All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [426]
‘Everyone thinks only’ ibid. p.135
‘We’re trying to fight’ Colin Smith & John Bierman Alamein: War Without Hate Penguin 2002 p.28
‘loaded with the everyday’ Arthur p.191
They can’t take it’ Mark Johnston At the Front Line Cambridge 1996 p.14
‘All Australians now know’ ibid. p.15
‘One can’t help’ Smith & Bierman p.49
‘To this end’ Killingray p.169
‘It goes without saying’ Sebastian p.320
‘Every day was’ Arthur p.212
‘Beyond doubt Spain’ Stanley Payne Franco and Hitler Yale 2008 p.62
‘it was a point of both’ ibid. p.94
‘We are all twenty-one’ Smith & Bierman p.149
‘Here things are going’ Andrea Rebora ed. Letters of Lt. Pietro Ostellino N. Africa Jan. 1941 to March 1943 Prospettiva Editrice p.51
‘Morale is very high’ ibid. p.52
‘The rot seemed to set in’ Smith & Bierman p.70
‘We are well advanced’ Ostellino p.73
‘Yesterday I received’ ibid. p.79 3.6.41
2 A GREEK TRAGEDY
‘If anyone makes’ Mack Smith p.357
‘Not having any money’ C.N. Hadjipateras & M.S. Falfalios eds Greece 1940–41 Eyewitnessed Efstathiadis 1995 p.35
‘When we’ve beaten’ ibid. p.33
‘The door of our’ ibid. p.104
‘Starving, soaked to the bone’ ibid. p.122
‘Many, many pessimists’ MacGregor p.201
‘Best place we have’ Tony Simpson Operation Mercury Hodder & Stoughton 1981 p.92
‘We were followed by’ ibid. p.101
‘It’s a peculiar feeling’ ibid. p.107
‘the patter of feet’ ibid. p.97
‘They were the ones’ Hadjipateras & Falfalios p.124
‘During the afternoon’ Johnston p.29
‘I saw a captain’ Hadjipateras & Falfalios p.197
‘George, a black night’ ibid. p.230
‘He began by saying’ ibid. p.255
‘I think … the masses’ Koa Wing p.92
3 SANDSTORMS
‘Vichy’s meddling’ For an exceptionally vivid account of Vichy’s intervention in Iraq and the campaign in Syria, see Colin Smith England’s Last War with France: Fighting Vichy 1940–42 Weidenfeld 2009 passim, especially pp.96–8
‘Churchill’s policy’ Warren Tute The Reluctant Enemies Collins 1990 p.81
‘My God, what is’ Némirovsky p.347 21.6.41
‘You thought we were’ Alan Moorehead African Trilogy Hamish Hamilton 1999 p.164
‘I for one have’ Roald Dahl Going Solo Penguin 1988 p.196
‘So long as’ Sebastian p.358
‘I can only now’ Ostellino p.140
‘We can learn from’ Johnston p.28
‘In 1941 and early 1942’ Overlord correspondence
‘One enemy post’ Johnston p.43
‘Men of both armies’ ibid. p.44
‘We were sitting up’ ibid. p.46
‘I drew alongside’ Smith & Bierman p.110
‘You are an Australian’ Johnston p.56
‘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