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‘We discussed’ Craig p.176

‘They kept saying’ Pogue p.333 25.1.45

‘The spirit of human’ Craig p.31

‘On an average’ Robin Hastings An Undergraduate’s War Bell House 1997 p.104

‘I have drawn’ Rathbone Overlord correspondence

‘We were often’ Selerie Overlord correspondence

‘none of us were’ Lapp Armageddon files

‘I told them’ Diercks Armageddon files

‘Shit and shit’ Barry Broadfoot ed. Six War Years Toronto 1974 p.97

‘War is a merry thing’ Overlord files

‘The first men to die’ AI Godau, Armageddon files

‘The Russian won’t’ Second Army intelligence report, Armageddon files

‘I see worried faces’ Kurt Meyer Grenadiers Fedorowiz Publishing 1994 p.134

‘From 6.30 to 8 a.m.’ Zimmer Overlord files

‘How did the poor’ Poppel p.221

‘My darling Irmi’ Overlord files

‘In Soviet thinking’ P.H. Vigor Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory Macmillan 1984 p.137

‘This was the last’ Merridale p.167

‘The enemy’s use’ Armageddon files

‘They all looked pitiful’ Merridale p.242

‘camels on their knees’ ibid. p.259

‘One night you sleep’ Pis’ma s voiny p.188

‘It was incomprehensible’ Reynolds Steel Inferno p.40

‘There are a great many’ Moltke pp.282–3

‘No one ever laughs’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.104 25.6.44

‘For days we have’ ibid p.107

‘We thought it impossible’ AI Schröder, Armageddon files

‘Our nerves were shot’ Cropper p.38

‘The floor of the valley’ Bellfield & Essame The Battle for Normandy London 1975 p.209

‘My driver was burning’ Lewis p.271

‘We were shell-shocked’ Michael Reynolds Men of Steel Spelmount 1999 pp.32–3

‘The remainder of the war’ Spectator 5.6.64

Chapter 22 – Japan: Defying Fate

‘Old friendships dissolve’ Australian Forces Weekly Intelligence Review No. 118 NZ External Affairs file 84/6/1 pt.1

‘India is not at present’ LHA Lethbridge papers, Lethbridge Report p.5

‘It is now our turn’ Christopher Thorne Allies of a Kind p.555

‘The physical hammering’ Hart p.162

‘It was a stinking hell’ ibid. p.158

‘There are few things’ Thompson Burma p.219

‘We shot them on the tennis court’ ibid. p.215

‘We were attacked’ ibid. p.220

‘Your nerves got’ ibid. p.190

‘When you get to’ ibid. p.193

‘Come on you chaps’ Hart p.187

‘Well, Sam’ ibid. p.173

‘But one was burning’ Raymond Cooper B Company Dobson 1978 p.137

‘In the rain, with no’ ibid. p.389

‘If you went out’ Wooldridge p.132

‘Enemy dead were’ Harry Gailey Bougainville 1943–45: The Forgotten Campaign University of Kentucky 1991 p.155

‘Out here the war life’ Fussell p.109

‘It wasn’t dysentery’ Gailey p.124

‘Even under the best’ John Monks A Ribbon and a Star Henry Holt 1945 p.40

‘Large bogeys bearing’ Wooldridge p.163

‘The carrier below’ ibid. p.177

‘We had hardly any’ Miller p.147

‘It reminded me of’ Carl Hoffman Saipan: The Beginning of the End US Marine Corps 1950 p.223

‘Nowhere have I seen’ Time 3.7.44

‘They lost all account’ Norman Mailer The Naked and the Dead 1948 p.249

‘He was pretty shaken’ Wooldridge p.209

Chapter 23 – Germany Besieged

‘You and I are both’ Second Army intelligence report, Armageddon files

‘I have buried all’ ibid.

‘Then there’ll be nothing’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.86

‘I know why you want’ AI Moser Armageddon files

‘Café Kaefer’ Second Army Intelligence, Armageddon files

‘To be nineteen’ Fussell p.10

‘a walkover’ Harris to Portal 1.11.44, Cochrane Papers

‘Until we get Antwerp’ Marshall Papers Box 67/13 25.9.44

‘This is not only true’ Devers Military Review Vol. XXVII no. 7 October 1947 p.6

‘We all thought the war’ Koa Wing p.236 29.9.44

‘This … is a letter’ Day-Lewis p.19

‘the utter misery’ John Ellis The Sharp End Pimlico 1993 p.30

‘By the winter Americans’ Pogue The Supreme Command files USMHI Carlisle

‘In Montgomery’s 21st’ Dr John Petty British Army Review summer 2010 p.89

‘The English, and even more’ Armageddon files

‘I am getting exceedingly’ Marshall Papers Box 67/15

‘What a mess’ Ellis p.96

‘Words cannot describe’ A.K. Altes & N.K.C.A. In’t Veld, The Forgotten Battle: Overloon and the Maas Salient 1944–45 Spellmount 1995 p.160

‘The war was over’ Broadfoot p.231

‘I remember from’ Robert