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‘We moved across terrain’ ibid. p.226

‘Why drag out’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.59

‘Now we’re in front of’ Fromm Armageddon files

‘They all seem so miserable’ Anonymous p.36

‘a mere child’ Dorothea von Schwanenflügel Laughter Wasn’t Rationed Alexandria VA 1999 p.342

‘You see very young’ Anonymous pp.40–1

‘Berlin … presented a dreadful’ Sune Persson Escape from the Third Reich London 2010 pp.113–14

‘We are vegetating’ Helga Schneider The Bonfire of Berlin London 2005 p.55

‘If – instead of this’ Richard Bessel Germany 1945 Simon & Schuster 2009 p.141

‘No sound of man’ Anonymous p.189

‘Everywhere there’s filth’ ibid. p.185

‘The baker comes stumbling’ ibid. p.71

‘No one could invent’ ibid. p.230

‘a means of escape’ ibid. p.81

‘They do not speak’ Bessell p.267

‘Horrifying things’ Grossman p.327

‘I am a Russian’ Jacob Kronika Der Untergang Berlins quoted Moorhouse p.385

‘The pastor shot himself’ quoted Moorhouse p.372

‘They treated us with’ Bailey p.244

‘Illusions about the Red Army’ Djilas p.420

‘There was still too much’ Fraser p.267

‘Our celebration was’ Diercks MS Armageddon files

‘thank God it’s all over’ Cropper p.90

‘Within an hour the city’ Detachment 14A2 BCA Regiment Armageddon files

Chapter 25 – Japan Prostrate

‘We shall be doing no more’ Bayly & Harper p.431

‘Partisans, young men’ ibid. p.434

‘In all my life’ US Marine Corps Historical Institute Quantico Joseph Raspilair Papers

‘Lt. Patrick Caruso’ Patrick Caruso Nightmare on Iwo Naval Institute Press 2001

‘I saw … destroyers get hit’ Wooldridge p.253

‘I was amazed’ ibid. p.263

‘We took off last night’ phttp://b-29.org/

‘LeMay is an operator’ Steve Birdsall Saga of the Superfortress Sidgwick & Jackson 1981 p.143

‘There was surprisingly’ ibid. p.149

‘having visited’ ibid. p.312

‘To me, that means’ The Hourglass pp.401–2

‘There have been innumerable’ Rikihei Inoguchi & Tadashi Nakajima with Roger Pineau The Divine Wind Hutchinson 1959 p.179

‘I can remember’ Wooldridge p.110

‘Kasuga Takeo’ Kasuga Takeo quoted Kamikaze Diaries Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney University of Chicago Press 2006 p.9

‘Many of the new arrivals’ Inoguchi & Nakajima p.148

‘a few of these pilots’ ibid. p.149

‘Now the wholesale’ Ohnuki-Tierney p.88

‘Today the Japanese’ ibid. p.126

‘Mother, I am’ ibid. p.173

‘The other day I paid’ ibid. p.209

‘My comrades!’ USMHI Japanese PoW dox PW2050 24.6.45

‘I’ve got a message’ Hugh Pettigrew quoted Thompson Burma p.352

‘We thought we would’ ibid. p.356

‘In the forefront’ Yoshida Mitsuru Requiem for Battleship Yamato Constable 1999 p.44

‘They had prepared’ Laura Fermi Atoms in the Family University of Chicago Press 1954 p.254

‘I have no hope’ Richard Rhodes Ultimate Powers Simon & Schuster 1986 p.641

‘Those who advocate’ ibid. p.641

‘The sure path’ Yoshijiro Umezu ‘Facing the Decisive Battle’ Kaikosha Kiji 17.5.45

‘Your lectures are so’ Nemesis files p.21

‘No one person’ AI Nakamura Nemesis files

‘We heard about’ IWM RNR 95/5/1

‘We played alarm clock’ Birdsall p.309

Chapter 26 – Victors and Vanquished

‘We … mourn most deeply’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.130

‘Like timid ground creatures’ New York Times 22.4.45

‘I felt as if’ Anders p.282

‘They greet me politely’ ibid. p.286

‘We, the Poles’ IWM 90/11/1 B. Lvov

‘Everyone agreed’ Koa Wing p.268 11.5.45

‘Darling I know’ Day-Lewis p.174

‘Gunner David McCormick’ letter in possession of Miranda Corben

‘For years I expected’ Kevin Wilson Journey’s End Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010 p.392

‘It was, I suppose’ Schlesinger p.353

‘The war, while’ Pogue’s War p.379

‘I wanted everything’ AI Minamoto, Nemesis files

‘In those days, Japanese’ AI Konada, Nemesis files

‘seen it come out’ Wooldridge p.286

‘The ending of the war’ Birdsall p.311

‘I am ashamed’ Sebastian p.628 31.12.44

‘It would be an error’ Christopher Thorne Allies of a Kind p.401 5.4.44

‘I cried when I’ Bayly & Harper p.455

‘old friends so changed’ ibid. p.438

‘I knew we’d have to’ B.J. Kerkvliet The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines Berkeley 1977 p.109

‘I soon found