All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [429]
‘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
‘Their conduct was bestial’ BNA WO106/2550B
‘It shouldn’t have happened’ Smith p.497
‘Chin up, girls’ ibid. p.533
‘The fall of Singapore’ Bayly & Harper p.126
‘had been handed over’ ibid. p.147
‘The area presented’ Stephen Abbott And All My War is Done Pentland 1991 p.31
‘The heavens had indeed’ Bayly & Harper p.117
‘I saw them tramping’ Smith p.550
‘Groups of them were’ Harries p.264
‘We had cause’ John Kennedy The Business of War Hutchinson 1957 p.198
‘I moved to the Nipponese’ Edward Dunlop The Diaries of ‘Weary’ Dunlop Viking 1986 pp.12–13
2 THE ‘WHITE ROUTE’ FROM BURMA
‘In a little house’ Yvonne Vaz Ezdani ed. Songs of the Survivors Noronha Goa 2007
‘Out! Quick!’ Daw Sein Les Dix milles vies d’une femme birmane Claude Delachet Fuillon 1978 pp.152–5
‘I’m not dead!’ Edzani p.87
‘Life begins with’ Bayly & Harper p.161
‘All we saw were’ Julian Thompson Forgotten Voices of Burma Ebury 2009 p.21
‘among other subject’ ibid. p.164
‘We Europeans lived’ ibid. p.88
‘It is rather disheartening’ LHA Brooke-Popham Papers File V 7/18/2
‘[The Japanese] not only’ John Smyth Before the Dawn Cassell 1957 pp.139–40
‘a country which had lost’ Mi Mi Khaing A Burmese Family Longman 1946 p.130
‘It came to us’ Tatsuro p.120
‘Has Singapore fallen?’ ibid. p.142
‘We didn’t know what hit us’ Bayly & Harper p.175
‘I sent my runner’ Thompson Burma pp.11–12
‘We were arrogant’ ibid. p.41
‘The general atmosphere’ Bayly & Harper p.160
‘a Harley Street specialist’ ibid. p.163
‘The attitude of the army’ Thompson Burma p.34
‘We always felt’ Bayly & Harper p.339
‘How thrilling it was’ ibid. p.173
‘The clearing was littered’ Geoffrey Tyson Forgotten Frontier p.79
‘Her voice soared clear’ Ezdani p.80
‘The medical wards are’ Mrs G. Portal quoted Bayly & Harper p.189
‘It is the misfortune’ Jawaharlal Nehru Selected Works of Nehru Orient Longman 1980 Vol. XII p.269
Chapter 10 – Swings of Fortune
1 BATAAN
‘We cannot win’ James Reston Prelude to Victory NY 1942 p.x
‘The Army … are aiming at’ Slessor Papers File XIIc
‘After Pearl Harbor’ USMHI Forrest Pogue The Supreme Command files
‘It will be a long, hard war’ Christopher Thorne The Issue of War Oxford 1985 p.25
‘People are crazy’ Blum p.97
‘The Good War myth’ Schlesinger pp.283–4
‘The men have no great’ Pogue p.335
‘A behaviourist noted’ Perrett p.213
‘Suddenly we realized’ Fred Mears Carrier Combat Doubleday 1944 p.3
‘It was amazing how long’ Kiernan p.3
‘Apparently it takes’ Ernie Pyle Here is Your War Pocket NY 1945 p.555
‘They came up the boulevards’ Mydans p.147
‘I guess we are’ Elizabeth Norman Band of Angels Random House 1999 p.66
‘Scores of Japs ripped’ William E. Dyess The Dyess Story Putnam New York 1944 p.43
‘the most deplorable’ John Glusman Conduct Under Fire Viking 2007 p.136
‘They were usually’ Monahan & Neidel-Greenlee p.41
‘The wounded often’ ibid. p.50
‘The argument raged’ Alfred Weinstein Barbed Wire Surgeon Macmillan 1947 p.34
‘Now we knew’ Donald Knox Death March Harcourt Brace 1981 p.121
‘If you fell’ ibid. p.136
‘just so disappointed’ Glusman p.197
‘Poor Wainwright!’ The Eisenhower Diaries Norton 1981 p.54
‘The news commentators’ Blum p.54
2 THE CORAL SEA AND MIDWAY
‘Okay, so long’ Captain Walter Karig & Commander Eric Purdon Battle Report: Pacific War Middle Phase Rinehart 1946 p.19
‘It was pretty discouraging’ E.T. Wooldridge ed. Carrier Warfare in the Pacific Smithsonian 1993 p.41
‘They were curious’ ibid. p.42
‘fires had gotten’ ibid. p.45
‘Many of the sailors’ Kiernan p.13
‘We had a small group’ Wooldridge p.281
‘I just felt at home’ ibid. p.285
‘a sailor on Hornet’ ibid. p.68
‘There was oil very’ ibid. p.168
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