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“Among the British formations”: AI Kenneth Pollitt.
“Wilhelmina Helder, a twenty-year-old”: AI Wilhelmina Helder.
“The regiment had seldom been”: A. R. Leakey, unpublished MS, “Nine Lives,” LHA.
“hard fighting and heavy casualties”: Turner-Cain MS, op. cit.
“Major-General ‘Pip’ Roberts”: Roberts, op. cit., p. 214.
“It was you, Prime Minister”: W. F. Deedes, private information to the author, based on a conversation with Montgomery c. 1965.
“The Sketch had a big write-up”: Turner-Cain MS, op. cit.
“When you analyse how difficult”: Hansen Papers, box 391, USAMHI.
“The British have had tough”: Hansen Diary, 10.31.44, USAMHI.
“what was at this stage”: Wilmot, op. cit., p. 527.
“rather depressed at the state”: PRO, CAB106/1124, Ramsay Diary.
“Some people begin to believe”: Quoted Henri van der Zee, The Hunger Winter (Norman & Hobhouse: 1982), p. 68.
“There was a change of mood”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“We don’t want any Victoria”: AI Roy Dixon.
“I’d simply got into a state”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“Two mornings in succession”: AI Denis Thomas.
“After the airborne operation”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“I was terribly impressed by”: AI Roy Dixon.
“There was something happening all”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“A British sniper watched”: Lieutenant Peter Downward, unpublished narrative lent to the author, p. 102.
“It is believed that certain”: “Combat Fatigue,” USAMHI, D769AZ no. 91 c.4.
“I had his head spot”: Downward MS, op. cit., p. 116.
“Corporal Stan Proctor was proudly”: Stan Proctor, A Quiet Little Boy Goes to War (Dragon Print Centre: 1996), p. 149.
“Dr. David Tibbs was driving”: AI David Tibbs.
“I could worry every minute”: Harold Fennema, unpublished MS, “What did you do in the war, Daddy?,” SA.
“Corporal Iolo Lewis put his hand”: AI Iolo Lewis.
“I saw a line of soldiers”: Cropper, op. cit., p. 52.
“During the Scheldt battle”: Carl Shilleto, The Fighting 52nd Recce (Eskdale Publishing: 2001), p. 45.
“I figured somebody had to do it”: Cooper, op. cit., p. 243.
“All the ones who said before”: AI Roy Dixon.
“A squadron commander of 2nd Fife”: Steel-Brownlie MS, IWM, 92/37/1.
“The British soldier is a little slow”: PRO, WO208/3111.
“Propaganda loudspeakers were”: PRO, WO106/43480.
“Few thought that Germany”: PRO, WO218/311, 1.17.45.
“We felt they were more”: AI Patrick Hennessy.
“always felt conscious that”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“Until a very late stage”: Times Literary Supplement, 4.21.78.
“Operation Clipper on 18 November”: PRO, WO106/4348.
“The Allies burdened themselves”: Ruppenthal, op. cit., passim.
“They seemed to be much more”: Gavin MS, op. cit., p. 91.
“I just accepted how long”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Carver.
“Every day I feel older”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 646, 1.18.45.
“The outside world didn’t”: AI W. F. Deedes.
“There was always someone”: AI Captain “Dim” Robbins.
“[Tom] Driberg—Austrian”: Letter in Montgomery Papers, quoted Nigel Ham-ilton, Monty: The Field Marshal (Hamish Hamilton: 1986), p. 278.
“The contrast with our own”: AI John Denison.
“A private of the Duke of Cornwall’s”: George Taylor, Infantry Colonel (privately published: 1990), p. 61.
“The Americans seemed”: AI Lord Carrington.
“We thought of the Americans”: AI General Sir David Fraser.
“Funny lot the Americans”: AI Patrick Hennessy.
“The Americans are least good”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“a general feeling that”: Berlitz MS, author’s collection.
“Many men are weak”: PRO, WO208/3111.
“It is very difficult”: PRO, CAB106/1069.
“Deficiencies in infantry”: PRO, WO205/152.
“I don’t think this outfit”: Fennema MS, op. cit., SA.
“A very pleasant day”: Proctor, op. cit., p. 110.
“A British officer described”: AI John Denison.
“We thought about girls”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“There is a feeling of optimism”: PRO, CAB106/1068.
“This is a larger total”: Arch Dempsey Papers, LHA.
CHAPTER SIX: GERMANY BESIEGED
“Lieutenant Leopold Goesse”: AI Leopold Goesse.
“Heinz Knoke, a Luftwaffe”: Heinz Knoke, I Flew for the Führer (Evans: 1979), p. 44.
“Eleonore Burgsdorf and her family