol. II p.303

‘We don’t really’ ibid. p.349

‘With more grit’ Hagen p.74

‘We hoped and hoped’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.73

‘The Germans have undoubtedly’ Wigram’s report, a penetrating analysis of British tactical shortcomings which seems valid for the entire 1943–45 period, is printed as an appendix in Denis Forman
To Reason Why
André Deutsch 1991 pp.197–204

2
THE ROAD TO ROME

‘In the belief that’ Lewis p.17

‘Shells whined swiftly’ Michael Howard
Captain Professor
Continuum 2004 p.73

‘During the night’ Peter Moore
No Need to Worry
Wilton 65 2002 p.109

‘Here we got our first’ Hagen p.75

‘If the “liberation”’ Origo p.101 20.10.43

‘Italy would break’ Atkinson p.251

‘Great excavations in’ John Guest
Broken Images
Hart Davis 1949 p.199

‘I hate to disillusion’ Mowat p.137

‘Our boys aren’t’ Atkinson p.258

‘climbing a ladder’ Richard Doherty
A Noble Crusade
Rockville New York 1999 p.159

‘I wish the people’ George Biddle
Artist at War
New York 1944 p.177

‘under a hail of fire’ D.C. Bloomfield-Smith ed.
Fourth Indian Reflections
Larman 1987 p.59

‘The leading companies’ ibid. p.56

‘I feel that much’ Franco Busatti
Dal Volturno a Cassino
RSI website

‘Wouldn’t this be’ Atkinson pp.288–9

‘I would like’ ibid. p.293

‘It is … necessary’ Origo p.23 1.4.43

‘I won’t fight on’ ibid. p.97

‘Half Italy is’
Generazione ribelle
p.25 8.9.43

‘leader of a people’ Eugenio Corti
The Last Soldiers of the King
University of Missouri Press 2003 p.108

‘We are poor wretches’
Generazione ribelle
p.48

‘All the children were’ Mafai p.211

‘Whenever they take’ Lewis pp.143–4

‘A woman’s head appeared’ Bloomfield-Smith p.50

‘Now it turns out’ Mowat p.187

‘I’ll be alive’ Alex Bowlby
Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby
Leo Cooper 1969 p.127

‘Shooting in the early days’ LHA Penney Papers 8/33

‘The peasants read these’ Origo p.186 21.5.44

‘Please – wouldn’t the children’ ibid. p.198

‘the Goums have completed’ ibid. p.236 1.7.44

3
YUGOSLAVIA

‘Many had never’ Milovan Djilas
Wartime
Secker & Warburg 1980 p.309

‘The country was very’ Roderick Bailey ed.
Forgotten Voices of the Secret War
Ebury 2008 p.160

‘Macedonia, which was’ Dimitris Livanios
The Macedonian Question
Oxford 2008 p.119

‘The army of Mihailovic’ Bailey p.169

‘Sometimes [the Chetniks] would’ ibid. p.171

‘Unfortunately the Chetniks’ ibid. p.167

‘Look what you have’ Djilas p.236

‘Covered with orchards’ ibid. p.139

‘Though quite a few’ ibid. pp.155 & 160

‘You are fighting for’ ibid. p.170

‘All the villages’ ibid. p.180

‘It would be immoral’ ibid. p.197

‘they couldn’t be told’ ibid. p.304

‘After we had’
Diario di Guerra: Con gli Alpini in Montenegro 1941–1943
pub. Mursia 2010.p.15

‘We know, but there’s’ Djilas p.330

‘Why were doctors’ ibid. p.285

‘he survived the war’ ibid. p.283

Chapter 19 – War in the Sky

1
BOMBERS

‘I saw myself as’ E.P. Bone unpublished MS,
Bomber Command
files

‘I experience an exhilaration’ Wellum p.105

‘I would not trade’ AI Dorfman,
Armageddon
files

‘We had all the glory’ AI Wells,
Armageddon
files

‘I have never spoken’ Day-Lewis p.81

‘Perhaps a quarter’ AI Owen,
Bomber Command
files

‘With the start the Germans’ AI Addison,
Bomber Command
files

‘[A] vital lesson’ Alexander Seversky
Victory Thru Air Power
New York 1942 p.73

‘In the second half’ see Williamson Murray
Luftwaffe
Allen & Unwin 1985
passim
.

‘We learned very early’ Wooldridge p.196

‘A man approached death’ Ernie Pyle
V was for Victory
New York 1945 p.61

‘You were resigned’ AI Bufton
Bomber Command
files

‘I woke up!’
Bomber Command
correspondence

‘The briefings were very’ AI Owen,
Bomber Command
files

‘In their efforts to’ Hastings
Bomber Command
p.104

‘Winston’s attitude to’ AI Harris,
Bomber Command
files

‘We could have kept’ AI Brennan
Armageddon
files

‘If you had losses’ AI Maze,
Bomber Command
files

‘Good bods Pyatt, Donner’ Bone MS

‘We learned to live’ John Muirhead
Those Who Fall
Random House 1986 p.4

‘When I asked him’ Cochrane MS, Cochrane papers

‘The wounds were superficial’ Crafter MS
Bomber Command
files

‘Thirty sorties in’ Cochrane MS

‘I clearly remember’ Raynes MS
Bomber Command
files

‘You joked about’ AI Owen

‘When a plane blew up’ Harry H. Crosby
A Wing and a Prayer
Robson 1993 p.95

2
TARGETS

‘supported as he was’ USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan quoted Pogue
The Supreme Command
files

‘The Möhne was breached’ John Sweetman
The Dambusters Raid
Arms & Armour 1993
passim
. This is the most authoritative account of the mission.

‘We were told the British’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.72

‘Adam Tooze has made’ Tooze p.556 and
passim

‘Adam Tooze believes’ ibid. p.603

‘These raids on’
Bomber Command
files

‘Hundreds of flak guns’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.391

‘Our Führer ought’ ibid. p.382

‘often feeling that’ ibid. p.453

‘These elements cannot’ Tooze pp.629–30

‘The white stripes moved’ Potsdam Vol. IX/1 p.390

‘They were torn from’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.75

‘At the front of the room’ ibid. p.427