Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble (62 page)

‘a major point …’
, quoted D. K. R. Crosswell,
Beetle: The Life of General Walter Bedell Smith
, Lexington, KY, 2010,
837

Churchill recognizing the graver consequence, Churchill to Ismay, 10.1.45, TNA PREM 3 4 31/2

‘He’s a psychopath …’
, Cornelius J. Ryan Collection, Ohio University, Box 43, file 7, typescript, n.d.

Allied casualties in the Ardennes, CMH
SC
, 396; and Royce L. Thompson, OCMH, typescript, 28.4.52, CMH 2-3.7 AE P-15

‘Not for God and country …’
, Gerald K. Johnson, ‘The Black Soldiers in the Ardennes’,
Soldiers
, February 1981, 16ff.

‘the Germans made us take off …’
, etc., ‘The Service Diary of German War Prisoner #315136’, Sgt John P. Kline, Coy M, 3rd Battalion, 423rd Infantry Regiment, CBMP, Box 2

‘xylophone ribs …’
, etc., 19.4.45, GBP

‘5,000 mile stare’
, Vonnegut on C-Span, New Orleans, 30.5.95

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