Inferno - Max Hastings [429]
“Men of both armies”: ibid., p. 44.
“We were sitting up”: ibid., p. 46.
“I drew alongside”: Smith and Bierman, p. 110.
“You are an Australian”: Johnston, p. 56.
“The Australians regarded”: John McManners, Fusilier (Michael Russell, 2002), p. 67.
“I came to realise”: Arthur, p. 153.
“The flies plague us”: Smith and Bierman, p. 32.
“Even the climate”: Ostellino, p. 96, 5 August 1941.
“We … slowly make ourselves”: Smith and Bierman, p. 134.
“Smooth yellow sand”: Alastair Borthwick, Battalion (Baton Wicks, 1994), p. 39.
“The chief occupation”: McManners, p. 46.
“You would think it”: Ostellino, p. 54, 14 March 1941.
“The unreality had”: Artemis Cooper, Cairo in the War (Hamish Hamilton, 1989), p. 80.
“Sweat shining, hair bleached”: ibid., p. 117.
“Groppi’s at Cairo”: McManners, p. 85.
“not because of”: Vittorio Vallicella, Diario di Guerra da El Alamein alla tragica ritirata 1942–1943 (Edizioni Arterigere, 2009), p. 22.
“How many times”: ibid., p. 76.
Italian soldiers resented: ibid., p. 59.
“After nearly twenty”: ibid., p. 62.
“For those lucky enough”: ibid., p. 70.
When Vallicella caught: ibid., p. 65.
about “the hell”: ibid., p. 85.
“I had the pleasant surprise”: Ostellino, p. 143, 11 Dec. 1941.
“We could never fire”: J. Cloudsley-Thompson, unpublished MS.
“What a shock to find”: Vallicella, p. 16.
Exploring the town: ibid., p. 20.
Some Arabs found: ibid., p. 17.
“Even here our allies”: ibid., p. 18.
“We hope this nightmare”: ibid., p. 19.
“The order came”: McManners, pp. 101, 108.
CHAPTER SIX BARBAROSSA
“We were all expecting”: Catherine Merridale, Ivan’s War (Faber, 2005), p. 77.
“Kuznetsov informed me”: ibid., p. 75.
“Many, perhaps most”: Howard, Liberation, p. 9.
“The situation is ideal”: Knoke, p. 47.
“I accepted as natural”: Henry Metelmann, Through Hell for Hitler (Spellmount, 1990), pp. 15, 24.
“Now you see how far”: Potsdam, Vol. 4, p. 341.
“God knows, you are not”: Tooze, p. 546.
“The war with Russia”: Michael Jones, The Retreat: Hitler’s First Defeat (John Murray, 2009), p. 23.
“You can tell your ‘source’ ”: Bellamy, p. 147.
“The war will begin”: Sebastian, p. 368.
“We must win”: Goebbels, Diaries, 23 June 1941.
“It may so happen”: Valentin Berezhkov, Stranitsy Diplomaticheskoy Istorii (Moscow, 1982), pp. 69, 212.
“We were uncritically”: Martin Poppel, Heaven & Hell (Spellmount, 1988), p. 11.
“Our destination is Russia”: ibid., p. 70.
“These days bogs”: Bellamy, p. 197.
“As there seemed”: IWM Kurylak MS.
“I never shot as well”: Knoke, p. 45.
“All of a sudden”: Jones, Retreat, p. 1.
“There were hundreds”: ibid., p. 7.
“For the Motherland”: Merridale, p. 69.
“We were following Napoleon’s”: Jones, Retreat, p. 6.
“The pitiful hordes”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 545.
“We launch wonderful attacks”: ibid., p. 546.
“some even crawling”: Jones, Retreat, p. 10.
“When the commentator”: ibid., p. 55.
“So now Russia will get”: Clare Milburn, Mrs. Milburn’s Diaries (Harrap, 1979), p. 101.
“Have they entered Moscow?”: Sebastian, p. 374.
“The war against these”: Jones, Retreat, p. 18.
“I am repeatedly”: ibid., p. 14.
“Eyes had been”: Bellamy, p. 189.
“missed the German offensive”: ibid., p. 232.
“They are crying”: Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War, ed. Lyuba Vinogradova and Antony Beevor (Harvill, 2006), p. 23.
“We were surprised”: Roderic Braithwaite, Moscow 1941 (Profile, 2006), p. 80.
“What am I to say”: Moskvin, quoted in Pisma S Voiny (Ioshkar-Ola, 1995), p. 87.
“some in trucks”: Gabriel Temkin, My Just War (Presidio, 1998), p. 60.
“Especially those wounded”: Grossman, p. 19.
“the Russian genius”: Bellamy, p. 63.
“Papa, our Valik”: Merridale, p. 127.
“The fascists drove us”: Pisma S Voiny p. 60.
“It’s not surprising”: Merridale, p. 127.
“I am writing for posterity”: ibid., p. 220, 25 March 1943.
“a courageous garrison”: Bellamy, p. 187.
“It is increasingly clear”: Halder, p. 167.
“I believed that Russia”: Moltke, p. 151, 16 July 1941.
“One thing seems certain”: ibid., p. 154.
“Everyone laughs”: Grossman, p. 17.
“I felt an incredible”: Jones, Retreat,