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‘broke down’, Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway, SWWEC T689
p. 188 ‘He is not very impressive . . .’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 461
Dempsey, see Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy, New York, 1983, p. 60
p. 189 ‘You’ll get a shock . . .’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story, privately printed, undated, p. 29
‘Bucknall was very weak’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945, London, 2001, p. 538 (7 April)
Bucknall and Bayeux, LHCMA, Liddell Hart 11/1944/36
p. 190 General Maxwell D. Taylor, SODP p. 191 entry into Villers-Bocage, M. Diguet, MdC TE 220
‘We have only one . . .’, Patrick Agte, Michael Wittmann, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2006, p. 354
p. 192 11th Hussars and prisoner from 2nd Panzer-Division, Dudley Clarke, The Eleventh at War, London, 1952, p. 339; and Myles Hildyard, who says in his diary that they strangled one guard and seized the other
Ultra on 2nd Panzer-Division, TNA KV 7707
p. 193 artillery regiment firing airbursts, NA II 407/427/24170
Aunay-sur-Odon, Abbé André Paul, MdC TE 21
p. 194 ‘The fighting in the west . . .’, 15 June, Unteroffizier Leopold L., 25 644 = 5.Kp./Pz.Rgt.3, 2.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
‘131 Brigade . . .’, Myles Hildyard diary, 19 June
‘a very poor showing . . .’, Major General G. L. Verney diary, quoted in D’Este, pp. 272-4
‘The famous Desert Rats . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
p. 195 ‘it was no good grousing . . .’, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Sharpshooter, Fleet Hargate, 2006, p. 109
‘design fault’, Lieutenant General Richard O’Connor to Churchill, 5 May, LHCMA O’Connor 5/2/39
‘a Tiger and Panther complex’, letter, 12 June, TNA WO205/5B
‘We are outshot . . .’, Algiers, 23 August 1943, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower, London, 1946, p. 339
‘The squadron left . . .’, anonymous diary entry, 11 June, MdC TE 396
Eisenhower to Marshall, Brigadier Joseph A. Holly, 5 July, PDDE, p. 1973
p. 196 ‘I have received . . .’, No. 695, Prime Minister to President, 9 June, TNA PREM 3/472
‘passed convoys...’, Alanbrooke, pp. 556-7 (12 June)
p. 197 ‘There has been a recognizable . . .’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘We went and had . . .’, TNA PREM 3/ 339/7
HMS Ramillies, Admiral G. B. Middleton, IWM 01/2/1
‘a slight display . . .’ and ‘General de Gaulle’s personal flag . . .’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, 16 June, TNA ADM 1/16018
p. 198 ‘Has it occurred . . .’, quoted in Henri Amouroux, La grande histoire, Vol. VIII, p. 546, and Robert Aron, Histoire de la Libération de la France, Paris, 1959, p. 78
‘did little to ingratiate them . . .’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘Monsieur le curé . . .’, Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle - Le Rebelle, Paris, 1984, p. 779
p. 199 ‘hated Laval, but not Pétain’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, p. 115
‘has left behind in Bayeux . . .’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
p. 200 ‘In my opinion we should . . .’, No. 561, President to Prime Minister, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘There is not a scrap . . .’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
‘Trojan horse’, Aron, p. 77
‘Le panorama . . .’, MdC TE 195 p. 201 ‘I simply cannot . . .’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
Café owner, Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42
‘in the Middle Ages’, MdC TE 42 p. 202 Secours National, Céline Coantic-Dormoy, MdC TE 281
‘The English since . . .’ Le Dily diary, 11 June, MdC TE 143
‘le troc’, Claude Guillotin, 1944, ‘L’aventure de mes quinze ans’, Le Fresne-Camilly, MdC TE 397
p. 203 ‘a senior officer of the Military Police . . .’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477
‘during the morning . . .’, MdC TE 144
‘musical chairs’ and ‘Now there’s no need . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 205 Red Army, see Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova (eds.), A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941- 1945, London, 2005, p. 109
‘The whole world . . .’, SS Untersturmführer Herbert E., 2.Kp./Nachr.Abt.SS. Pz.Div. ‘Hohenstaufen