All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [428]
‘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