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‘We strung out across’ Finucane Overlord correspondence

‘That’s what I keep’ ibid.

‘Alan Brooke was heard’ USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan quoted Pogue, Supreme Command files

‘I felt numb’ George Neill Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 200 pp.85, 91, 95–7

‘Through my vision slit’ Metelmann p.87

‘your butt hurt’ Schoo Armageddon files

‘Jesus Christ!’ Kotlowitz pp.120–1

‘burst into tears’ AI Beavers Armageddon files

‘If you are brave’ Second Army Intelligence, Armageddon files

‘I wasn’t scared’ AI Moody, Armageddon files

‘Fear reigned’ Donald Burgett: Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne Dell 1999 p.1

‘They looked peaceful’ Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files

‘It was so foggy’ Reynolds Men of Steel p.120

‘Gordon got ripped’ Fussell p.131

‘in the small town’ William Hitchock Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–45 Faber 2008 pp.87, 89

‘The shattered remnants’ George D. Graves Blood and Snow: The Ardennes

‘My sergeant and I’ Reynolds Men of Steel p.113

‘We finished the battle’ AI Schröder, Armageddon files

‘Americans are not brought up’ USMHI Pogue The Supreme Command files

‘The record of accomplishment’ Blumenson Parameters

‘I shot myself’ Henry Hills narrative p.257, Armageddon files

‘The recommendation was’ Bowlby p.109

‘We left along our path’ Anders p.251

Chapter 24 – The Fall of the Third Reich

1 BUDAPEST: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

‘Lieutenant, sir’ Krisztian Ungvary Battle for Budapest Tauris 2003 p.20

‘The young soldier’ ibid. p.28

‘and promised that Budapest’ ibid. p.41

‘This is the most beautiful’ ibid. p.52

‘would not ruin’ ibid. p.35

‘The Russkis’ ibid. p.111

‘Bizarrely, a group of’ ibid. p.64

‘It was a girl of about’ ibid. p.141

‘Leaving the room’ ibid p.142

‘Supply situation intolerable’ ibid. p.147

‘Haven’t you got a mother’ ibid. p.239

‘In narrow Kazinczy’ ibid. p.247

‘Pus, blood, gangrene’ ibid. p.203

‘The Hitlerists continued’ ibid. p.208

‘They were simple’ ibid. p.293

2 EISENHOWER’S ADVANCE TO THE ELBE

‘a small, bird-like’ Donald T. Peak Fire Mission Sunflower University Press 2001 p.148

‘I’ve had enough’ Charles Felix Crossing the Sauer Burford Books 2002 p.153

‘a soldier in Aaron Larkin’s’ MS Aaron’s War Armageddon files

‘Pfc Harold Lindstrom’ Lindstrom MS Armageddon files

‘We were members’ History Branch Office of the JAG with the US Forces European Theatre 18 July 1942–l November 1945 Vol. I pp.242–9

‘I took aim’ White p.102

‘He wore a gray wool’ Fussell p.120

‘I am a deserter’ AI Pflug, Armageddon files

‘The German army left’ Djilas p.446

‘We are worn out’ Poppel p.133

‘Rifles will be carried’ Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files

‘he once addressed’ AI Saurma, Armageddon files

‘rations were excellent’ Michael Reynolds Men of Steel p.231

3 BERLIN: THE LAST BATTLE

‘I wanted to shout’ Grossman p.330

‘Estates, villages and towns’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945 p.100

‘At least we were young’ AI Kowitz, Armageddon files

‘In these situations’ AI Pflug, Armageddon files

‘The world is a very lonely’ IWM 94/7/1 Mrs.S.H.Stewart MS

‘I don’t give a fuck’ Antony Beevor Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 Penguin 2002 p.33

‘Fritz, halt!’ Stanislav Gorsky Zapiski navodchika SU-76 [Memoirs of an SU-76 Gunlayer] Moscow 2010 p.108

‘We stay in all sorts’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.186

‘I’m sitting in my candle-lit’ Fromm Armageddon files

‘We no longer fought’ Sajer p.382

‘To be an officer’ Beevor p.164

‘These days I keep’ Anonymous p.62

‘Hello my darling!’ Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha p.137

‘Silence! I’ve got’ Beevor p.189

‘My God!’ Hagen p.213

‘It’s all over’ Moorhouse p.360

‘Dear Fatherland, set’ ibid. p.351

‘as if blood’ Ruth Andreas-Friedrich Berlin Underground 1938–45 New York 1947 p.273

‘Years ago they shouted’ Jacob Kronika Der Untergang Berlins Hamburg 1946 p.127 quoted Moorhouse p.359

‘when we left Lieberose’ Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn Chasing Shadows Harmondsworth 2001 pp.238–9

‘Along the whole