Authors: Fergal Keane
p. 79 ‘completely to desperation’
Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke,
War
Diaries, 1939–1945
, ed. by Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman (Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2001), p. 357.
p. 80 ‘for the first time in two years’
President Roosevelt to Lord Mountbatten, 8/11/43. PSF/Box 36/A330NN01. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.
p. 81 ‘staple meal …’
IWM, file no. 4370 82/15/1, private papers of Sir Philip Christison, Bt.
p. 81 ‘useless to hope for supplies’
Slim,
Defeat into Victory
, p. 225.
p. 81 Slim picked Colonel
Slim,
Defeat into Victory
, p. 224.
p. 82 ‘incidence of malaria’
Lieutenant Colonel R. Wigglesworth, ‘The Burma Campaigns, 1942–1945: A History of Casualty Evacuation’,
RAMC Journal
, vol. 91 (1948), pp. 1010–24.
p. 82 ‘The Havildar clerks’
David Atkins,
The Reluctant Major
(The Toat Press, 1986), pp. 62–63.
p. 82 ‘The Japanese missiles’
NA, WO 222/187, Medical History of the 14th Army, November 1944–May 1945.
p. 82 ‘You learned to bury’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 83 ‘As a result of this’
NA, WO 222/158, Divisional Psychiatry, A Report by Captain Paul Davis, Attached to 2 British Division.
p. 83 ‘Why should I send’
Ibid.
p. 83 ‘like going into the water’
Winston Churchill to Chiefs of Staff, 8 May 1943, cited in Ronald Lewin,
Slim – The Standardbearer
, p. 123.
p. 83 ‘command must be decentralised’
Jungle Book, Military Training Pamphlet no. 9 (India), September 1943, cited in Daniel Marston,
Phoenix from the Ashes: The Indian Army in the Burma Campaign
(Greenwood Publishing, 2003).
p. 84 ‘Proud as a Royal Rajput’
Talbot Mundy,
For the Salt He Had Eaten
(reprint, Kessinger publishing, 2004).
p. 85 ‘and he accused me’
Field Marshal Lord Wavell,
Wavell: The Viceroy’s Journal
(Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 3, cited in Ronald Lewin,
Slim – The Standard Bearer
(Wordsworth Military Library, 1976), p. 137.
p. 85 ‘This was a great occasion’
IWM, file no. 4370 82/15/1
, The Life and
Times of General Sir Philip Christison, Bt.
, p. 120.
p. 85 ‘He told me had two sons’
Ibid.
p. 86 ‘the standard of his’
NA, WO 303/6320, Essays and Interrogations of Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara.
p. 86 ‘We are indignant’
Sisi Kumar Bose, Alexander Werth, Narayan Gopal Jog, Subbier Appadurai Ayer,
Beacon Across Asia – A Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose
(Orient Blackswan, 1996), p. 144.
p. 87 ‘counter propaganda purposes’
NA, DMI/4746.
p. 87 ‘inculcate the doctrine’
NA, WO 203/4756.
p. 87 ‘He promised to liberate’
Gian Singh,
Memories of Friends and Foes
(Cwmnedd Press, 1995).
p. 87 ‘We did what our officers’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 87 ‘even those who were’
Philip Mason,
A Matter of Honour
(Jonathan Cape, 1974), p. 519.
p. 88 ‘I remember saying that’
Interviewed by Mark Tully, ‘Stand at East’, BBC Radio 4, 11 June 2005.
p. 88 Discrimination in pay between
Cited in Pradeep Barua,
Gentlemen of the Raj: The Indian Army Officer Corps, 1817–1949
(Praeger, 2003), p. 130.
p. 88 ‘The fair deal meant’
Slim,
Defeat into Victory
, p. 195.
p. 88 ‘bush to lie under’
Ibid.
p. 89 ‘What the hell are you’
Gian Singh,
Memories of Friends and Foes.
p. 89 ‘Servants were plentiful’
John Shipster,
Mist on the Rice Fields
(Pen and Sword, 2000), p. 15.
p. 89 ‘I wanted to see how’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 90 ‘It was nothing short’
Shipster,
Mist on the Rice Fields
, p. 33.
p. 90 ‘Monkeys, gibbons, hornbills’
IWM, file no. 4370 82/15/1,
The Life and Times of General Sir Philip Christison
, Bt., p. 124.
p. 90 ‘they were raring to’
Ibid.
, p. 122.
p. 91 ‘A false alert the’
S. Woodburn Kirby,
The War Against Japan
, vol. 3:
The Decisive Battles
(HMSO, 1961), p. 121.
p. 91 ‘Stroking their “Poona” moustaches’
J. B. Knowles, ‘Medium Artillery in Burma’,
Field Artillery Journal
(1945).
p. 92 Daunt recovered after a few
IWM, Oral History Archive, file no. 20461, Reminiscences of Ivan Daunt.
p. 92 ‘the tin-can of mechanical’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 33.
p. 92 ‘The mules, of course’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 93 In one instance 650 mules
p. 93 ‘Many became so attached’
Thomas Dinsdale Hogg,
My Life Story
(privately published, 1998).
p. 93 ‘Oh dear, oh dear’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 20461, interview with Ivan Daunt.
p. 93 ‘Round came the doctor’
Private L. [Len] A. C. Reynolds, memoir published on Burma Star website, 2005.
p. 94 ‘the answer to noise’
Michael Lowry,
Fighting Through to Kohima
(Pen and Sword, 2003), p. 66.
p. 94 ‘It was often proved’
Ibid.
p. 94 ‘bang bang bang’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 20461, interview with Ivan Daunt.
p. 95 ‘We went to see him’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 95 ‘He gave me absolute stick’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 96 ‘By those who understood’
Hogg,
My Life Story.
p. 96 ‘I got on extremely well’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 96 ‘made the mortar for half’
Interview with unnamed employee by Niamh Strudwick, granddaughter of John Laverty.
p. 97 ‘Pure and simple he was’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 97 where his index card referred
Undated correspondence between Ian Hook, Essex Regiment Museum, and Niamh Strudwick, granddaughter of John Laverty: ‘I hesitate to add that his index card refers to him as “Mad Jack.”’
p. 97 ‘There was a big parting’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 98 ‘I thought to myself’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 99 ‘They looked at us’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 99 ‘Although he seemed to’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 99 ‘unwelcome captivity and restraint’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 99 ‘a great opportunity’
J. H. Badley,
Education after the War
(George Allen and Unwin, 1917), p. 3.
p. 100 ‘concentration in things’
Diana Keast, private papers.
p. 100 ‘he seldom wanted to finish’
Ibid.
p. 100 ‘seemed to feel that’
Felix Gade,
My Life on Lundy
(Myrtle Langham, 1978).
p. 100 ‘all oddities, people’
Diana Keast, private papers.
p. 100 ‘The ferret killed the rat’
John Pennington Harman, Lundy Diary. February 1932.
p. 101 ‘Thurs. 31st …’
Ibid.
p. 101 Martin Coles Harman had made
Daily Telegraph
, 7 December 1954.
p. 101’pre-war City’s wonder’
Daily Sketch
, 7 December 1954.
p. 101 In 1933 Harman senior
Time
, 18 April 1937.
p. 101 ‘He so looked up to his father’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 102 ‘Life is just bloody hell’
Letters of John Pennington Harman to Martin Coles Harman, November – December 1941/January 1942.
p. 102 ‘to a life of solitude’
Letter of John Pennington Harman to Martin Coles Harman, 5 and 7 April 1942.
p. 102 ‘I have given the matter’
Letter of John Pennington Harman to Martin Coles Harman, 8 April 1942.
p. 103 ‘I am still a private’
Letter of John Pennington Harman to Livie Noble, 22 October 1942.
p. 103 ‘empty beer bottles’
Wally Evans, ‘John Harman, VC’,
20th – Newsletter of the 20th Bn, Royal Fusiliers
, May 1997.
p. 103 ‘The biggest blunder’
Ibid.
p. 103 ‘Four years in NZ’
Letter of John Pennington Harman to Martin Coles Harman, 14 August 1943.
p. 104 ‘He was a great countryman’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 105 ‘the spacious houses’
E. C. V. Foucar,
I Lived in Burma
(Dennis Dobson, 1956), p. 141.
p. 105 ‘several yellow-robed corpses’
Ibid.
, p. 139.
p. 105 The geisha house
Cited in Louis Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
(J. M. Dent, 1984), p. 599.
p. 107 ‘almost like orphans’
Arthur Swinson,
Four Samurai
(Hutchinson, 1968), p. 116.
p. 107 ‘Where his father had drifted’
Ibid.
p. 107 ‘There is a law of the nations’
John Dower,
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Aftermath of World War II
(Penguin, 1999), p. 21.
p. 107 ‘Loyalty [is] their essential duty’
Imperial Rescript, 4 January 1882.
p. 108 ‘I was surprised by that!’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 108 ‘We called them “Chankoro”’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 108 ‘The teacher beat you’
Interviewed for this book.
p. 110 There had also been an
Emperor Hirohito to 83rd Special Session of the National Diet, October, 1943.
p. 112 ‘to attack and secure’
Imperial General Headquarters Army Directive no. 1237, 22 August 1942, cited in Arthur James Barker,
The
March on Delhi
(Faber, 1963).
p. 112 ‘when the general’
Directive to Commander Burma Area Army from Imperial Headquarters, 17 January 1944.
p. 112 ‘these operations were …’
NA, WO 303/6320, Essays and Interrogations of Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara.
p. 113 When he went to see Mutaguchi
Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara, cited in Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
, p. 152.
p. 115 ‘skin the racoon’
Major General Masazumi Inada, cited in
Ibid.
, p. 160.
p. 115 ‘I love that man’s enthusiasm’
Cited in
Ibid.
, p. 159.
p. 116 ‘The motivation for starting’
NDL: transcript of interview with Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi, 1965.
p. 116 ‘Here was the one place’
Field Marshal Sir William Slim,
Defeat into
Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p 285.
p. 117 Certainly Mutaguchi indulged
Arthur Swinson.
Four Samurai
(Hutchinson, 1968), p. 128.
p. 118 ‘Tojo: What’s the matter?’
Swinson,
Four Samurai
, pp, 125–6.
p. 119 ‘In order to defend’
Directive to Commander Burma Area Army from Imperial Headquarters, 17 January 1944.
p. 119 ‘It would no doubt satisfy’
Cited in Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
, p. 158.
p. 119 ‘we will achieve the objective’
Ryoichi Tobe, Edited by Brian Bond and Kyoichi Tachikawa,
Tojo Hideki As A War Leader, British and Japanese Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945.
(Frank Cass, 2004), p 35.
p. 121 ‘Despite their efforts’
Robert Street,
A Brummie in Burma
(Barny Books, 1997).