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‘Hans Michaelis’ Maria Sello Ein Familien und Zeitdokument 1933–45 unpublished MS Wiener Library quoted Roger Moorhouse p.178

‘Sadly I have to say’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.362

‘Voichita Aurel’ Sebastian p.268 28.1.40

‘In March 1942, Himmler’ Spectator 11.12.42

‘At least nine-tenths’ Moltke p.285

‘in Moscow at Easter’ Brontman p.132

‘Hitler did a good job’ Merridale p.253

‘an indigestible lump’ Garrard Bones quoted ibid. p.253

‘In 1945, when’ cf Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin

‘During the Soviet occupation’ Merridale p.108

‘Two of the most’ Koa Wing p.74 26.3.41

‘Murray Mendelsohn’ AI Mendelsohn, Armageddon files

‘fucking Jew’ Stephen Ambrose Band of Brothers Simon & Schuster 1992 p.22

‘As late as December’ Public Opinion p.385

‘Familiar stuff’ Martin Gilbert Auschwitz and the Allies Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981 p.99 BNA FO 921/7

‘In London these’ Karski p.393

‘Most of us were still’ Schlesinger p.307

‘It took some time’ Jeffrey p.xiii

‘“Atrocity stories” had’ George Orwell Tribune 31.3.44

‘In May 1945’ Public Opinion p.501

‘After us there might’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.342

‘On 13 July 1942’ this account is taken from Browning p.2 & passim

‘In no case can I’ ibid. p.128

‘Where are my’ ibid. p.83

‘If this tragedy was’ IWM 02/23/1 Frank Bleichman

‘Rita, you must’ Moorhouse pp195–6

Chapter 21 – Europe Becomes a Battlefield

‘Hitler could think only’ AI Schröder, Armageddon files

‘Everything is melting’ Belov diary 17.4.43

‘the Soviet bacillus’ Merridale p.200

‘They slept with Germans’ Brontman pp.231–3 9.11.43 and p.262 21.2.44

‘Uncle, have you’ ibid. p.271 21.4.44

‘Just praise has been’ see David Glanz Soviet Military Deception in the Second World War Frank Cass 1989

‘The course of the war’ Anders p.201 16.4.44

‘So back we go’ Raleigh Trevelyan Rome ’44 Viking 1982 p.142

‘Efficiency in general’ Atkinson p.490

‘This beachhead is’ ibid. p.488

‘I never saw so many’ ibid. p.416

‘The air roars’ ibid. p.386

‘It has become’ ibid. p.428

‘We could no longer see’ ibid. p.463

‘My heart bleeds’ ibid. p.534

‘evident that the project’ USMHI Forrest Pogue interview, The Supreme Command files

‘Personally I couldn’t’ AI Harris Bomber Command files

‘Who else is fighting’ Horatius Murray ed. John Donovan ‘A Very Fine Commander’ Pen & Sword 2010 p.164

‘3rd Royal Tanks were virtually’ Kershaw Overlord correspondence

‘if he was hit bad’ McCallum Overlord correspondence

‘I was the first tank’ Lewis p.117

‘You know, it sounds’ Jon Lewis ed. Eyewitness D-Day Robinson 1994 p.101

‘No one was moving’ ibid. p.102

‘Eva was very excited’ Klemperer Vol. II p.395

‘On the morning of 6 June’ Overlord files

‘It turns out that’ Poppel p.179

‘No landing or lodgement’ von Schweppenburg in Spectator 5.6.64

‘We all reckon’ Poppel p.181

‘Looting by troops’ FSV Donnison Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe 1944–46 HMS0 1961 p.74 report of 12.6.44

‘It was an onslaught’ IWM 78/35/1 Madame A. de Vigneral

‘The attack entailed’ IWM Col.H.S.Gillies letter of June 1944

‘One of the scenes’ Lewis.p.173

‘I have often wondered’ Richardson Overlord correspondence

‘Here we encountered’ Michael Reynolds Steel Inferno Spellmount 1997 p.75

‘The whole company’ ibid. p.81

‘We had to dig them’ Lewis p.167

‘the urgent need for’ USMHI First US Army report of operations 20.10.43–1.8.44

‘We were essentially’ Kershaw Overlord correspondence

‘A sheet of flame’ J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson MS Overlord files

‘There was, I think’ Charles Farrell Reflections Pentland 2000 p.20

‘We were all rather’ Cloudsley-Thompson MS

‘they’re all dead’ Patrick Hennessy Young Man in a Tank privately published 1997 p.79

‘There were a lot’ Kerr Overlord correspondence

‘strolling, hands in pockets’ quoted Reynolds Steel Inferno p.36

‘knowing that with’ Finucane Overlord correspondence

‘The front tanks are’ Ken Tout Tank! Forty Hours of Battle London 1985 p.39

‘Driver left’ Andy Cropper Dad’s War Anmas 1994 p.33

‘It was a hell’ Lewis Keeble Worm’s Eye View: The Recollections of Lewis Keeble Appendix C to Battlefield Tour: 1/4 KOYLI in the