All Hell Let Loose (115 page)

‘The Australians regarded’ John McManners
Fusilier
Michael Russell 2002 p.67

‘I came to realise’ Arthur p.153

‘The flies plague us’ Smith & Bierman p.32

‘Even the climate’ Ostellino p.96 5.8.41

‘We … slowly make ourselves’ Smith & Bierman p.134

‘Smooth yellow sand’ Alastair Borthwick
Battalion
Baton Wicks 1994 p.39

‘The chief occupation’ McManners p.46

‘You would think it’ Ostellino p.54 14.3.41

‘The unreality had’ Artemis Cooper
Cairo in the War
Hamish Hamilton 1989 p.80

‘Sweat shining, hair bleached’ ibid. p.117

‘Groppi’s at Cairo’ McManners p.85

‘not because of’ Vittorio Vallicella
Diario di Guerra da El Alamein alla tragica ritirata 1942–1943
Edizioni Arterigere 2009 p.22

‘How many times’ ibid. p.76

‘Italian soldiers resented’ ibid. p.59

‘after nearly twenty’ ibid. p.62

‘For those lucky enough’ ibid. p.70

‘When Vallicella caught’ ibid. p.65

‘about the hell’ ibid. p.85

‘I had the pleasant surprise’ Ostellino p.143 11.12.41

‘We could never fire’ J. Cloudsley-Thompson unpublished MS

‘What a shock to find’ Vallicella p.16

‘Exploring the town’ ibid. p.20

‘Some Arabs found’ ibid. p.17

‘Even here our allies’ ibid. p.18

‘We hope this nightmare’ ibid. p.19

‘The order came’ McManners pp.101 & 108

Chapter 6 –
Barbarossa

‘We were all expecting’ Catherine Merridale
Ivan’s War
Faber 2005 p.77

‘Kuznetsov informed me’ ibid. p.75

‘Many, perhaps most’ Howard
Liberation
p.9

‘The situation is ideal’ Knoke p.47

‘I accepted as natural’ Henry Metelmann
Through Hell for Hitler
Spellmount 1990 pp.15 & 24

‘Now you see how far’ Potsdam Vol. IV p.341

‘God knows, you are not’ Tooze p.546

‘The war with Russia’ Michael Jones
The Retreat: Hitler’s First Defeat
John Murray 2009 p.23

‘You can tell your “source”’ Bellamy p.147

‘the war will begin’ Sebastian p.368

‘We must win’ Goebbels
Diaries
23.6.41

‘It may so happen’ Valentin Berezhkov
Stranitsy diplomaticheskoy istorii
Moscow 1982 pp.69 & 212

‘We were uncritically’ Martin Poppel
Heaven & Hell
Spellmount 1988 p.11

‘Our destination is Russia’ ibid. p.70

‘These days bogs’ Bellamy p.197

‘As there seemed’ IWM Kurylak MS

‘I never shot as well’ Knoke p.45

‘All of a sudden’ Jones
Retreat
p.1

‘There were hundreds’ ibid. p.7

‘For the Motherland’ Merridale p.69

‘We were following Napoleon’s’ Jones
Retreat
p.6

‘The pitiful hordes’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.545

‘We launch wonderful attacks’ ibid. p.546

‘some even crawling’ Jones
Retreat
p.10

‘When the commentator’ ibid. p.55

‘So now Russia will get’ Clare Milburn
Mrs Milburn’s Diaries
Harrap 1979 p.101

‘Have they entered Moscow?’ Sebastian p.374

‘The war against these’ Jones
Retreat
p.18

‘I am repeatedly’ ibid. p.14

‘Eyes had been’ Bellamy p.189

‘missed the German offensive’ ibid. p.232

‘They are crying’ Vasily Grossman
A Writer at War
ed. Lyuba Vinogradova & Antony Beevor Harvill 2006 p.23

‘We were surprised’ Roderic Braithwaite
Moscow 1941
Profile 2006 p.80

‘What am I to say’ Moskvin quoted
Pis’ma s voiny
Ioshkar-Ola 1995 p.87

‘some in trucks’ Gabriel Temkin
My Just War
Presidio 1998 p.60

‘Especially those wounded’ Grossman p.19

‘the Russian genius’ Bellamy p.63

‘Papa, our Valik’ Merridale p.127

‘The fascists drove us’
Pisma S Voiny
p.60

‘It’s not surprising’ Merridale p.127

‘I am writing for posterity’ ibid. p.220 25.3.43

‘a courageous garrison’ Bellamy p.187

‘It is increasingly clear’ Halder p.167

‘I believed that Russia’ Moltke p.151 16.7.41

‘One thing seems certain’ ibid. p.154

‘Everyone laughs’ Grossman p.17

‘I felt an incredible’ Jones
Retreat
p.27

‘We go to look at’ Grossman p.45

‘I thought I’d seen’ ibid. p.48

‘I have told myself’ ibid. p.96

‘if we do not intend’ David Glanz
Barbarossa
Tempus 2001 p.82

‘If we don’t succeed’ Moltke p.168

‘It is wet and cold’ Jones
Retreat
p.52

‘From now on’ ibid. p.56

‘The men hauled’ ibid. p.59

‘Hello, Zoya!’
Pis’ma s voiny
pp.24–5

‘The back wheel’ Owen & Walters p.155

‘The roads have become’ Jones
Retreat
p.74

‘In essence all the’ Zhukov to Konstantin Simonov, quoted
The Times
6.5.2010

‘The leader did not’ Merridale p.84

‘Shoot me if you like’ ibid. p.85

‘The Führer himself’ Jones
Retreat
p.192

‘Eastern campaign extended’ Moltke p.187

Chapter 7 – Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved

‘Soon the Germans’ Konstantin Rokossovskii
Soldatskii Dolg
Olun Press Moscow 2002 p.8

‘Thus we are approaching’ Bellamy p.316 from Haupt
Assault on Moscow 1941
p.152

‘Relief and happiness’ Jones
Retreat
p.125

‘Out of the snowstorm’ ibid. p.141

‘Each time we leave’ ibid. p.193

‘Eighty men were brought’ ibid. p.140

‘methodically, precisely’ Michael Jones
The Siege of Leningrad
John Murray 2008 p.74

‘Our soldiers are only’ ibid. p.78

‘You have yourself’ Khrushchev p.256

‘Our guys just didn’t’ Jones
Leningrad
p.117

‘It is not worth risking’ ibid. p.40

‘We are approaching’ ibid. p.45

‘grass cakes found’ Lazar’ Brontman
Voennyi dnevnik korrespondenta “Pravdy”
[War Diary of a
Pravda
Correspondent] Moscow, 2007 pp.55–6 19.8.42

‘I have received a letter’
Pis’ma s voiny
p.31

‘All our soldiers’ Jones
Leningrad
p.134

‘Lena, things are getting’ ibid. p.149

‘It was as if that boy’ ibid. p.152

‘In Svetlana Magaeva’s’ ibid.

‘People are so weak’ ibid. p.163

‘I learned what war’ Nikolai Nikulin
Vospominaniya o voine
St. Petersburg 2009 internet published

‘He fell to the ground’ Jones
Leningrad
p.193

‘Lidiya Okhapkina had her’ ibid. p.206

‘One woman, utterly’ ibid. p.215

‘I have often wondered’ Jones
Retreat
p.201

‘I have never heard’ ibid. p.203

‘When I finished’ ibid.

‘There is a serious cost’ ibid. p.235

‘I grabbed a saw’ ibid. p.261

‘He lay for a while’ ibid. p.97

‘as we picked our way’ Jones
Leningrad
p.279

‘The fact that we did not’ Jones
Retreat
p.196

‘The only thing holding us’ ibid. p.61

‘They’ll kill the lot of you’ Merridale p.99

‘To discourage desertion’ Zhadobin et al. eds
Ognennaya duga: Kurskaya bitva glazami Lubyanki
[Arc of Fire: The Battle of Kursk as Seen Through the Eyes of the Lubyanka] Moscow 2003 p.25

‘This is no gentleman’s war’ Jones
Retreat
p.82

‘They whined and grovelled’ Merridale p.251

‘We have blundered’ Jones
Retreat
p.107

‘Even if we capture Moscow’ ibid. p.98

‘Forty per cent of our men’ Mathilde Wolff-Monckeburg
On the Other Side
p.57

‘Oh I used to be’ Grossman p.53

‘If we do win’ ibid. p.54

‘I never believe them Roosians’ Nixon p.156

‘First, Russia is an’ Wendell Willkie
One World
New York 1942 p.167

‘grateful recognition’
Spectator
19.6.42

‘It hasn’t half’ Koa Wing p.122 23.2.42

Chapter 8 – America Embattled

‘A Princeton poll’
Public Opinion
p.19

‘We over here’ Roosevelt Letters p.286

‘Before the advent’ Robert Sherwood
The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins
Eyre & Spottiswoode 1948 Vol. I p.132

‘We haven’t heard’ Elaine Steinbeck & Robert Wallsten eds
John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters
Heinemann 1975 p.201

‘If it weren’t for’ ibid. p.206

‘The question of whether’ Berle & Jacobs p.314

‘Who among us’ Donald Nelson
Arsenal of Democracy
Harcourt Brace 1946 p.85

‘An army post’ Carson McCullers
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Houghton Mifflin 1941 p.1

‘slowly gathering together’ Eric Sevareid
Not so Wild a Dream
Knopf 1969 p.201

‘The US Army started’ Martin Blumenson
Parameters
Vol. XIX, No. 4 December 1989

‘We’re going to war’ Carlo D’Este
Eisenhower
Holt 2002 p.264

‘that the United States had’
The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins
Vol. I p.131

‘I am not in a hurry’ BNA PREM3/475/1

‘I know of no’ David Kennedy
Freedom from Fear
Oxford 1999 p.232

‘The ability of the’ Robert Dallek
Lone Star Rising
Oxford 1991 p.197

‘All talk centers around’ IWM MP Troy Papers 95/25/1

‘Some of my friends’ ibid. letter of 9.6.41

‘Historian David Kennedy’ Kennedy p.525

‘afraid, unhappy and bewildered’ Geoffrey Perrett
Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
University of Wisconsin 1973 p.79

‘Dear Jim, When will’ Roosevelt p.370

‘Fighting and death everywhere’ Meirion & Susie Harries
Soldiers of the Sun
Heinemann 1991 p.222

‘In the summer of 1939’ see John Colvin
Nomonhan
Quartet 1999

‘I understand you are’ Christopher Bayly & Tim Harper
Forgotten Armies
Penguin 2004 p.71

‘We were flabbergasted’ Alvin Kiernan
The Unknown Battle of Midway
Yale 2005 p.2

‘the glorious news’ IzumiyaTatsuro
The Minami Organ
Rangoon 1967 p.82

‘a country of Negroes and Jews’ Mack Smith p.273

‘The attack, whatever it may’ Steinbeck p.248 8.12.41

‘
Ladies’ Home Journal
had published’
How America Lives
Henry Holt 1941

‘War is changing’ ibid. p.20

‘I knew after Pearl Harbor’ Arthur Schlesinger
A Life in the Twentieth Century
Mariner Books 2000 p.287

‘the war was neither’ John Morton Blum
V Was for Victory
Harcourt Brace 1976 pp.201 & 89

‘We arrived in the midst’ Schlesinger pp.287–8

‘Geoffrey Perrett has observed’ Perrett p.199

Chapter 9 – Japan’s Season of Triumph

‘I SUPPOSE YOU’LL SHOVE THE LITTLE MEN OFF’

‘itching to beat’ John Dower
War Without Mercy
Pantheon 1986 p.242

‘How many really die’ Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Kamikaze Diaries
University of Chicago Press 2006 p.62

‘Japan, why don’t I’ ibid. p.79 et seq.

‘Each evening we’ Evelyn M. Monahan & Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee
All This Hell
Kentucky University Press 2000

‘It was a joke’ ibid. p.8

‘modern Pompeians’ Bayly & Harper p.141

‘There was a mutiny’ ibid. p.66

‘most frail, tarty’ ibid. p.111

‘I said to myself’ Colin Smith
Singapore Burning
p.123

‘one section of’ ibid. p.146

‘How is this possible?’ ibid. p.157

‘We now understood’ Col. Masanobu Tsuji
Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat
Spellmount 1997 p.91

‘Brussels ball’ Diana Cooper
Trumpets from the Steep
Hart Davis 1960 p.127

‘Every man waved’ Smith p.220

‘The din was terrific’ ibid. p.238

‘scenes of indescribable’ ibid. p.245

‘a nice, good man … calm’ ibid. p.286

‘The Jitra line’ Tsuji p.102

‘They took my father’ Smith p.416

‘a thing which I am sure’ Bayly & Harper p.120

‘The British are treating’ ibid. p.124

‘We have not treated’ Smith p.426

‘That is the end’ Bayly & Harper p.130

‘It was as if’ Smith p.438

‘I don’t think’ ibid. p.496

‘I myself only feel’ ibid. p.473

‘Having lost their nerve’ ibid. p.480

‘In civil life I am’ Bayly & Harper p.142