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‘The Teutonic tendency . . .’, Captain Elmer G. Koehler, Battalion surgeon, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/24242
p. 220 ‘That was quite . . .’, Clayton Storeby, 326th Airborne Engineer Battalion, NWWIIM-EC
‘The Germans have left . . .’, Pogue, p. 135
‘amassive under ground wine cellar’, Bradley, p. 314
Hitler and Schlieben, General Warlimont, ETHINT 1
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OPERATION EPSOM
p. 223 ‘Field Marshal Rommel is . . .’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247
Channel Islands and Nebelwerfer Brigades, General Warlimont, ETHINT 4
p. 224 ‘Jungle Tiger Tactics’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
‘[Hitler] looked unhealthy . . .’, Speidel, FMS C-017. The description of this meeting is based on the accounts by Speidel, Rundstedt (FMS B-633), Blumentritt, chief of staff OB West (FMS B-284), and Hitler’s Luftwaffe adjutant, Nicolaus von Below (Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937-1945, Mainz, 1980)
p. 225 withdrawal of six to ten miles and ‘a long auto-suggestive speech’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
‘That was the last thing . . .’, Below, p. 375
‘everything would depend . . .’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284 p. 226 ‘What principally bothers . . .’, Mollie Panter-Downes, London War Notes, London, 1971, pp. 330-31
‘eerie howl of sirens’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield, NWWIIM-EC
War Cabinet, 16 June, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/38
‘These things . . .’, Wing Commander R. Beamont, SWWEC T537
p. 227 Director General of Gendarmerie’s report, General Martin, AN AJ/41/56
‘with a pathetic wail . . .’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945, London, 2001, p. 562 (27 June)
Agent ‘Lector’, TNA HW 40/6
p. 228 ‘Battle is going well . . .’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/8
‘We formed up . . .’, G. Steer, 1/4th
King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644
p. 229 ‘There’s no need to tell Ike’, LHCMA, LHP/1/230/22-23a p. 231 ‘The German trick . . .’, Peter Rubie, CWM/MCG 58A 1 40.7
‘on turning a corner . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
‘The order came to us . . .’, G. Steer 1/ 4th King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, SWWEC 2002.1644
p. 232 Ultra on Panzer Lehr, 27 June, TNA KV 9826
‘like strange fungi . . .’, John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy, London, 1992, p. 174
‘were much amused . . .’, Aidan Sprot, Swifter than Eagles, Edinburgh, 1998, p. 120 ‘It’s a vision . . .’, Félix Drougard, MdC TE 3
p. 233 ‘the enemy which has . . .’, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
p. 234 ‘die grosse Chance’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831
Ultra, 29 June, XL 70, see Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West, New York, 1979, p. 82
Operation Epsom, one of the best accounts is in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy, New York, 1983
p. 235 ‘General talked about . . .’, Myles Hildyard diary, 22 June
‘the armchair strategists . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
p. 236 ‘returned in a vile humour’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284
‘told him bluntly...’, Blumentritt, ETHINT 73
‘because of the effect . . .’, General der Panzertruppen Eberbach, FMS A-922
p. 237 ‘become imbued . . .’, Blumentritt, Chief of Staff OB West, FMS B-284
‘energetic, quick-witted...’, Speidel, FMS C-017
‘After a rather frosty . . .’, Speidel, FMS C-017
p. 238 ‘German tanks are superior . . .’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106
‘the British attacks . . .’, General Alfred Jodl, FMS A-913
‘jumped out of line . . .’, William Oatman, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
p. 240 ‘The effect of the major conflicts . . .’, Keitel and Jodl, FMS A-915
visit of Colonel Vassilievsky, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story, privately published, undated, p. 56
‘are still on the Soviet-German front’, Major General Galaktionov, Pravda, 23 June
‘We know where . . .’, Ilya Ehrenburg, ‘The West Wind’, Pravda, 11 June
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p. 242 ‘immediately deserted to the enemy’, Generalleutnant