All Hell Let Loose_ The World at War 1939-1945 - Max Hastings [432]
‘Tea from the British’ Blum p.66
‘These gravely yearned-for’ ibid. p.64
‘a beautiful young man’ AI Beavers, Armageddon files
‘I’m going home!’ Schoo MS, Armageddon files
‘Any guy overseas’ Blum p.65
‘I see all these thousands’ Steinbeck p.264
‘I’m going to start’ Blum p.67
‘They are’ Iris Origo War in Val D’Orcia Cape 1947 p.58 15.8.43
2 HOME FRONTS
‘Yesterday I received’ Belov diary 31.12.42
‘Any personal balance’ Sebastian p.585 2.12.43
‘A pale, thin woman’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.273 11.9.42
‘What is left of it?’ ibid. p.273 1.10.42
‘We’ve got to work’ ibid. 20.10.42
‘We had no life’ Braithwaite p.131
‘Farm times became’ Lizzie Collingham The Taste of War Allen Lane 2011 p.78
‘People were not’ Fraser p.183
‘Edward McCormick’ letter in possession of Mrs Miranda Corben
‘Gladys Skillett’ Times obituary 27.2.2010 by Colin Smith
‘Now it is dawn’ Miriam Mafai Pane Nero: Donne e vita quotidiana nella seconda Guerra mondiale Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1987 pp.159–62
‘The cold and damp’ ibid. p.243
‘It was sad to see’ Say & Holland p.297
‘Stefan Kurylak’ IWM Kurylak MS
‘We are being taken’ IWM 99/9/1 Poznanski MS
‘The extraordinary thing’ Anthony Powell A Writer’s Notebook Heinemann 2001 p.94
‘Woke half drunk’ Michael Davie ed. The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1976 p.567 1.6.44
‘in comparison to’ Last p.221 11.10.42
‘Christmas is going to be’ Martin Crook ed. Wartime Letters of a West Kent Man privately published 2007
‘We never knew’ Spectator 14.12.42
‘His strange uniform’ Blythe Private Words p.43
‘Her face was wooden’ Koa Wing p.188 7.9.43
‘I had a very nice’ Studs Terkel The Good War Hamish Hamilton 1984 p.224
‘I cried because’ Koa Wing p.135 16.6.42
‘He was a soldier’ Terkel p.118
‘Bernice Schmidt’ Janine Sinkoskey Brodine ed. Missing Pieces Hara Publishing 2000 p.49
‘What are you thinking’ Koa Wing p.144 9.10.42
‘Is it possible that’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.35 12.1.41
‘One grows ever more’ ibid. p.60 25.6.42
‘Food was our obsession’ Longmate p.150
‘One morning a jar’ ibid. p.156
‘In this place one’s mind’ Tamsin Day-Lewis ed. Last letters Home Macmillan 1995
‘Imports of European delicacies’ Blum p.98
‘I’m sick of the same’ Collingham p.112
‘In pursuit of the’ ibid. p.217
‘As they died the government’ Theodore White & Annalee Jacoby Thunder Out of China Gollancz 1947 pp.166–7
‘were still living’ Collingham p.116
‘My father had no’ Mafai p.167
‘Hunger governed all’ Alan Moorehead Eclipse Granta 2000 p.66
‘and had the ordinary’ Norman Lewis Naples ’44, p.26 4.10.43
‘to argue that the war’ BNA FO371 ZM257/18/22
‘That only a relatively’ an exemplary examination of these issues is found in David W. Ellwood Italy 1943–45 Leicester University Press 1985
‘A very different’ ibid. p.152
3 A WOMAN’S PLACE
‘and is, I suspect’ Koa Wing p.172 25.3.43
‘My initiation into’ Longmate p.123
‘the airless workplace’ Baring p.55
‘I suppose in everything’ Koa Wing p.129 15.4.42
‘Lazar Brontman recorded’ Brontman p.185 29.8.42
‘tears running down’ Nikolai Nikulin internet MS
‘I went to visit’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 18.3.43
‘The PPZh is our’ Grossman p.120
‘Villages have become’ Grossman p.119
‘Dear Vova!’ Pis’ma s voiny p.83
‘It sometimes seems’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha Kalinichenko letters 1.12.42 & 1.2.43
‘I push the pedals’ ibid. Kalinichenko letters 20.2.44
‘Maybe you should’ AI Beavers Armageddon files
‘I always believed that women’ AI Harris 14.10.76 Bomber Command files
‘Air Vice-Marshal Edward’ AI Addison Bomber Command files
‘It’s bloody rubbish’ AI Owen, Bomber Command files
‘I was young’ AI von Joest Armageddon files
‘I am … almost’ Koa Wing p.94 17.6.41
‘I did not want to’ ibid. p.104 7.10.41
‘one of the happiest’ ibid. p.248 31.12.44
‘Hostel life has changed’ ibid. p.257 31.3.45
‘Honey, it’s pitiful’ Fennema MS Armageddon files
‘The war has shaken’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1.7.43
‘I would sometimes’ Mafai p.177
Chapter 14 – Out of Africa
‘The English were kind’ Dugan MS Overlord files
‘The force of tradition