D-Day_ The Battle for Normandy - Antony Beevor [285]
CAC Churchill Archive Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
CMH Center of Military History, Washington, DC
CRHQ Centre de Recherche d’Histoire Quantitative, University of Caen
CWM/MCG Canadian War Memorial/ Mémorial Canadien de la Guerre
DDEL Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, Abilene, Kansas
DTbA Deutsches Tagebucharchiv, Emmendingen
DWS Department of War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
ETHINT European Theater Historical Interrogations, 1945, USAMHI
FMS Foreign Military Studies, USAMHI
HP Harris Papers, RAF Museum, Hendon
IfZ Archiv des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte, Munich
IHTP-CNRS Reports from the German Military Commander in France and the synthesis of the reports from the French prefects 1940-44, edited by the German Historical Institute Paris and the Institut d’Histoire du Temps Présent, revised by Regina Delacor, Jürgen Finger, Peter Lieb, Vincent Viet and Florent Brayard
IMT International Military Tribunal
IWM Imperial War Museum archives, London
LHCMA Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, London
LofC Library of Congress, The Veterans’ History Project, Washington, DC
MdC Mémorial de Caen archives, Normandy
MHSA Montana Historical Society Archives
NA II National Archives II, College Park, Maryland
NAC/ANC National Archives of Canada/Archives Nationales du Canada
NWWIIM-EC National World War II Museum, Eisenhower Center archive, New Orleans
OCMH-FPP Office of the Chief of Military History, Forrest Pogue Papers, Forrest C. Pogue’s interview notes for Supreme Command, Washington, 1954, now with USAMHI
PDDE The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower, Vol. III, The War Years, edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Baltimore, MD, 1970
PP Portal Papers, Christ Church Library, Oxford
ROHA Rutgers Oral History Archive
SHD-DAT Service Historique de la Défense, Département de l’Armée de Terre, Vincennes
SODP Senior Officers’ Debriefing Program, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
SWWEC Second World War Experience Centre archive, Horsforth, Leeds
TNA The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office), Kew
USAMHI United States Army Military History Institute, US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
WLHUM Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
WWII VS World War II Veterans’ Survey, USAMHI
In addition the private diaries of the following people have been used:
Lieutenant Colonel Stanley Christopherson, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry
Lieutenant William Helm, 210 Field Ambulance, 177th Brigade, 59th Infantry Division
Captain Myles Hildyard, intelligence officer with 7th Armoured Division
Lieutenant T. T. Ritson, RHA
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THE DECISION
p. 2 ‘For heaven’s sake, Stagg’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord, London, 1971, p. 69
‘pre-D-Day jitters’, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower, London, 1946,
p. 479
p. 3 Plan Fortitude, TNA WO 219/5187
p. 4 ‘Garbo’, TNA KV 2/39-2/42 and 2/63-2/71
Ironside, TNA KV 2/2098
‘Bronx’, TNA KV 2/2098
destruction of airfields, Luftgau West France, TNA HW 1/2927
Bletchley watch system, TNA HW 8/86 p. 5 ‘Latest evidence suggests . . .’, TNA HW 40/6
‘my circus wagon’, Carlo D’Este, Eisenhower , New York, 2002, p. 518
‘to establish a belt . . .’, TNA WO 205/ 12
‘There is no doubt . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945, London, 2001, p. 575
p. 6 ‘Nice chap, no soldier’, Cornelius Ryan interview, Ohio University Library Department of Archives and Special Collections
‘national spectacles pervert . . .’, Alanbrooke, p. 575
‘My hat is worth ...’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor, London, 2006, p. 196-7
‘Monty is perhaps . . .’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/11
‘The bloody Durhams . . .’, Harry Moses, The Faithful Sixth, Durham, 1995, p. 270. I am most grateful to Miles d’Arcy-Irvine, Major Philip Windsor-Aubrey, Major C. Lawton, Harry Moses and Richard Atkinson for their help on this incident
p. 7 ‘unsatisfactory’, NA II 407/427/24132
‘hayseed expression ... pragmatic ...’, Martin Blumenson, The Battle of the Generals, New York, 1993, p. 35
p. 8 ‘made everyone