All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [430]
‘After a battle is over’ Walter Lord Incredible Victory New York 1967 p.87
‘The fate of the United States’ John Costello The Pacific War Collins 1981 p.285
‘All of us knew’ The Battle of Midway Round Table http.//www.midway12.org
‘When approximately one mile’ US Naval Historical Center Esders After-Action report
‘I was not aware’ Kiernan p.45
‘I was mad because’ Wooldridge pp.56–7
‘I saw this glint’ ibid. p.58
‘As I looked back’ Tom Cheek A Ring of Coral Battle of Midway Roundtable http//home.comcast.net/r2russ/midway.ringcoral.htm
‘I was horrified’ Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okimuya Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan Annapolis 1955 p.177
3 GUADALCANAL AND NEW GUINEA
‘In the dirty dawn’ Robert Leckie Helmet for my Pillow Ebury 2010 p.57
‘Wizard!!!’ Costello p.177
‘The enemy ships had’ Bruce Loxton & Chris Coulthard-Clark The Shame of Savo Allen & Unwin 1994 pp.143–7
‘The navy was still’ ibid. p.265
‘Whether these were’ Donald Miller D-Days in the Pacific Simon & Schuster 2005 p.68
‘At daybreak a couple’ ibid. p.72
‘Here was cacophony’ Leckie p.78
‘Morale was very bad’ Miller pp.67–8
‘Everything was so’ James Jones The Thin Red Line Collins 1963 p.43
‘[It] was the most tremendous’ Ronald Spector Eagle Against the Sun Viking 1985 pp.205–6
‘I have seen men’ George Johnston The Toughest Fighting in the World Duell, Sloan & Pearce New York 1943 p.5
‘What a hell of a load’ ibid. p.8
‘this is not murder’ ibid. p.40
‘I do not believe’ ibid. p.198
‘Confusion was the keynote’ ibid. p.45
‘Our troops are fighting’ ibid. pp.167–8
‘It was a sly and’ Robert Eichelberger Our Jungle Road to Tokyo Nashville Battery Classics 1989 pp.21–3
Chapter 11 – The British at Sea
1 THE ATLANTIC
‘The bombers’ Julian Thompson The War at Sea Sidgwick & Jackson 1996 p.113
‘I couldn’t see anything’ ibid. p.149
‘sheer unmitigated hell’ J.B. Lamb The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada’s Atlantic War Macmillan Toronto 1979 p.73
‘It was a continual’ AI Harris 11.10.76, Bomber Command files
‘An average of’ Stephen Howarth & David Law eds The Battle of the Atlantic 1939–45 Greenhill 1994 Jurgen Rohwer p.411
‘One minute we had’ ibid. p.51
‘trusting to make’ Richard Woodman The Real Cruel Sea Murray 2004 p.166
‘Living and working’ Howarth & Law p.215
‘race and other population’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.612
‘There will be no’ Erich Topp quoted Howarth & Law p.217
‘amounted almost to’ Corelli Barnett Engage the Enemy More Closely Hodder & Stoughton 1991 p.486
‘This low state of efficiency’ quoted Howarth & Law p.199
‘These problems often’ ibid. p.522
2 ARCTIC CONVOYS
‘While one could keep’ Thompson War at Sea p.160
‘I waited for the swell’ Richard Woodman Arctic Convoys John Murray 2001 p.323
‘We were kept in’ ibid. p.107
‘The mood is bitter’ ibid. p.220
‘rather sad and twitchy’ ibid. p.161
‘The arrival in Kola’ Thompson War at Sea p.161
‘God knows we paid’ Woodman Arctic p.445
3 THE ORDEAL OF PEDESTAL
‘a fantastically wonderful’ Richard Woodman Malta p.379
‘I felt indeed that’ Thompson War at Sea p.192
‘She presented a’ ibid. p.192
‘Most of us felt’ ibid. p.195
‘I could never have’ Woodman Malta p.403
Chapter 12 – The Furnace: Russia in 1942
‘We arrived at 8 p.m.’ Brontman p.132
‘We’re having a little’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945 19.5.42
‘Eastern man is very’ Gunther Blumentritt in The Fatal Decisions Michael Joseph 1952 pp.37–8
‘One explosion next’ Potsdam Vol. VI p.938
‘We wept as we retreated’ Merridale p.133
‘Women also policed’ Brontman p.22 18.6.42
‘psychologically prepared for’ ibid. p.31 4.4.42
‘The night was terribly dark’ Front Diary of N.F. Belov 1941–44 in Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945 23.4.42
‘I have the inescapable’ BNA WO208/1777
‘There was, I said’ Anders p.124
‘we Poles were now’ ibid. p114
‘The civilians are howling’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha pp.271–2 23.10.42
‘These fools have allowed’ Grossman p.127
‘We have to learn’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.273
‘Results deplorable’ Belov diary 9.9.42
‘We ploughed over the