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“At daybreak a couple”: ibid., p. 72.
“Here was cacophony”: Leckie, p. 78.
“Morale was very bad”: Miller, pp. 67–68.
“Everything was so”: James Jones, The Thin Red Line (Collins, 1963), p. 43.
“[It] was the most tremendous”: Ronald Spector, Eagle Against the Sun (Viking, 1985), pp. 205–6.
“I have seen men”: George Johnston, The Toughest Fighting in the World (Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1943), p. 5.
“What a hell of a load”: ibid., p. 8.
“This is not murder”: ibid., p. 4.0
“I do not believe”: ibid., p. 198.
“Confusion was the keynote”: ibid., p. 45.
“Our troops are fighting”: ibid., pp. 167–68.
“It was a sly and”: Robert Eichelberger, Our Jungle Road to Tokyo (Nashville Battery Classics 1989), pp. 21–23.
CHAPTER ELEVEN THE BRITISH AT SEA
“The bombers”: Julian Thompson, The War at Sea (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996), p. 113.
“I couldn’t see anything”: ibid., p. 149.
“sheer unmitigated hell”: J. B. Lamb, The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada’s Atlantic War (Macmillan, Toronto, 1979), p. 73.
“It was a continual”: AI Harris 11 Oct. 1976, Bomber Command files.
An average of: Stephen Howarth and David Law, eds., The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–45 (Greenhill, 1994), Jurgen Rohwer, p. 411.
“One minute we had”: ibid., p. 51.
“Trusting to make”: Richard Woodman, The Real Cruel Sea (Murray, 2004), p. 166.
“Living and working”: Howarth and Law, p. 215.
“race and other population”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 612.
“There will be no”: Erich Topp, quoted in Howarth and Law, p. 217.
“amounted almost to”: Corelli Barnett, Engage the Enemy More Closely (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991), p. 486.
“This low state of efficiency”: quoted in Howarth and Law, p. 199.
“These problems often”: ibid., p. 522.
“While one could keep”: Thompson, War at Sea, p. 160.
“I waited for the swell”: Richard Woodman, Arctic Convoys (John Murray, 2001), p. 323.
“We were kept in”: ibid., p. 107.
“The mood is bitter”: ibid., p. 220.
“rather sad and twitchy”: ibid., p. 161.
“The arrival in Kola”: Thompson, War at Sea, p. 161.
“God knows we paid”: Woodman, Arctic, p. 445.
“a fantastically wonderful”: Woodman, Malta, p. 379.
“I felt indeed that”: Thompson, War at Sea, p. 192.
“She presented a”: ibid., p. 192.
“Most of us felt”: ibid., p. 195.
“I could never have”: Woodman, Malta, p. 403.
CHAPTER TWELVE THE FURNACE: RUSSIA IN 1942
“We arrived at 8 p.m.”: Brontman, p. 132.
“We’re having a little”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha 1941, 19 May 1942.
“Eastern man is very”: Gunther Blumentritt, quoted in The Fatal Decisions (Michael Joseph, 1952), pp. 37–38.
“One explosion next”: Potsdam Vol. 6, p. 938.
“We wept as we retreated”: Merridale, p. 133.
Women also policed: Brontman, p. 22, 18 June 1942.
“psychologically prepared for”: ibid., p. 31, 4 April 1942.
“The night was terribly dark”: Front Diary of N. F. Belov, 1941–44, in Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, 1941–1945, 23 April 1942.
“I have the inescapable”: BNA WO208/1777.
In August 1942: Jeffrey, p. 376.
“There was, I said”: Anders, p. 124.
“we Poles were now”: ibid., p. 114.
“The civilians are howling”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, pp. 271–72, 23 Oct. 1942.
“These fools have allowed”: Grossman, p. 127.
“We have to learn”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 273.
“Results deplorable”: Belov diary, 9 Sept. 1942.
“We ploughed over the”: Potsdam, Vol. 6, p. 1097.
“The streets of the city”: Merridale, p. 150.
“The officers made them”: Vladimir Pershanin, Shtrafniki, radvedchiki, pekhota [Punishment Companies, Reconnaissance, Infantry] (Moscow, 2010), p. 177.
“The wounded, more than”: ibid., p. 185.
“Approaching this place”: Grossman, p. 151.
“ ‘I had been imagining’ ”: ibid., p. 183.
“I miss you very much”: ibid., p. 152.
“There’s firing and thunder”: ibid., p. 170.
7 “cowards” and 1: Bellamy, p. 520.
“Courage is infectious here”: Grossman, p. 174.
“Hello, my dear Marusya!”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 273.
“In connection with the”: Bellamy, p. 380.
“During the night”: Nikulin memoir.
“It shows in the expression”: Jones, Seige, p. 269.
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