Inferno - Max Hastings [434]
“A thought is forming”: ibid., p. 279.
“They said that the”: Merridale, p. 165.
“Just as I lay down”: Belov diary, 8 Oct. 1942.
“The whole place trembled”: Metelmann, p. 120.
“This is the most beautiful”: Knoke, p. 80.
“Our thoughts and conversations”: Poppel, p. 99.
“The implacable struggle”: Potsdam, Vol. 11/1, p. 583.
“Vehicles complete with”: Eugenio Corti, Few Returned: 28 Days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942–43 (University of Missouri Press, 1997), p. 10.
“But how can you”: ibid., p. 26.
“Countless instances of”: ibid., pp. 30–31.
“the wounded were lying”: ibid., p. 61.
“I was greeted by”: ibid., p. 65.
“During halts on those”: ibid., p. 194.
“We watched those aircraft”: ibid., p. 76.
“Back in the distant patria”: ibid., p. 78.
“It was extremely painful”: ibid.
“I … asked myself”: ibid., p. 138.
“in the palm of his”: ibid., p. 218.
At the end of 1942: Mack Smith, p. 293.
“I’m in an exceptional”: Merridale, p. 162.
“There’s no modesty”: Grossman, p. 225.
“The killing of thousands”: Koa Wing, p. 152.
“The day of battle”: Belov diary, 13 Feb. 1943.
“The man is not to my liking”: Halder diaries, p. 387.
“Our army suddenly”: G. A. Kumanyov, Close to Stalin [Ryadom so Stalinym] (Moscow, 1999), p. 38.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN LIVING WITH WAR
“I suppose our position”: Antony Hichens, Gunboat Command (Pen & Sword, 2007), p. 96.
“One of the fascinations”: USMHI Pogue, The Supreme Command files, Morgan interview.
“In the early war years”: Max Hastings, Armageddon files.
“Dearest Mum”: Robert Kershaw, p. 203.
“I am absolutely fed up”: Thompson, The War at Sea, p. 111.
“It must take about seven”: Peter White, With the Jocks (Sutton, 2001), p. 37.
“My whole generation”: Koa Wing, p. 173, 5 April 1943.
“After a few minutes”: ibid., p. 60.
“I’ve never flirted”: ibid., p. 71.
“After dinner I”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 210.
“There is nothing so”: Blythe, Private Words, 28 July 1943.
“I learned to take care”: AI Thompson, Armageddon files.
“We somehow hoped”: AI Moody, Armageddon files.
“My comrades were mostly”: Ron Davidson MS, Armageddon files.
“I accept this life”: Ronald Blythe, ed., Components of the Scene (Penguin, 1966), p. 85.
“When the tents are down”: USMHI Bruce Papers, Box 6.
“So much of this war”: Harold Fennema MS, Armageddon files.
“a nightmare”: Eugene Gagliardi MS, Armageddon files.
“As an urban selectee’s”: E.J. Kahn, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 1942.
“The personal bodily”: Eugene Sledge, With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (Ebury, 2010), p. 91.
“The damnable truth”: Farley Mowat, And No Birds Sang (Cassell, 1980), p. 203.
“There was nothing subtle”: Sledge, p. 72.
“Give a Jock a rifle”: Borthwick, p. 61.
“Young Cutter”: White, p. 155.
“We had learned our first”: IWM 92/1/1 C. R. Eke MS, A Game of Soldiers.
“It’s hard for guys my age”: Mowat, p. 107.
“It’s funny, the things”: James Jones and Art Weithas, WW II: A Chronicle of Soldiering (Grosset & Dunlap, 1975).
“One learned to accept”: AI Mahlo, Armageddon files.
“I was so young”: AI Moser, Armageddon files.
“The man disintegrated”: Roscoe Blunt, Foot Soldier: A Combat’s Infantryman’s War in Europe (Da Capo Press, 2002), p. 86.
“Life was so free”: Norman Craig, The Broken Plume (IWM, 1982), p. 77.
“Nobody has the courage”: Moltke, p. 275, 26 Jan. 1943.
“We weren’t going to”: Paul Fussell, The Boys’ Crusade (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004), p. 98.
“The company was”: AI Gunther, Armageddon files.
“I should like”: Spectator, 16 July 1943.
“The report has almost”: Spectator, 18 Dec. 1942.
“If it is not accepted”: David Elliott quoted in Private Words, p. 183, 30 April 1943.
“The British Army is not”: Michael Foot, Bevan (McGibbon & Kee, 1965), p. 388.
“Tea from the British”: Blum, p. 66.
“These gravely yearned-for”: ibid., p. 64.
“a beautiful young man”: AI Beavers, Armageddon files.
“I’m going home!”: Schoo MS, Armageddon files.
“Any guy overseas”: Blum, p. 65.
“I see all these thousands”: Steinbeck, p. 264.
“I’m going to start”: Blum, p. 67.
“They are the most”: Iris Origo,