Inferno - Max Hastings [432]
“among other subject”: ibid., p. 164.
“We Europeans lived”: ibid., p. 88.
“It is rather disheartening”: KCL LHA Brooke Popham Papers File 5 7/18/2.
“[The Japanese] not only”: John Smyth, Before the Dawn (Cassell, 1957) pp. 139–40.
“a country which had lost”: Mi Mi Khaing, A Burmese Family (Longman, 1946), p. 130.
“It came to us”: Tatsuro, p. 120.
“Has Singapore fallen?”: ibid., p. 142.
“We didn’t know what hit us”: Bayly and Harper, p. 175.
“I sent my runner”: Thompson, Burma, pp. 11–12.
“We were arrogant”: ibid., p. 41.
“The general atmosphere”: Bayly and Harper, p. 160.
“a Harley Street specialist”: ibid., p. 163.
“The attitude of the army”: Thompson, Burma, p. 34.
“We always felt”: Bayly and Harper, p. 339.
“How thrilling it was”: ibid., p. 173.
“The clearing was littered”: Geoffrey Tyson, Forgotten Frontier, p. 79.
“Her voice soared clear”: Ezdani, p. 80.
“The medical wards are”: Mrs. G. Portal, quoted in Bayly and Harper, p. 189.
“It is the misfortune”: Jawaharlal Nehru, Selected Works of Nehru (Orient Longman, 1980), Vol. 12, p. 269.
CHAPTER TEN SWINGS OF FORTUNE
“We cannot win”: James Reston, Prelude to Victory (Knopf, 1942), p. x.
“The Army … are aiming at”: Slessor Papers File 12c.
“After Pearl Harbor”: USMHI Forrest Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
“It will be a long, hard war”: Christopher Thorne, The Issue of War (Oxford, 1985), p. 25.
“People are crazy”: Blum, p. 97.
“The Good War myth”: Schlesinger, pp. 283–84.
“The men have no great”: Pogue, p. 335.
A behaviourist noted: Perrett, p. 213.
“Suddenly we realized”: Fred Mears, Carrier Combat (Doubleday, 1944), p. 3.
“It was amazing how long”: Kiernan, p. 3.
“Apparently it takes”: Ernie Pyle, Here Is Your War (Pocket, 1945), p. 555.
“They came up the boulevards”: Mydans, p. 147.
“I guess we are”: Elizabeth Norman, Band of Angels (Random House, 1999), p. 66.
“Scores of Japs ripped”: William E. Dyess, The Dyess Story (Putnam, 1944), p. 43.
“the most deplorable”: John Glusman, Conduct Under Fire (Viking, 2007), p. 136.
“They were usually”: Monahan and Neidel-Greenlee, p. 41.
The wounded often: ibid., p. 50.
“The argument raged”: Alfred Weinstein, Barbed Wire Surgeon (Macmillan, 1947), p. 34.
“Now we knew”: Donald Knox, Death March (Harcourt Brace, 1981), p. 121.
“If you fell”: ibid., p. 136.
“just so disappointed”: Glusman, p. 197.
“Poor Wainwright!”: The Eisenhower Diaries (Norton, 1981), p. 54.
“The news commentators”: Blum, p. 54.
“Okay, so long”: Captain Walter Karig and Commander Eric Purdon, Battle Report: Pacific War Middle Phase (Rinehart, 1946), p. 19.
“It was pretty discouraging”: E. T. Wooldridge, ed., Carrier Warfare in the Pacific (Smithsonian, 1993), p. 41.
“They were curious”: ibid., p. 42.
“fires had gotten”: ibid., p. 45.
“Many of the sailors”: Kiernan, p. 13.
“We had a small group”: Wooldridge, p. 281.
“I just felt at home”: ibid., p. 285.
a sailor on the Hornet: ibid., p. 68.
“There was oil very”: ibid., p. 168.
“There is something in”: Herman Melville, Israel Potter (1854).
“After a battle is over”: Walter Lord, Incredible Victory (New York, 1967), p. 87.
“The fate of the United States”: John Costello, The Pacific War (Collins, 1981), p. 285.
“All of us knew”: The Battle of Midway Round Table, http.//www.midway12.org.
“When approximately one mile”: U.S. Naval Historical Center, Esders After-Action report.
“I was not aware”: Kiernan, p. 45.
“I was mad because”: Wooldridge, pp. 56–57.
“I saw this glint”: ibid., p. 58.
“As I looked back”: Tom Cheek, A Ring of Coral, Battle of Midway Roundtable, http//home.comcast.net/r2russ/midway.ringcoral.htm.
“I was horrified”: Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okimuya, Midway: The Battle That Doomed Japan (Annapolis, 1955), p. 177.
“In the dirty dawn”: Robert Leckie, Helmet for My Pillow (Ebury, 2010), p. 57.
“Wizard!!!”: Costello, p. 177.
The enemy ships had: Bruce Loxton and Chris Coulthard-Clark, The Shame of Savo (Allen & Unwin, 1994), pp. 143–47.
“The navy was still”: ibid., p. 265.
“Whether these were”: Donald Miller, D-Days