Armageddon - Max Hastings [386]
“The rule of war is”: AI Nikolai Timoshenko.
“We killed prisoners just”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“There was no serious”: AI Pavel Nikiforov.
“Vitold Kubashevsky hated”: AI Vitold Kubashevsky.
“They are completely shameless”: Quoted Senyavshaya, op. cit., p. 22.
“Political officers held”: Ibid., p. 28.
“Lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov’s orderly”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“long periods of humility”: Figes, op. cit., p. 167.
“A German doctor”: Hans von Lehndorff, East Prussian Diary (Oswald Woolf: 1963), pp. 114–15.
“I always felt that I knew”: Report of 1/24 Panzer Regiment, quoted Jentz, Pan-zertruppen, op. cit., p. 223.
“this incredible wall of fire”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“Of course the Red Army”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“The Russians didn’t think”: AI Tony Saurma.
“The Russians were not good soldiers”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“The Russian—that pig—has”: Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz eds., Hitler and His Generals (military conference records), (Greenhill: 2002), military conference, 1.9.45, p. 590.
“Private Vitold Kubashevsky”: AI Vitold Kubashevsky.
“I was not surprised the Germans”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“They were wonderful”: AI Nikolai Timoshenko.
“a land so flat”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“The NKVD claimed that”: RSA, Stalin files shelf 1–1 box 16.
“[Russian] soldiers’ conduct”: Gabriel Temkin, My Just War (Presidio: 1998), pp. 200–1.
“Oelmer violently protested”: Quoted Jentz, Panzertruppen, op. cit., p. 221.
“Major Dmitry Kalafati”: AI Dmitry Kalafati.
“Because of the mountainous terrain”: RMDA, vol. xv 3(1), p. 463.
“Between 8 September and”: Colonel-General G. F. Krivosheev ed., Grif Setretnosti Snyat (Moscow: 1993).
“This war is not as in”: Djilas, op. cit., p. 398.
“For some reason”: RSA, Stalin files.
“On 31 December, he declared”: RSA, Stalin files, box 14/3.
“Suddenly the Major raised”: Alexander Klein, Ulikbi Nevoli, p. 396, quoted Applebaum, op. cit., p. 400.
“Stalin issued an order”: Stalin order of 1.11.45, RSA Stalin files, shelf 1–1 file 28.
“Captain Vasily Krylov”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“Twenty-one-year-old”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“The men of the Red Army”: I should acknowledge a debt to Orlando Figes, op. cit., for many observations about Russian culture and thought.
“It is when they sing”: Von Lehndorff, op. cit., p. 134.
“Vitold Kubashevsky remarked”: AI Vitold Kubashevsky.
“One night in Yugoslavia”: AI Leopold Goesse.
“One has to work and work”: RMDA, vol. xv 3(1), p. 241.
“But you got used to it”: AI Anatoly Osminov.
“My corporal often saved me”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“If you got the wrong”: AI Pavel Nikiforov.
“The T-34 was not”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“Vasily Kudryashov’s T-34”: Ibid.
“and all sorts of other things”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“Orders were never”: AI Alexandr Sergeev.
“Ninety per cent”: AI Gennady Klimenko.
“The statistics were”: AI Vladimir Gormin.
“You should know that”: Senyavshaya, op. cit., p. 18.
“I had so much hatred”: Ibid., p. 37.
“War and women in trenches”: Temkin, op. cit., p. 202.
“Abortions at the front”: AI Nikolai Senkevich.
“Whole trainloads of”: AI Gennady Klimenko.
“Every senior officer”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“Corporal Anna Nikyunas”: AI Anna Nikyunas.
“Vasily Krylov was manning”: AI Vasily Krylov.
“At first, it all seemed”: AI Natalia Ivanova.
“A soldier who distinguishes”: Orders of the State Defence Committee of the USSR, published Moscow, 1997.
“I once watched a penal”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“The commander of Anatoly”: AI Anatoly Osminov.
“One felt no pity”: AI Vitold Kubashevsky.
“I saw him crouching”: Temkin, op. cit., p. 182.
“I went away a boy”: AI Vasily Kudryashov.
“It was a question of making”: AIs Nikolai Timoshenko, Nikolai Senkevich.
CHAPTER FIVE: WINTER QUARTERS
“I was never able to convince”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 600.
“We had five divisions”: Whitaker and Whitaker, op. cit., p. 217.
“ ‘Unfortunately,’ wrote the colonel later”: Ibid., p. 194.
“ ‘Battle morale’ is definitely not”: Quoted Williams, op. cit., p. 135.
“Living conditions at the front”: Will R. Bird, North Shore Regiment (Brunswick Press: 1963), p. 446.