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Oradour, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, pp. 398-9
‘regions where a hideous . . .’, AN AJ/ 41/56
p. 167 ‘spray jobs’, Technical Sergeant Donald J. Walworth, 3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1stDivision,NA II 407/427/24242
‘were in fact facing . . .’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II, Washington, DC, 1951 p. 370
p. 168 ‘You people are always . . .’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
‘sly, underhand...’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 245
‘moderately high losses’, ibid., p. 247
p. 169 accusation against Heydte, FMS B-839; and Perrigault and Meister, p. 248
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p. 170 ‘communications between division . . .’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
‘honeycombed with trenches, NA II 407/ 427/24200
p. 171 ‘under his command . . .’, TNA WO 208/4363
1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Taganrog, Sönke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 344, n. 93
p. 172 ‘It has taken . . .’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
‘Little fish!’, Shulman interview with Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, August 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1988, p. 121
‘At a moment when . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
p. 173 ‘Fright reports’, Generalmajor Fritz Krämer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024
p. 174 ‘Action rear’, etc., Alastair Bannerman, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwicks, SWWEC 2001-819
Gruchy, Raymond Pouchin, MdC TE 86
Hitler Jugend in Cambes, Lieutenant, Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 175 ‘We were the first troops . . .’ and ‘After a very short time . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
p. 176 ‘fighter-bomber racecourse’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
Panzer Lehr losses, see H. Ritgen, Die Geschichte der Panzer-Lehr Division im Westen, 1944-1945, Stuttgart, 1979, p. 100, quoted in Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, p. 386
p. 177 ‘How can I live . . .’, ‘Aristocrats’, Keith Douglas, The Complete Poems, London, 2000, p. 117
‘I like you, sir’, Stuart Hills, By Tank into Normandy, London, 2002, p. 54
p. 178 ‘missed the psychological moment . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
‘Last time I was . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 179 ‘When I looked to the left . . .’, Unterscharführer Alois Morawetz, 3. Panzerkompanie, SS Panzer-Regiment 12, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., p. 188
‘I could have cried . . .’, ibid., p.191
p. 180 ‘He had tried to make . . .’, ibid., p.197
killing of prisoners in Normandy, TNA TS 26/856
‘about thirty Canadian . . .’, Nelly Quidot, MdC TE 228
killings at Abbaye d’Ardennes, Sergeant Frank Geoffrey, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, NWWIIM-EC
p. 181 ‘dare-devil’, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 163
Kurt Meyer executing Jews in Poland, ibid., p. 159
‘the men show signs . . .’, Ultra intercepts passed by ‘C’ to Churchill on 11 June, TNA HW 1/2927
location of headquarters of Panzer Group West, TNA KV 7171 and KV 7225
p. 182 ‘all personnel . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
p. 183 ‘a gutless bugger’, TNA WO 205/ 5D
p. 184 ‘pull the Germans . . .’, TNA WO 205/5B
‘Inaction and a defensive mentality . . .’, TNA PREM 3/339/1, p. 6
‘to assault to the west . . .’, LHCMA De Guingand 2/1/1-6
‘a peevish imperialism’, Army Group intelligence summary, 23 April 1944, TNA WO 205/532 (2)
‘to block the enemy’s . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
p. 185 ‘the key to Cherbourg’, General Omar Bradley, OCMH-FPP
‘By premature commitment . . .’, Generalmajor Fritz Krämer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024
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p. 187 ‘The fury of artillery ...’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings, London, 1987, p. 165
‘The smart, keen . . .’, ibid., p. 156
‘The thing that shocked . . .’, Major Peter Griffin, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, NAC/ANC R5067-0-0-E