Inferno - Max Hastings [431]
“that the United States had”: The White House Papers of Harry L. Hopkins, Vol. 1, p. 131.
“I am not in a hurry”: BNA PREM3/475/1.
“I know of no”: David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear (Oxford, 1999), p. 232.
“The ability of the”: Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising (Oxford, 1991), p. 197.
“All talk centers around”: IWM MP Troy Papers 95/25/1.
“Some of my friends”: ibid., letter of 9 June 1941.
Historian David Kennedy: Kennedy, p. 525.
“afraid, unhappy and bewildered”: Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph (University of Wisconsin, 1973), p. 79.
“Dear Jim, When will”: Roosevelt, p. 370.
“Fighting and death everywhere”: Meirion and Susie Harries, Soldiers of the Sun (Heinemann, 1991), p. 222.
In the summer of 1939: see John Colvin, Nomonhan (Quartet, 1999).
“I understand you are”: Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper, Forgotten Armies (Penguin, 2004), p. 71.
“We were flabbergasted”: Alvin Kiernan, The Unknown Battle of Midway (Yale, 2005), p. 2.
“the glorious news”: IzumiyaTatsuro, The Minami Organ (Rangoon, 1967), p. 82.
“a country of Negroes and Jews”: Mack Smith, p. 273.
“The attack, whatever it may”: Steinbeck, p. 248, 8 Dec. 1941.
Ladies’ Home Journal had published: How America Lives (Henry Holt, 1941).
“War is changing”: ibid., p. 20.
“I knew after Pearl Harbor”: Arthur Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century (Mariner Books, 2000), p. 287.
“The war was neither”: John Morton Blum, V Was for Victory (Harcourt Brace, 1976), pp. 201, 89.
“We arrived in the midst”: Schlesinger, pp. 287–88.
Geoffrey Perrett has observed: Perrett, p. 199.
CHAPTER NINE JAPAN’S SEASON OF TRIUMPH
“itching to beat”: John Dower, War Without Mercy (Pantheon, 1986), p. 242.
“How many really die”: Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Kamikaze Diaries (University of Chicago Press, 2006), p. 62.
“Japan, why don’t I”: ibid., p. 79 et seq.
“Each evening we”: Evelyn M. Monahan and Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee, All This Hell (Kentucky University Press, 2000).
“It was a joke”: ibid., p. 8.
“modern Pompeiians”: Bayly and Harper, p. 141.
There was a mutiny: ibid., p. 66.
“most frail, tarty”: ibid., p. 111.
“I said to myself”: Colin Smith, Singapore Burning, p. 123.
“one section of”: ibid., p. 146.
“How is this possible?”: ibid., p. 157.
“We now understood”: Col. Masanobu Tsuji, Japan’s Greatest Victory, Britain’s Worst Defeat (Spellmount, 1997), p. 91.
“Brussels ball”: Diana Cooper, Trumpets from the Steep (Hart Davis, 1960), p. 127.
“Every man waved”: Smith, p. 220.
“The din was terrific”: ibid., p. 238.
“scenes of indescribable”: ibid., p. 245.
“A nice, good man … calm”: ibid., p. 286.
“The Jitra line”: Tsuji, p. 102.
“They took my father”: Smith, p. 416.
“a thing which I am sure”: Bayly and Harper, p. 120.
“The British are treating”: ibid., p. 124.
“We have not treated”: Smith, p. 426.
“That is the end”: Bayly and Harper, p. 130.
“It was as if”: Smith, p. 438.
“I don’t think”: ibid., p. 496.
“I myself only feel”: ibid., p. 473.
“Having lost their nerve”: ibid., p. 480.
“In civil life I am”: Bayly and Harper, p. 142.
“Their conduct was bestial”: BNA WO106/2550B.
“It shouldn’t have happened”: Smith, p. 497.
“Chin up, girls”: ibid., p. 533.
“The fall of Singapore”: Bayly and Harper, p. 126.
“had been handed over”: ibid., p. 147.
“The area presented”: Stephen Abbott, And All My War Is Done (Pentland, 1991), p. 31.
“The heavens had indeed”: Bayly and Harper, p. 117.
“I saw them tramping”: Smith, p. 550.
“Groups of them were”: Harries and Harries, p. 264.
“We had cause”: John Kennedy, The Business of War (Hutchinson, 1957), p. 198.
“I moved to the Nipponese”: Edward Dunlop, The Diaries of “Weary”: Dunlop (Viking, 1986), pp. 12–13.
In a little house: Yvonne Vaz Ezdani, ed., Songs of the Survivors (Noronha Goa, 2007).
“Out! Quick!”: Daw Sein, Les Dix milles vies d’une femme birmane (Claude Delachet Fuillon, 1978), pp. 152–55.
“I’m not dead!”: Edzani, p. 87.
“Life begins with”: Bayly and Harper, p. 161.
“All we saw were”: Julian Thompson, Forgotten Voices of Burma