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‘Americans have a greater’ USNA 25 March 1942: Survey of Intelligence Materials No. 16

‘The Americans … know us’ BNA FO371/34116

‘The great and rich men’ Keith Douglas Alamein to Zem Zem Penguin 1967 p.87

‘A whisper is’ Harold Nicolson Diaries Collins 1965 Vol. II 11.2.42

‘The conduct of our’ Commons 22.4.42

‘Things here get better’ Ostellino p.216

‘I assume that England’ Victor Klemperer I Shall Bear Witness Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1999 Vol. II p.117

‘We are stuck’ Vallicella p.39

‘For 16 months’ ibid. p.46

‘every man for himself’ ibid. p.55

‘How can we keep’ ibid. p.58

‘We are at the end’ ibid. p.105

‘Before an attack’ Craig p.75

‘I have seen many’ Vallicella p.95

‘Officers and men’ F. Formica ed. Account of the Battle of Deir El Murra Diary of Second Lieutenant Vincenzo Formica www.fereamole.it

‘All our illusions’ ibid. 3.11.42

‘As we drove, vehicles’ ibid.

‘I met Captain Bondi’ ibid. 17.11.42

‘In the tragedy’ Vallicella p.117

‘Reading this order’ ibid. p.119

‘Panzer officer Tassilo’ Hagen pp.176–7

‘In five minutes’ Alfred Perrott-White French Legionnaire John Murray 1953 p.147

‘Suddenly realized’ Koa Wing p.148

‘It is enormously’ Moltke p.260

‘Good news came’ Belov diary 10.11.42

‘We hope he is right’ Vallicella p.125

‘At midnight mass’ ibid. p.154

‘Never has a meal’ ibid. p.155

‘I think the Americans’ Koa Wing p.168 28.2.43

‘the pursuit of Rommel’ USMHI Pogue The Supreme Command interview files

‘I think back’ Formica diary 11.9.43

Chapter 15 – The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943

‘Everyone talks incessantly’ Brontman p.62 12.9.42

‘The Russians weren’t very’ AI Godau, Armageddon files

‘The frontal attacks’ Pershanin p.198

‘Major Anoprienko’ Belov diary 13.3.43

‘It was hard to’ Pershanin p.41

‘For ten days’ Pis’ma s voiny p.199

‘We never heard’ Guy Sajer The Forgotten Soldier Sphere 1971 p.171

‘They are so frightening’ Grossman p.249

‘Not only divisions’ Merridale p.261

‘I received the letter’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha pp.199–202

‘Today a Youssef’ Belov diary 13.1.43

‘They are greenhorns’ ibid.11.8.43

‘This is the first time’ ibid.2.6.43

‘A German deserter’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 31.3.43

‘a big fellow’ Belov diary 2.6.43

‘How fortunate were’ Merridale p.194

‘So many families’ Pis’ma s voiny p.194

‘It grew hot’ Rotmistrov quoted Robin Cross Citadel O’Mara 1993 p.195

‘In a few hours’ Pis’ma s voiny pp.132–3

‘The 676th Rifle Regiment’ Ognennaya duga p.34

‘Forward!’ Cross p.214

‘We had been warned’ ibid. p.215

‘it was an awesome scene’ ibid. p.229

‘The Germans sent tanks’ Brontman pp.39–40 26.7.42

‘It is a shame’ Merridale p.183

‘The Germans had permitted’ Brontman p.162 28.7.43

‘It’s hard now’ Merridale p.203

‘We’ve seen no bread’ Brontman p.153 14.7.43

‘There is no bread’ Ognennaya duga p.52

‘Death, and only death’ ibid. pp.79–80

‘We passed through’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 9.10.43

‘I was shaken by’ Pershanin p.35

‘[They] were a terrible’ ibid. p.27

‘We march in the footsteps’ ibid.1.11.43

‘The deputy battalion commander’ Grossman p.247

‘The enemy’s front’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 20.9.43

‘The weather and mud’ Belov diary 28.11.43

‘the soldiers with whom’ Ognennaya duga pp.89–90

‘You shit!’ Pershanin p.78

‘Apart from their dwindling’ Cross p.250

‘Frantic men were abandoning’ Sajer p.315

‘Each German soldier’ Hagen p.181

Chapter 16 – Divided Empires

1 WHOSE LIBERTY?

‘The cost in men’ Nicholas Monsarrat in his autobiographical novel The Cruel Sea Cassell 1951 pp.151–2

‘My father was able’ Tom Bower Nazi Gold HarperCollins 1997 p.13

‘gigantic sums’ ibid. p.58

‘irrelevant under Swiss law’ ibid. p.111

‘A January 1944 opinion survey’ USNA State Department Opinion Surveys RG59 Box 11

‘had a very vague’ Fyodor Mochulsky Gulag Boss Oxford 2010 p.141

‘The Japs live like’ Blum p.160

‘It was a very white’ Capano MS Armageddon files

‘The danger lies not’ Blum p.92

‘as the Roman legions’ ibid. p.149

‘If we send you’ AI Carullo, Armageddon files

‘Sergeant Henry Kissinger’ AI Kissinger