Overlord (Pan Military Classics) (66 page)

Ambrose, Stephen –
The Supreme Commander
, New York, 1970.

Aron, Robert –
De Gaulle Before Paris
, New York, 1962;
De Gaulle Triumphant
, New York, 1964.

Batchelor & Hogg –
Artillery
, New York, 1973.

Belchem, David –
All in a Day’s March
, London, 1967.

——,
Victory in Normandy
, London, 1981.

Bennett, Ralph –
Ultra in the West
, London, 1979.

Blumenson, Martin –
Breakout and Pursuit
, Washington, 1961.

Bradley, Omar –
A Soldier’s Story
, London, 1952

——,
A General’s Life
, New York, 1982.

Bryant, Arthur –
The Turn of the Tide
, London, 1957

——,
Triumph in the West
, London, 1959.

Butcher, Captain H. C. –
My Three Years with Eisenhower
, London, 1946.

Butler, J. R. M., & Gwyer, M. A. –
Grand Stategy
, vol. iii, London, 1964.

Carell, Paul –
Invasion – They’re Coming
, London, 1962.

Chalfont, Alun –
Montgomery of Alamein
, London, 1976.

Churchill, Winston –
Triumph and Tragedy
, London, 1954.

Collins, J. Lawton –
Lightning Joe
, Louisiana, 1979.

Cooper, Matthew –
The German Army: Its Political and Military Failure
, London, 1978.

Craven & Cate –
The U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II
, Chicago, 1951.

Cruikshank, Charles –
Deception in World War II
, Oxford, 1979.

De Guingand, Frederick –
Operation Victory
, London, 1960.

D’Este, Carlo –
Decision in Normandy
, London, 1983.

Dunn, Walter Scott –
Second Front Now – 1943
, Alabama, 1980.

Dupuy, Colonel T. N. –
A Genius for War
, London, 1977.

Ehreman, John –
Grand Strategy
, vol. v, London, 1956.

Eisenhower, Dwight –
Crusade in Europe
, New York, 1948.

——,
Papers
, vol. iii, Baltimore, 1970.

Ellis, Major L. F. –
Victory in the West
, vol. i, London, 1962.

Farago, Ladislas –
Patton: Ordeal and Triumph
, New York, 1963.

Farrar-Hockley, Anthony –
Infantry Tactics 1939–45
, London, 1976.

Fergusson, Bernard –
The Black Watch and The King’s Enemies
, London, 1950.

——,
The Watery Maze
, London, 1961.

Foot, M. R. D. –
SOE in France
, London, 1966.

Fraser, Sir David –
And We Shall Shock Them
, London, 1983.

——,
Alanbrooke
, London, 1982.

Gavin, James –
On To Berlin
, London, 1978.

Golley, John –
The Big Drop
, London, 1982.

Gosset & Lecomte –
Caen pendant la Bataille
, Caen, 1946.

Greenfield, Palmer & Wiley –
The US Army in World War II: The Organization of Ground Combat Troops
, Washington, 1946.

Grigg, John – 1943:
The Victory That Never Was
, London, 1980.

Guderian, Heinz –
Panzer Leader
, London, 1952.

Hamilton, Nigel –
Montgomery: The Making of a General
, London, 1981.

——,
Montgomery: Master of a Battlefield
, London, 1983.

Harrison, Gordon –
Cross Channel Attack
, Washington, 1951.

Hastings, Max –
Bomber Command
, London, 1979.

——,
Das Reich
, London, 1982.

Haswell, J.
The Intelligence and Deception of the D-Day Landings
, London, 1979.

Hinsley, Prof. F. H. & others –
British Intelligence in the Second World War
, vol. ii, London, 1981.

How, J. J. –
Normandy: The British Breakout
, London, 1981.

Howard, Michael –
Grand Strategy
, vol. iv, London, 1972.

Howarth, David –
Dawn of D-Day
, London, 1959.

Irving, David –
Hitler’s War
, London & New York, 1979.

——,
The Trail of the Fox
, London & New York, 1977.

——,
The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe
, Boston, 1973.

Ismay, Lord –
Memoirs
, London, 1960.

Joly, Cyril –
Take These Men
, London, 1955.

Jonson, G., & Dunphie, C. –
Brightly Shone the Dawn
, London, 1980.

Keegan, John –
Six Armies in Normandy
, London, 1982.

Kohn & Harahan (eds) –
Air Superiority in World War II and Korea
, Washington, 1983.

Lamb, Richard –
Montgomery in Europe
, London, 1983.

Lane, Ronald L. –
Rudder’s Rangers
, Manassas, 1979.

Lewin, Ronald –
Montgomery as Military Commander
, London, 1971.

——,
Ultra Goes to War
, London, 1978.

Liddell Hart, Basil –
The Other Side of the Hill
, London, 1951.

——,
The Second World War
, London, 1970.

Lovat, Lord –
March Past
, London, 1978.

Lucas, J., & Barker, J.
The Killing Ground
, London, 1978.

Macksey, Kenneth –
Armoured Crusader
, London, 1967.

Maule, Henry –
Caen: The Brutal Battle and the Break-out from Normandy
, London, 1976.

Marshall, S. L. A. –
Night Drop
, London, 1962.

McBryde, Brenda –
A Nurse’s War
, London, 1979.

McKee, Alexander –
Caen, Anvil of Victory
, London, 1964.

Montgomery, Earl –
The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery
, London, 1958.

——,
Normandy to the Baltic
, London, 1947.

Moorehead, Alan –
Montgomery
, London, 1947.

Morgan, F. E. –
Overture to Overlord
, London, 1950.

Nelson –
Second Front Now – 1943
, Alabama, 1980.

Palmer, Wiley & Keast –
The U.S. Army in World War II: The Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops
, Washington, 1948.

Patton, George S. –
War as I Knew it
, Boston, 1947.

Pogue, Forrest C –
George C. Marshall
, vols ii & iii, New York, 1965, 1973.

Roach, Peter –
The 8.15 to War
, London, 1982.

Rohmer, Richard –
Patton’s Gap
, London, 1981.

Ross, George MacLeod –
The Business of Tanks
, London (privately printed), 1976.

Ruge, Frederich –
Rommel in Normandy
, London, 1979.

Ruppenthal, Ronald G. –
The U.S. Army In World War II: Logistical Support of the Armies
, Washington, 1966.

Ryan, Cornelius –
The Longest Day
, London & New York, 1959.

Scarfe, Norman –
Assault Division
, London, 1947.

Scott, Desmond –
Typhoon Pilot
, London, 1982.

Seaton, Albert –
The Fall of Fortress Europe 1943–45
, London, 1981.

——,
The German Army
, London, 1982.

Shulman, Milton –
Defeat in the West
, London, 1948.

Speidel, Hans –
We Defended Normandy
, London, 1951.

Stacey, C. P. –
The Canadian Army in the Second World War
, vol. iii, Ottawa, 1960.

Strong, Kenneth –
Intelligence at the Top
, London, 1968.

Tedder, Lord –
With Prejudice
, London, 1966.

Van Creveld, Martin –
Supplying War
, London, 1978.

——,
Fighting Power: German Military Performance 1914–45
, Washington, 1980.

Warlimont, Walter –
Inside Hitler’s Headquarters
, London, 1962.

Webster & Frankland –
The Strategic Air Offensive Against Germany
, vol. iii, London, 1961.

Weigley, Russell F. –
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants
, London & New York, 1980. Weller, Jac –
Weapons and Tactics: Hastings to Berlin
, New York, 1966.

West, Nigel –
M16: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909–45
, London, 1983.

Westphal, S. –
The German Army in the West
, London, 1951.

Wilmot, Chester –
The Struggle for Europe
, London, 1952.

Wilson, Andrew –
Flamethrower
, London, 1974.

Woollcombe, Robert –
Lion Rampant
, London, 1970.

1
 
Lessons of Normandy
, Liddell Hart; essay in LH papers, King’s College, London

1
 This narrative is based entirely upon an interview with Lt-Col. John Warner, 16.vi.83

1
 Fraser,
Alanbrooke
, p. 397

2
 Bryant,
Triumph in the West
, p. 205

3
 Howard,
Grand Strategy
, vol. iv, p. 252

4
 Harrison,
Cross Channel Attack
, p. 10

5
 Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, vol. v, p. 108

6
 
Ibid
., p. 109

7
 
Ibid
., pp. 109
et seq
.

8
 US CoS papers, ABC 384, Europe: 5.viii.43

9
 Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, p. 43

10
 Portal Papers, Christchurch College, Oxford, File 2, 2g

11
 Howard (op. cit.), p. 249

12
 For instance, see Grigg, 1943:
The Victory that Never Was
; Walter Scott Dunn,
Second Front Now – 1943

13
 See Nigel Nicolson,
Alexander
, p. 211

14
 Bryant (op. cit.), p. 160

15
 Public Record Office WO205/33

16
 PRO WO205/2

17
 
Ibid
.

18
 
Ibid
.

19
 PRO WO205/33

20
 
Ibid
.

21
 Fraser (op. cit.), p. 421

22
 Eisenhower, diary

23
 For an extreme example, see Irving,
The War Between the Generals
(London, 1981), which highlights the squabbles within the Allied high command and the personal vices of its commanders to a degree which obscures the extraordinary co-operation on the military issues that mattered.

24
 Eisenhower, diary

C
OMMANDERS

1
 Omar Bradley,
A Soldier’s Story
, p. 171

2
 
Ibid
., p. 176

3
 Interview with the author, vi.83

4
 Ronald Lewin,
Wavell: The Chief
(London, 1980)

5
 Russell Weigley,
Eisenhower’s Lieutenants
, p. 37

6
 Quoted in Hamilton,
Montgomery: Master of the Battlefield
, p. 513

7
 Palmer, Wiley & Keast,
Procurement and Training of Ground Combat Troops
, p. 258

8
 Ehrman,
Grand Strategy
, p. 50

9
 PRO WO205/118

10
 Williams, interview with the author, 14.vi.83

11
 PRO WO205/118

12
 
Ibid
.

13
 Interview with the author

14
 PRO WO232/1

15
 Some special forces, above all the US Rangers and the French SAS parachuted into Brittany, made a notable contribution on D-Day and in the weeks that followed. But their story has been repeated so often in earlier narratives of OVERLORD that it seems redundant to retrace the story in detail here.

16
 Quoted in Hamilton (op. cit.), pp. 562
et seq
.

17
 
Ibid
.

18
 See Aron,
De Gaulle Before Paris
; François Kersaudy,
Churchill and De Gaulle
(London, 1981). None of the parties concerned emerge with great credit from the pre-D-Day struggle concerning the future administration of liberated France, the Americans showing extraordinary insensitivity by their determination to treat her as if she were bankrupt stock purchased in blood from some global liquidator, rather than one of the great nations of the world.