Armageddon - Max Hastings [391]
“I think I see daylight now”: PRO, CAB106/1071.
“I said he would probably find it”: Ibid.
“Our outfit broke”: AI John Capano.
“My first reaction was fear”: Devitt, op. cit., p. 181.
“The Germans’ morale”: AI Hal McCown.
“There was an other-worldly”: Alan Moorehead, Eclipse (Granta: 2000), p. 217.
“This is not going to be easy”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“The fact that the Hun”: Quoted Tedder, op. cit., p. 629.
“The situation is normal”: Ridgway Papers, box 5A, USAMHI.
“I want every man imbued”: Ibid.
“At least one man of the 75th”: Harold Lindstrom MS, SA.
“When the U.S. 743rd Tank”: Folkestad, op. cit., p. 75.
“Felix had been relieved to see”: Felix, op. cit.
“I don’t represent any general”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“As the sun came out”: AI Iolo Lewis.
“Since 24 December Guderian”: Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader (Michael Joseph: 1952), p. 383.
“Provided the two ‘gateposts’ ”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 637, 12.21.44.
“It’s a fickle world”: Gay Diary, op. cit.
“I’m sure that, 50 years”: Ibid., p. 161.
“Their [the British] press”: Hansen Diary, op. cit.
“Without haste and without any trace”: Second Army MD.
“Monty did a good job”: Bigland, op. cit., pp. 82–3.
“The Arnold–King–Marshall”: PM’s personal minute, D.218/4, 7.6.44, Churchill Papers 20/153, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 843.
“You pay him too high”: Colville, op. cit., 2.23.45.
“Hobbs said apologetically that”: Ridgway Papers, box 5A, XVIII Corps conference, 1.13.45, USAMHI.
“We are training”: Gavin Diary, op. cit.
“If only this idiotic war”: Second Army MD, 1.17.45.
“mostly Ukrainians who do not even”: Ibid.
“didn’t so much lose heart”: DuPuy Papers, op. cit.
“That’s it—we’ve lost the war”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“The enemy can claim to have wrested”: Second Army MD.
“This was the coldest night”: Folkestad, op. cit., p. 84.
“Sergeant Clifford Laski”: NA, RG492–322 box 6.
“Staff-Sergeant Charles Skelnar’s”: Skelnar MS, op. cit., SA.
“I felt proud”: AI George Sheppard.
“Interestingly, a British expert”: Reynolds, op. cit., p. 135.
“There was a serious discussion”: Hansen Papers, box 40B, USAMHI.
“During the half-hearted”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 633.
“considerably retarded the”: Alanbrooke, op. cit., p. 677, 3.25.45.
“Upon the conclusion of”: “Strategy in North-West Europe,” op. cit., USAMHI.
“strong defensive positions”: Report of the General Board of U.S. Forces in ETO, “Strategy of the Campaign in Western Europe 1944–45,” USAMHI.
CHAPTER NINE: STALIN’S OFFENSIVE
“Zhukov was very popular”: AI Anatoly Osminov.
“Lieutenant Vasily Filimonenko”: AI Vasily Filimonenko.
“Everyone was terrified”: AI Evsei Igolnik.
“Stalin won the war”: AI Nikolai Ponomarev.
“He saved the Soviet state”: AI Fyodor Romanovsky.
“Is there no one to rid”: AI Nikolai Senkevich.
“We were fighting for our”: AI Anna Nikyunas.
“You should obey Stalin”: AI Yury Ryakhovsky.
“I often prayed to God”: AI Nikolai Ponomarev.
“but many men crossed”: AI Anatoly Osminov.
“We all stand together”: AI Alexander Sergeev.
“Seventeen-year-old Yulia”: AI Yulia Pozdnyakova.
“saying that he refused”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 377.
“If something happens down there”: Helmut Heiber and David M. Glantz, Hitler and his Generals (Greenhill: 2002), p. 651.
“A very stupid disposition”: Tedder, op. cit., p. 647.
“Sergeant Nikolai Timoshenko”: AI Nikolai Timoshenko.
“A deserter from 118th”: BA, RH2/319.
“Yulia Pozdnyakova, a signaller”: AI Yulia Pozdnyakova.
“In January 1945 we could see”: AI Nikolai Ponomarev.
“Lieutenant Valentin Krulik’s unit”: AI Valentin Krulik.
“On 11 January, an OKW report”: BA, RH2/331B.
“When you haven’t had”: Letter lent to the author by Ursula Salzer.
“The Eastern Front is”: Guderian, op. cit., p. 387.
“On 12 January”: PRO, WO106/5924.
“May all good fortune”: 1.9.45, quoted Gilbert, op. cit., p. 1143.
“We now had to pay for”: Richardson and Friedlin, op. cit., p. 251.
“In the trenches, we all knew”: AI Alexandr Sergeev.
“Morale was very high”: AI Gennady