Armageddon - Max Hastings [382]
“Eugen Ernst”: AI Stolten.
“An American survey of”: Quoted Omer Bartov, Hitler’s Army (Oxford University Press: 1991), p. 144.
“We reached a point where”: Quoted Michael Reynolds, Men of Steel (Spellmount: 1999), p. 39.
“We recognized that”: AI Bruno Bochum.
“Throughout August”: Charles Richardson, Send for Freddie (Kimber: 1987), p. 164.
“Both Antwerp and Rotterdam”: L. F. Ellis, Victory in the West, vol. ii (HMSO: 1968), p. 5.
“Had any indication been given”: G. P. B. Roberts, From the Desert to the Baltic (Kimber: 1987), p. 212.
“quite unfit to command troops”: BLM to Commodore William Hayes, quoted Jeffrey Williams, The Long Left Flank (Leo Cooper: 1985), p. 22.
“The C-in-C intimated”: Crerar Papers, quoted ibid., p. 35.
“Crerar refused to raise the issue”: Ibid., p. 38.
“a bad mistake—I underestimated”: Field-Marshal the Viscount Montgomery, Memoirs (Collins: 1958), p. 297.
“blamed himself specifically”: Richardson, op. cit., p. 161.
“grew steadily more”: Ibid., p. 166.
“Transport, signals and heavy”: Second Army MD.
“My men can eat their belts”: Murray and Millett, op. cit., p. 433.
“In September, 1,400”: David Fletcher, British Military Transport (HMSO: 1956), p. 109.
“utter disregard of property”: 1.23.45, NA, RG492–332, box 12.
“In the ten days ending”: PRO, WO106/4348.
“I am being attacked”: Quoted Carlo d’Este, Patton: A Genius for War (Harper-Collins: 1995), p. 662.
“The movement naturally produced”: Ronald Ruppenthal, The Logistical Support of the Armies, vol. ii (Department of the Army: 1959), p. 31.
“lethargy and smugness”: Ibid., p. 349.
“Lee . . . never ceased”: Ibid., p. 362.
“an efficient little shit”: C. P. Stacey, A Date with History (Deneau: 1984), p. 135.
“The difference between him”: Goronwy Rees, A Bundle of Sensations (London: 1960), p. 174.
“We had total faith”: AI Roy Dixon.
“I’ve just been sacked”: O’Connor MSS 11/14, LHA.
“A member of Montgomery’s staff”: T. E. B. Howarth private communication to the author. Howarth, one of Montgomery’s liaison officers, edited a collection of personal reminiscences about the field-marshal, Monty at Close Quarters (Leo Cooper: 1985). He told me the above story, expressing regret that he had felt obliged to exclude it from the anthology, “because I don’t think the world’s quite ready for it yet.” I am happy to remedy the omission.
“was sowing the seeds”: Lord Tedder, With Prejudice (Cassell: 1966), p. 586.
“There was a confusion of”: Richardson, op. cit., p. 163.
“to hustle all”: Harry Butcher, My Three Years with Eisenhower (Simon & Schuster: 1946), p. 551.
“Have you not got”: Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939–1945 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson: 2001), p. 226.
“Whatever balls-ups”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“almost with a physical pain”: Ladislas Farago, Patton: Ordeal and Triumph (Dell Books: 1979), p. 647.
“I am no Montgomery-lover”: WBS to DDE, 4.1.48, Smith Papers quoted Carlo d’Este, Eisenhower (HarperCollins: 2003), p. 581.
“Brad and Patton agree”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“The national press is”: Turner-Cain Diary, op. cit.
“My own choice of”: DDE to BLM, 9.20.44, Papers of Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery.
CHAPTER TWO: THE BRIDGES TO ARNHEM
“No wife or mother”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. v, Closing The Ring (Cassell: 1952), p. 583.
“Brereton”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“I am for the latter”: General James Gavin Diary, box 8, USAMHI.
“This is the end”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“Yet when Bedell-Smith”: Charles B. MacDonald, The Siegfried Line Campaign (Office of the Chief of Military History: 1963), p. 122.
“[Browning] unquestionably lacks”: Gavin Diary, op. cit.
“We called it Operation KCB”: AI John Killick.
“It looks very rough”: Gavin Diary, op. cit., 9.12.44.
“De Guingand telephoned”: Richardson, op. cit., p. 164.
“Montgomery’s jealousy of”: AI General Sir David Fraser.
“We feared we’d never”: AI Bob Peatling.
“the biggest and thickest men”: AI Jack Reynolds.
“There is no doubt”: Julius Neave Diary, IWM, 98/23/1.
“we were young”: AI John Killick.