Armageddon - Max Hastings [395]
“We must make certain”: Alfred D. Chandler, Papers of Eisenhower, vol. iv (Johns Hopkins University Press: 1970), p. 2438.
“The Germans appear to be beaten”: Gavin Diary, op. cit.
“Poor discipline was reflected”: “Trench Foot,” USAMHI, D769AZ no. 94 c.3.
“On 6 February, the Wehrmacht”: BA, RH2/8496.
“Our battery was still fully equipped”: AI Karl Godau.
“Panzer Lehr Division found”: Helmut Ritgen, Die Geschilhte der Panzer Lehr Division im Western 1944–45 (Stuttgart: Motorbuch Verlag, 1979), p. 276.
“We had to blow them up”: Helmut Günther, Von der Hitler-Jugend zur Waffen SS (Coburg: Nation Europa Verlag, 2001), p. 252.
“It was ‘subsistence warfare’ ”: AI George Schwemmer.
“It is essential that the change”: BA, RH2/328.
“When I reported back to my commander”: Helmut Schmidt, Kindheit und Jugend unter Hitler (Berlin: Siedler, 1992), p. 233.
“My flashlight revealed his greatly”: Howard M. Randall, War Chronicle (Sunbelt Media: 1999), p. 7.
“Yet Lieutenant Tony Moody”: AI Tony Moody.
“The casualties themselves”: Brenda McBryde, A Nurse’s War (Chatto & Windus: 1979), pp. 149–50.
“Tell them to go to hell”: Martin Blumenson, The Patton Papers, vol. ii (Houghton Mifflin: 1974), p. 629.
“Private Charles Felix was at a battalion”: Felix, op. cit., p. 65.
“He overdid it”: Gay Diary, op. cit., 2.1.45.
“A few of the men we had to put”: DuPuy, op. cit.
“Lieutenant William Devitt of the 330th”: Devitt, op. cit., p. 128.
“Sergeant Tony Carullo’s”: AI Tony Carullo.
“When the U.S. 90th Division”: NA, RG492–332, box 10.
“There was something a bit scary”: Interview with John S. D. Eisenhower, World War II, May 1994.
“For a victorious army”: NA, RG492–332, box 10.
“Everybody hated Veritable”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Carver.
“Private David Williams of the 104th”: David Williams MS, IWM, 98/3/1.
“It has been quite bloody”: Turner-Cain MS, op. cit.
“Private Frank Rumph dashed”: Frank Rumph, unpublished MS, SA.
“The Reichswald was the nastiest”: AI Field-Marshal Lord Bramall.
“at the last stage before frostbite”: Len Stokes, MS Diary, IWM.
“What’s up, Frank?”: Dai Evans, MS, IWM, 92/37/1.
“It is tough going”: PRO, CAB106/1071.
“It was the bravest thing”: AI Cliff Pettit.
“Every night, we kept wondering”: AI John Langdon.
“Bomb craters and fallen trees”: Captain J. L. J. Meredith, The Story of the Seventh Battalion, the Somerset Light Infantry (no publisher: 1945), p. 132.
“any action deserving of the VC”: Sir Arthur Harris to the author, 8.7.77.
“As usual, the rough plan”: Peter White, With the Focks (Sutton: 2001), p. 199.
“one young German still firing”: War History of the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers (Halle: 1946), p. 143.
“of nuisance value only”: White, op. cit., p. 219.
“There was never an easy way”: AI Cliff Pettit and The Regimental Journal of the Cameronians, 1997.
“I do loathe all this destruction”: General Sir David Fraser, Wars and Shadows (Penguin: 2002), p. 250.
“The reputation of the Waffen SS”: NA, RG492–332, box 4.
“Twenty-two-year-old Katharina Minniger”: AI Katharina Minniger.
“They were in a terrible state”: AI Hildegarde Platten.
“the farmer went into a spiel”: Evans MS, op. cit.
“undue acceptance of parental authority”: PRO, WO106/5924, CI, Newssheet no. 17.
“this was the one period of my life”: AI Henry Kissinger.
“Helmut Lott, a fifteen-year-old”: AI Helmut Lott.
“on 16 March Dr. Alfred Meyer”: PRO, WO106/5924.
“I was dismayed to look out”: AI Lord Carrington.
“I’m going to end up defending”: AI Karl Godau.
“Those who weaken must be”: AI Rolf-Helmut Schröder.
“Lieutenant Tony Saurma’s loader”: AI Tony Saurma.
“Most German soldiers realize”: RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, p. 28.
“I have four divisions, facing 22 Soviet”: BA, RH2/333.
“On 13 March, the Luftwaffe’s”: Ibid.
“The whole cavalcade looked like”: Henry Metelmann, Through Hell for Hitler (Spellmount: 2001), pp. 185–6.
“Since the issue”: Second Army MD.
“Likewise Lieutenant Hummel”: RMDA, vol. xv 4/5, p. 64.
“It fills me with utter gloom”: Fraser, op. cit., pp. 248–9.
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