Armageddon - Max Hastings [381]
“I didn’t work up a great hate”: AI Nicholas Kafkalas.
“Unfortunately [for the British]”: Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War (University of Kentucky Press: 2001), pp. 189–90.
“Up till Overlord”: John Colville, The Fringes of Power (Hodder & Stoughton: 1985), 3.20.45.
“Up to July 1944”: Lord Moran, Churchill: The Struggle for Survival 1940–65 (Constable: 1966), 7.5.54.
“Roosevelt envied Churchill’s genius”: John Grigg reviewing Roy Jenkins’s Churchill in The Times, 10.3.01.
“a more perceptive and less romantic”: Conrad Black, Roosevelt (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2003), p. 996.
“As [Roosevelt’s] grip slackened”: Thorne, op. cit., p. 395.
“American opinion on the landing”: Kennedy, op. cit., p. 299.
“One got the impression”: AI Lord Carrington.
“Once he and his platoon”: AI Vitold Kubashevsky.
“When correspondents reported”: Quoted Alexander Werth, Russia at War (Barrie & Rockcliffe: 1964), p. 898.
“A watching six-year-old”: AI Dr. Galya Vinogradova.
“Yet a Western correspondent”: Werth, op. cit., p. 863.
“A recent American study”: Williamson Murray and Allan R. Millett, A War to Be Won (Harvard University Press: 2000), p. 451.
“What were you looking for”: Michel Sebastian, Journals 1935–44 (Heinemann: 2001), p. 618.
“In Bucharest, the Rumanian”: Ibid., p. 611.
“Ils ne payent pas”: Ibid., p. 610.
“Russians had a stereotype”: Yelena Senyavshaya, Journal Voenno-Istorichesky Archiv, no. 2 (26), 2000, p. 116.
“I can’t say we liked”: Ibid.
“Come on, we said”: Ibid., p. 119.
“Lieutenant Valentin Krulik”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“As Major Dmitry Kalafati”: AI Dmitry Kalafati.
“Lieutenant Vladimir Gormin”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“I was indignant that”: AI Yulia Pozdnyakova.
“Three of our agents”: 1.14.45, RSA Stalin files.
“I do not believe that”: Quoted Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men (Faber: 1986), p. 244.
“The British would take”: FDR to Stettinius, 3.17.45.
“We spoke very little”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“It was a pity”: AI Pavel Nikiforov.
“Complex feelings of insecurity”: Orlando Figes, Natasha’s Dance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2002), p. 63.
“They are aware”: Sebastian, op. cit., p. 618.
“I was filled with”: Milovan Djilas, Wartime (Secker & Warburg: 1980), p. 391.
“John Erickson, British”: John Erickson, The Road to Berlin (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1983), p. 314.
“In those days”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“Normandy had been”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“We thought: that’s it”: Jackson letter to the author, 8.10.2001.
“we were told that”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“Everything is going”: George Turner-Cain Diary, LHA.
“A Jerry gives himself”: John M. Thorpe, unpublished MS “A Soldier’s Tale,” G. P. B. Roberts Papers, LHA.
“Dear Mum”: Gow Papers, IWM, Cons. shelf.
“We could not believe our eyes”: Rudolf Lehmann and Ralf Tiemann, The Leibstandarte, Parts iv/1 and iv/2: (J. J. Fedorowicz Publishing: 1993), p. 237.
“Well, that’s it then”: AI Fritz van den Broek.
“It was a glorious feeling”: AI Theodore Wempe.
“This period was made up”: Brigadier J. S. W. Stone, MS, LHA.
“As we went across France”: Hansen Papers, box 39a, USAMHI.
“Early victory in”: H. G. Nicholas ed., Washington Despatches 1941–45 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 1981), p. 418.
“The Allied Control Commission”: F. S. V. Donnison, Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe 1944–46 (HMSO: 1961), p. 72.
“Until mid-September”: Pogue, op. cit., p. 189.
“It is at least as likely”: Quoted F. H. Hinsley and others, British Intelligence in the Second World War, vol. iii, part 2 (HMSO: 1988), p. 179.
“[It] is tolerably certain”: Ibid.
“Brad believes the Germans”: Hansen Diary, USAMHI.
“The Allies should be”: Second Army, MD.
“Our only hope”: Ibid.
“We were amazed that”: AI Helmut Günther.
“For the thousands locked up”: Von Stemann, unpublished MS, IWM, p. 182.
“and then the war will be over”: Ibid., p. 185.
“It is dreadful to read”: Second Army MD.
“My nerves are bad”: Ibid.
“Today is Sunday”: Ibid.
“Asked whether they still believed”: Ibid.
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