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“We go to look at”: Grossman, p. 45.
“I thought I’d seen”: ibid., p. 48.
“I have told myself”: ibid., p. 96.
“if we do not intend”: David Glanz, Barbarossa (Tempus, 2001), p. 82.
“If we don’t succeed”: Moltke, p. 168.
“It is wet and cold”: Jones, Retreat, p. 52.
“From now on”: ibid., p. 56.
“The men hauled”: ibid., p. 59.
“Hello, Zoya!”: Pisma S Voiny, pp. 24–25.
“The back wheel”: Owen and Walters, p. 155.
“The roads have become”: Jones, Retreat, p. 74.
“In essence,” he said: Zhukov to Konstantin Simonov, quoted in The Times, 6 May 2010.
“The leader did not”: Merridale, p. 84.
“Shoot me if you like”: ibid., p. 85.
“The Führer himself”: Jones, Retreat, p. 192
“Eastern campaign extended”: Moltke, p. 187.
CHAPTER SEVEN MOSCOW SAVED, LENINGRAD STARVED
“Soon the Germans”: Konstantin Rokossovsky, Soldatskiy Dolg (Olun Press Moscow, 2002), p. 8.
“Thus we are approaching”: Bellamy, p. 316, from Haupt, Assault on Moscow, p. 152.
“Relief and happiness”: Jones, Retreat, p. 125.
“Out of the snowstorm”: ibid., p. 141.
“Each time we leave”: ibid., p. 193.
“Eighty men were brought”: ibid., p. 140.
“methodically, precisely”: Michael Jones, The Siege of Leningrad (John Murray, 2008), p. 74.
“Our soldiers are only”: ibid., p. 78.
“You have yourself”: Khrushchev, p. 256.
“Our guys just didn’t”: Jones, Leningrad, p. 117.
“It is not worth risking”: ibid., p. 40.
“We are approaching”: ibid., p. 45.
“grass cakes found”: Lazar Brontman, Voenny dnevnik korrespondenta “Pravdy” [War Diary of the Pravda Correspondent] (Moscow, 2007), pp. 55–56, 19 Aug. 1942.
“I have received a letter”: Pisma S Voiny, p. 31.
“All our soldiers”: Jones, Leningrad, p. 134.
“Lena,” he said: ibid., p. 149.
“It was as if that boy”: ibid., p. 152.
In Svetlana Magaeva’s: ibid..
“People are so weak”: ibid., p. 163.
“I learned what war”: Nikolai Nikulin, Vospominaniya o voine (St. Petersburg, 2009), Internet published.
“He fell to the ground”: Jones, Leningrad, p. 193.
Lidya Okhapkina had her: ibid., p. 206.
“One woman, utterly”: ibid., p. 215.
“I have often wondered”: Jones, Retreat, p. 201.
“I have never heard”: ibid., p. 203.
“When I finished”: ibid.
“There is a serious cost”: ibid., p. 235.
“I grabbed a saw”: ibid., p. 261.
“He lay for a while”: ibid., p. 97.
“As we picked our way”: Jones, Leningrad, p. 279.
“The fact that we did not”: Jones, Retreat, p. 196.
“The only thing holding us”: ibid., p. 61.
“They’ll kill the lot of you”: Merridale, p. 99.
To discourage desertion: Zhadobin et al., eds., Ogennaya Duga: Kurskaya Bitva Glazami Lubyanki [The Salient of Fire: Kursk as Seen Through the Eyes of the Lubyanka] (Moscow, 2003), p. 25.
“This is no gentleman’s war”: Jones, Retreat, p. 82.
“They whined and grovelled”: Merridale, p. 251.
“We have blundered”: Jones, Retreat, p. 107.
“Even if we capture Moscow”: ibid., p. 98.
“Forty per cent of our men”: Mathilde Wolff-Monckeburg, On the Other Side, p. 57.
“Oh, I used to be”: Grossman, p. 53.
“If we do win”: ibid., p. 54.
“I never believe them Roosians”: Nixon, p. 156.
“First, Russia is an”: Wendell Willkie, One World (New York, 1942), p. 167.
“grateful recognition”: Spectator, 19 June 1942.
“It hasn’t half”: Koa Wing, p. 122, 23 Feb. 1942.
CHAPTER EIGHT AMERICA EMBATTLED
A Princeton poll: Public Opinion, p. 19.
“We over here”: Roosevelt Letters, p. 286.
“Before the advent”: Robert Sherwood, The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1948), Vol. 1, p. 132.
“We haven’t heard”: Elaine Steinbeck and Robert Wallsten, eds., John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters (Heinemann, 1975), p. 201.
“If it weren’t for”: ibid., p. 206.
“The question of whether”: Berle and Jacobs, p. 314.
“Who among us”: Donald Nelson, Arsenal of Democracy (Harcourt Brace, 1946), p. 85.
“An army post”: Carson McCullers, Reflections in a Golden Eye (Houghton Mifflin, 1941), p. 1.
“slowly gathering together”: Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (Knopf, 1969), p. 201.
“The U.S. Army started”: Martin Blumenson, Parameters, Vol. 19, No. 4, Dec. 1989.
“We’re going to war