Repulse: Europe at War 2062-2064 (34 page)

Page 182
: ‘We all knew…’ Bell,
interview in The Washington Post, 31 August 2064
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Page 183
: ‘Those were the…’ Morton,
interview with the author, 17 May 2096
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Page 184
: ‘Probably the most…’ Fisher, 10/13, p. 178,
Hackett Press, Washington, 2068
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Page 185
: ‘Quickly I realised…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 431,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 187
: ‘The stress kept…’ Knowles,
interview with the author, 4 June 2096
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Page 187
: ‘We have to deal…’ Weston,
personal correspondence, 12 January 2063
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Page 188
: ‘I still didn’t…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 444,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 189
: ‘Why do we…’ Robinson,
multiple media outlets, 26 January 2063
.

Page 190
: ‘Cultural, social and…’
English government
memo ETG/043/IR/67310233, 31 January 2063
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Operation Repulse: Preparation

Page 193
: ‘My senses came…’ Pratt,
interview with the author, 4 March 2096
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Page 194
: ‘There’s no shortage…’ Clr. Sgt. Benson,
Recruitment Report #778/B, North-East England, 23 March 2063
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Page 194
: ‘I joined the…’ Sgt. Bolton,
interview with the author, 8 March 2096
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Page 195
: ‘The endless grey…’ Anderson, A Blade of Grass in the Storm, p. 37,
Hodgson & Davis, New York, 2068
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Page 196
: ‘They say that…’ Booth,
unpublished diary, 5 April 2063
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Page 197
: ‘…the first day…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 478,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 199
: ‘I believe we…’ Reyer,
interview in The Economist, March 2072
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Page 198
: ‘The problem with…’ Baker,
interview with the author, 13 June 2096
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Page 199
: ‘They’re assigning variant…’ Ford,
personal correspondence, 23 April 2063
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Page 200
: ‘Maybe we’d all…’ Gen. Pearce,
US Congressional hearings, Washington, 13 August 2067
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Page 200
: ‘I told Perkins…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 497,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 200
: ‘The fact that…’ Perkins, Are the Ghosts Real? p. 99,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2073
.

Page 201
: ‘I’ve told the…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 4 May 2063
.

Page 202
: ‘I was nonplussed…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, pp. 501-512,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 203
: ‘Hastings was in…’ FM Tidbury,
ibid
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Page 204
: ‘Hastings then popped…’ FM Tidbury,
ibid
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Page 205
: ‘I don’t think…’ Rattenburg,
interview in The Mail, 14 May 2063
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Page 206
: ‘The first explosion…’ Bishop,
interview with the author, 2 August 2096
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Page 208
: ‘There is an…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 7,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 210
: ‘I tried to…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, pp. 519-526,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 210
: ‘I thought the…’ FM Tidbury,
ibid
.

Page 211
: ‘The Caliphate warrior…’ Morrow, The Great European Disaster, Vol. 2, p. 148,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2074
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Page 211
: ‘I got an…’ Shah,
interview with the author, 11 September 2096
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Page 212
: ‘I took the…’ Graham,
personal correspondence, 4 June 2063
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Page 212
: ‘None of the…’ Elliot,
interview in The Guardian, 4 June 2068
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Page 214
: ‘…very positive.  Obviously...’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 556,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 214
: ‘Seriously?  They propose…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 11 June 2063
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Page 215
: ‘We’ve been having…’ Pte. Young,
personal correspondence, 14 June 2063
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Page 215
: ‘You didn’t need…’ M. Sgt. Hussain,
interview with the author, 15 July 2096
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Page 215
: ‘Of course you…’ Pte. Mathews,
interview in The Mail, 16 June 2063
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Page 216
: ‘Two hundred years…’ Pte. Brown,
personal correspondence, 5 June 2063
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Page 216
: ‘As the clock…’ Gen. Forster, An Army for Europe, p. 45,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2067
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Page 217
: ‘We had super…’ Perkins, Are the Ghosts Real? p. 156,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2073
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Page 217
: ‘Does the Third…’
The Washington Post, 16 July 2063
.

Page 218
: ‘I really could…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 556,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 218
: ‘We had a…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 18 July 2063
.

Page 219
: ‘The Field Marshall…’ Capt. Dixon, Sightseeing in Tazirbu, p. 46,
Dunford, Trout and Haslam, London, 2069
.

Operation Repulse: Execution

Page 221
: ‘Updates flashed over…’ Hayes,
interview with the author, 13 June 2096
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Page 222
: ‘We didn’t sleep…’ Pte. O’Bryan,
interview with the author, 2 July 2096
.

Page 223
: ‘Séverin saved my…’ Capt. Bélanger,
interview with the author, 14 July 2096
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Page 224
: ‘The X-9 rapidly…’ Pte. Bevan,
personal correspondence, 2 August 2063
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Page 224
: ‘It sure was…’ Sgt. Kepley,
multiple media outlets, 2 August 2063
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Page 224
: ‘The numbers are…’ Maj. Basel,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/2240059/C, 1 August 2063
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Page 225
: ‘We’re clearing streets…’ Pte. Khan,
multiple media outlets, 2 August 2063
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Page 226
: ‘The whole port…’ Capt. Wood,
multiple media outlets, 2 August 2063
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Page 227
: ‘My Squitch lit…’ Pte. Davis,
Squitch battlefield recording, 1 August 2063
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Page 228
: ‘…the sheer spectacle…’ Cpl. Pletcher,
interview with the author, 28 April 2096
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Page 229
: ‘We landed in…’ Allen,
English Parliamentary Select Committee hearing, 23 October 2066
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Page 230
: ‘As data feeds…’ Maj. Basel,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/2240060/E, 1 August 2063
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Page 231
: ‘Most of the…’ Pte. Davis,
multiple media outlets, 2 August 2063
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Page 231
: ‘The building itself…’
The Times, 4 August 2063
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Page 232
: ‘How strange it…’ Seromba,
The Rwanda New Times, p. 4, 6 August 2063
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Page 233
: ‘We felt confident…’ Capt. Oberst,
interview with the author, 24 April 2096
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Page 234
: ‘…my Squitch told…’ Pte. Parker,
personal correspondence, 5 August 2063
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Page 235
: ‘After softening them…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, pp. 589-601,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 235
: ‘The Air Chief…’ FM Tidbury,
ibid
.

Page 236
: ‘I fancied the…’ Capt. Dixon, Sightseeing in Tazirbu, pp. 72-134,
Dunford, Trout and Haslam, London, 2069
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Page 236
: ‘On one hand…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page 237
: ‘It was remarkable…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page 238
: ‘It was when…’ ‘Soldier L’,
English Parliamentary Select Committee hearings, 29-31 October 2066
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Page 238
: ‘The resistance only…’ ‘Soldier L’,
ibid
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Page 238
: ‘…a series of…’ ‘Soldier L’,
ibid
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Page 239
: ‘We called a…’ ‘Soldier L’,
ibid
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Page 239
: ‘The enemy had…’ Hein,
English Parliamentary Select Committee hearing, 3 November 2066
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Page 240
: ‘That evening became…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 611,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 240
: ‘It is important…’ Tasse, A History of Warfare in the 21st Century, p. 273,
Lee and Lifeson, Paris, 2094
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Page 242
: ‘By this stage…’ Cpl. Butler,
multiple media outlets, 7 August 2063
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Page 243
: ‘The SkyMasters began…’ Cpl. Butler,
ibid
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Page 244
: ‘This is one-dimensional…’ Pte. Reeves,
Squitch battlefield recording, 6 August 2063
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Page 244
: ‘The General didn’t…’ Pte. Sullivan,
interview with the author, 27 May 2096
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Page 245
: ‘Such had the…’ Tasse, A History of Warfare in the 21st Century, p. 289,
Lee and Lifeson, Paris, 2094
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Page 245
: ‘The ACA battle…’ Pte. Lowe,
interview in The Times, 21 August 2063
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Page 246
: ‘The forested areas…’ Pte. Lowe,
ibid
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Page 246
: ‘We’d spotted some…’ Capt. Harding,
interview in The Guardian, 20 August 2063
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Page 248
: ‘Perkins spoke sound…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 627,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
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Page 248
: ‘We had to…’ Capt. Dixon, Sightseeing in Tazirbu, pp. 151-223,
Dunford, Trout and Haslam, London, 2069
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Page 248
: ‘The most important…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page 249
: ‘Palmer whispered to…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page 250
: ‘Abruptly there came…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page 251
: ‘Both Palmer and…’ Capt. Dixon,
ibid
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Page []: ‘You could cut…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 7 August 2063
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Page 252
: ‘…consider whether God…’ Pedro,
multiple media outlets, 8 August 2063
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Page 253
: ‘Every autumn I…’ Petit,
multiple media outlets, 15 August 2063
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Page 253
: ‘The summer heat…’ Berger,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/2743360/A, 17 August 2063
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Page 254
: ‘We wait for…’ Lieut. Selby,
multiple media outlets, 18 August 2063
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Page 256
: ‘I nearly lost…’ Trump,
personal correspondence, 19 August 2063
.

Page 256
: ‘You won’t believe…’
intercepted correspondence, 20 August 2063
.

Page 258
: ‘We had to…’ Cpl. O’Bryan,
interview with the author, 2 June 2096
.

Page 259
: ‘Signals’ emissions were…’ Green,
interview in The Times, 21 August 2063
.

Page 259
: ‘Some of the…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 633,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 260
: ‘…the Abrahams all…’ Pte. Selt,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/3541376/C, 3 September 2063
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Page 261
: ‘…the “Hitler Option”…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 635,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 261
: ‘Our “honeymoon” period…’ Gen. Fox
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/3653222/C, 9 September 2063
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Page 262
: ‘The captain was…’ Pte. Behrend,
interview with the author, 14 June 2096
.

Page 263
: ‘One: influential elements…’ Jones,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/3749978/B, 2 October 2063
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Page 264
: ‘…believes contingency plans…’
English government
memo ETG/045/IR/00230691, 2 October 2063
.

Page 265
: ‘Physicality was always…’ Chambers,
interview with the author, 31 July 2096
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Page 266
: ‘General Pakla understandably…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 627,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 267
: ‘Before they got…’ Cpl. Breece,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/4175508/D, 14 October 2063
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Page 268
: ‘We knew at…’ Cpl. Breece,
ibid
.

Page 268
: ‘Our Squitches were…’ Pte. Collins,
personal correspondence, 14 October 2063
.

Page 270
: ‘That third week…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 631,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 271
: ‘The Omega really…’ Cpl. Breece,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/4499340/A, 3 November 2063
.

Page 271
: ‘There is a…’ Maj. Basel,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/4499477/A, 4 November 2063
.

Page 272
: ‘Nearly each ruined…’ Morrow, The Great European Disaster, Vol. 2, p. 429,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2074
.

Page 272
: ‘So far it’s…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 8 November 2063
.

Page 273
: ‘Emotions ran high…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 643,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 275
: ‘Conditions on the…’ Gen. Pakla,
Repulse progress report #NATO/WCD/4869691/C, 29 November 2063
.

Page 276
: ‘All of the…’ Pte. Ornass,
unpublished memoirs, 2 December 2063
.

Page 277
: ‘We were pissed…’ Pte. Stevenson,
personal correspondence, 12 December 2063
.

Page 277
: ‘We were very…’ A.B. Higgins,
personal correspondence, 12 January 2064
.

Page 278
: ‘They patrolled high…’ Jameson,
multiple media outlets, 18 December 2063
.

Page 281
: ‘It was only…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 661,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 282
: ‘The boss is…’ Webb,
unpublished diary, 19 January 2064
.

Page 282
: ‘On the one…’ FM Tidbury, In the Eye of the Storm, p. 663,
Banks and Rutherford, Cambridge, 2069
.

Page 283
: ‘When Turkey did…’ Tasse, A History of Warfare in the 21st Century, p. 298,
Lee and Lifeson, Paris, 2094
.

Operation Repulse: Aftermath

Page 285
: ‘Suddenly faced with…’ Whittaker, Asian Conflagration, p. 78,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2072
.

Page 287
: ‘…surveying the ruins…’ Morrow, The Great European Disaster, Vol. 3, p. 127,
Collins & Gabriel, Oxford, 2074
.

Page 288
: ‘I have had…’ Kartal,
unpublished journal, 25 August 2064
.

Page 289
: ‘After World War…’ Wojsik,
Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 May 2067
.

Page 289
: ‘So why did…’ Arnold,
multiple media outlets, 25 May 2067
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