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p. 461 ‘were a pack of cowards ...’,Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, ETHINT 66
Kluge’s letter to Hitler, quoted in Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1986, pp. 174-7
p. 464 ‘able to drive by car ...’, Generalmajor Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, ETHINT 59
shape of Falaise pocket, General Mahlmann, 353rd Infantry Division, FMS A-984
II Panzer Corps in Forêt de Gouffern, Eberbach, FMS A-922
‘In other words ...’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
panzer soldier playing Viennese waltzes, Marcel Labussière, MdC TE 471
‘We have had a warm welcome . . .’, Captain S. Beck, 18 August, MdC TE 570
‘While I was talking to the Brigadier . . .’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 19 August, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T 501
p. 465 1st Polish Armoured Division reorganizes, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
Model’s conference on 18 August, Eberbach, FMS A-922, and Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231 p. 466 ‘The black mushrooms ...’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
‘We rippled the rockets ...’, Michael Veitch, Tom Hall, Sydney, 2006, p. 113
‘On the road great heaps . . .’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, FMS A-903
Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
Allied air claims on 18 August, Leigh-Mallory, TNA CAB 106/980
Operational Research Section, Report No. 15, ‘Enemy Casualties in Vehicles and Equipment in the Retreat from Normandy to the Seine’, AHB
p. 467 ‘Take cover, boys, they may be ours!’ Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206
‘some British armored vehicles ...’, NA II 407/427/24143
p. 468 ‘They were excellent fighters ...’, Lieutenant George W. Godfrey, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24240
‘tidying up official correspondence’, quoted in Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 243
‘The roads were blocked ...’, Hans Höller, 21st Panzer-Division, MdeC TE 98
‘In their faces one could read ...’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
p. 469 ‘Fertigmachen zum Abmarsch’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
escape of General Meindl and paratroops, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 470 ‘clear and serene’, Generalmajor Gerhard Müller, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS B-162
p. 471 ‘People, horses, vehicles ...’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS A-903
‘This was the signal....’, Generalmajor Freiherr Rudolf von Gersdorff, FMS A-919
‘It was a gunner’s dream . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/24242
p. 472 ‘The Polish soldier fights ...’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
‘luck gave the 10th Cavalry Brigade ...’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
capture of General Elfeldt, Captain A. Potozynski, 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, SWWEC LEEWW 2000.327
Simonds and Kitching, Copp, pp. 249-50 p. 473 Hauptmann Werner, III Battalion, Regiment Der Führer, 2nd SS Panzer-Division Das Reich, MdC TE 158
SS officer saved by Canadian officer, Herbert Ronstedt, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, BA-MA MSg 2/3225
Polish tanks near northern Hill 262, Hubert Meyer, BA-MA MSg 2/4832
‘Oh it’s the old man’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 475 ‘German attempts, more or less . . .’, SHD-DAT 11 P 221
‘the sixty-sixth and last day . . .’, MdC TE 149
Polish losses in Normandy, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
p. 476 over 2,000 men per division had escaped, Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
‘[The] Yanks say ...’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC 501 T
‘A boy of about ten years ...’, 2nd Lieutenant Roy J. Bolen, 38 Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, NA II 407/427/24240
‘The roads were choked with wreckage ...’, Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot, London, 1982, p. 129
‘The horses seemed almost more pitiful’, Kingsley Amis, Memoirs, London, 1991, p. 221
p. 477 the cossack squadron, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer