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“I was the first tank”: Lewis, p. 117.
“You know, it sounds”: Jon Lewis, ed., Eyewitness D-Day (Robinson, 1994), p. 101.
“No one was moving”: ibid., p. 102.
“Eva was very excited”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 395.
“On the morning of 6 June”: Overlord files.
“It turns out that”: Poppel, p. 179.
“No landing or lodgement”: von Schweppenburg, in Spectator, 5 June 1964.
“We all reckon”: Poppel, p. 181.
“Looting by troops”: F.S.V. Donnison, Civil Affairs and Military Government: North-West Europe, 1944–46 (HMS0 1961), p. 74, report of 12 June 1944.
“It was an onslaught”: IWM 78/35/1 Madame A. de Vigneral.
“The attack entailed”: IWM Col. H. S. Gillies letter of June 1944.
“One of the scenes”: Lewis, p. 173.
“I have often wondered”: Richardson, Overlord correspondence.
“Here we encountered”: Michael Reynolds, Steel Inferno (Spellmount, 1997), p. 75.
“The whole company”: ibid., p. 81.
“We had to dig them”: Lewis, p. 167.
“the urgent need for”: USMHI First U.S. Army report of operations, 20 Oct. 1943–1 Aug. 1944.
“We were essentially”: Kershaw, Overlord correspondence.
“A sheet of flame”: J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson MS, Overlord files.
“There was, I think”: Charles Farrell, Reflections (Pentland, 2000), p. 20.
“We were all rather”: Cloudsley-Thompson MS.
“Christ!” he said: Patrick Hennessy, Young Man in a Tank (privately published, 1997), p. 79.
“There were a lot”: Kerr, Overlord correspondence.
“strolling, hands in pockets”: quoted in Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 36.
“knowing that with”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“The front tanks are”: Ken Tout, Tank! Forty Hours of Battle (London, 1985), p. 39.
“Driver left”: Andy Cropper, Dad’s War (Anmas, 1994), p. 33.
“It was a hell”: Lewis Keeble, Worm’s Eye View: The Recollections of Lewis Keeble, Appendix C to Battlefield Tour: 1/4 KOYLI in the NW Europe Campaign.
“We discussed”: Craig, p. 176.
“They kept saying”: Pogue, p. 333, 25 Jan. 1945.
“The spirit of human”: Craig, p. 31.
“On an average”: Robin Hastings, An Undergraduate’s War (Bell House, 1997), p. 104.
“I have drawn”: Rathbone, Overlord correspondence.
“We were often”: Selerie, Overlord correspondence.
“None of us were”: Lapp, Armageddon files.
“I told them”: Diercks, Armageddon files.
“Shit and shit”: Barry Broadfoot, ed., Six War Years (Toronto, 1974), p. 97.
“War is a merry thing!”: Overlord files.
“The first men to die”: AI Godau, Armageddon files.
“The Russian won’t”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I see worried faces”: Kurt Meyer, Grenadiers (Fedorowiz Publishing, 1994), p. 134.
“From 6:30 to 8 a.m.”: Zimmer, Overlord files.
“How did the poor”: Poppel, p. 221.
“My darling Irmi”: Overlord files.
“In Soviet thinking”: P. H. Vigor, Soviet Blitzkrieg Theory (Macmillan, 1984), p. 137.
“This was the last”: Merridale, p. 167.
“The enemy’s use”: Armageddon files.
“They all looked pitiful”: Merridale, p. 242.
“camels on their knees”: ibid., p. 259.
“One night you sleep”: Pisma S Voiny, p. 188.
“It was incomprehensible”: Reynolds, Steel Inferno, p. 40.
“There are a great many”: Moltke, pp. 282–83.
“No one ever laughs”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 104, 25 June 1944.
“For days we have”: ibid., p. 107.
“We thought it impossible”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Our nerves were shot”: Cropper, p. 38.
“The floor of the valley”: Eversley Belfield and Hubert Essame, The Battle for Normandy (London, 1975), p. 209.
“My driver was burning”: Lewis, p. 271.
“We were shell-shocked”: Michael Reynolds, Men of Steel (Spelmount, 1999), pp. 32–33
“the remainder of the war”: Spectator, 5 June 1964.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO JAPAN: DEFYING FATE
“Old friendships dissolve”: Australian Forces Weekly Intelligence Review, No. 118 NZ External Affairs file 84/6/1, Pt.1.
“India is not at present”: LHA Lethbridge papers, Lethbridge Report, p. 5.
“It is now our turn”: Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind, p. 555.
“The physical hammering”: Hart, p. 162.
“It was a stinking hell”: ibid., p. 158.
“There are few things”: Thompson, Burma, p. 219.
“We shot them on the tennis court