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“We were attacked”: ibid., p. 220.
“Your nerves got”: ibid., p. 190.
“When you get to”: ibid., p. 193.
“Come on you chaps”: Hart, p. 187.
“Well, Sam”: ibid., p. 173.
“Almost to a man”: Raymond Cooper, B Company (Dobson, 1978), p. 137.
“In the rain, with no”: ibid., p. 389.
“If you went out”: Wooldridge, p. 132.
“Enemy dead were”: Harry Gailey, Bougainville, 1943–45: The Forgotten Campaign (University of Kentucky, 1991), p. 155.
“Out here the war life”: Fussell, p. 109.
“It wasn’t dysentery”: Gailey, p. 124.
“Even under the best”: John Monks, A Ribbon and a Star (Henry Holt, 1945), p. 40.
“Large bogeys bearing”: Wooldridge, p. 163.
“The carrier below”: ibid., p. 177.
“We had hardly any”: Miller, p. 147.
“It reminded me of”: Carl Hoffman, Saipan: The Beginning of the End (U.S. Marine Corps, 1950), p. 223.
“Nowhere have I seen”: Time, 3 July 1944.
“They lost all account”: Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead (1948), p. 249.
“He was pretty shaken”: Wooldridge, p. 209.
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE GERMANY BESIEGED
“You and I are both”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I have buried all”: ibid.
“Then there’ll be nothing”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 86.
“I know why you want”: AI Moser, Armageddon files.
“Café Kaefer”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“To be nineteen”: Fussell, p. 10.
“a walkover”: Harris to Portal, 1 Nov. 1944, Cochrane Papers.
“Until we get Antwerp”: Marshall Papers, Box 67/13, 25 Sept. 1944.
“This is not only true”: Devers, Military Review, Vol. 27, No. 7, Oct. 1947, p. 6.
“We all thought the war”: Koa Wing, p. 236, 29 Sept. 1944.
“This … is a letter”: Day-Lewis, p. 19.
“the utter misery”: John Ellis, The Sharp End (Pimlico, 1993), p. 30.
“By the winter Americans”: Pogue, The Supreme Command files, MHI Carlisle.
In Montgomery’s 21st: Dr. John Petty, British Army Review (summer, 2010), p. 89.
“The English, and even more”: Armageddon files.
“Dear General,” Eisenhower wrote: Marshall Papers, Box 67/15.
“What a mess”: Ellis, p. 96.
“Words cannot describe”: A. K. Altes and N.K.C.A. In’t Veld, The Forgotten Battle: Overlook and the Maas Salient, 1944–45 (Spellmount, 1995), p. 160.
“The war was over”: Broadfoot, p. 231.
“I remember from”: Robert Kotlowitz, Before Their Times (Anchor, 1998), p. 137.
“We strung out across”: Finucane, Overlord correspondence.
“That’s what I keep”: ibid.
Alan Brooke was heard: USMHI Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, Supreme Command files.
“With our tent”: George Neill, Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002), pp. 85, 91, 95–97.
“Through my vision slit”: Metelmann, p. 87.
“your butt hurt”: Schoo, Armageddon files.
“Jesus Christ!”: Kotlowitz, pp. 120–21.
“burst into tears”: AI Beavers, Armageddon files.
“If you are brave”: Second Army Intelligence Report, Armageddon files.
“I wasn’t scared”: AI Moody, Armageddon files.
“Fear reigned”: Donald Burgett, Seven Roads to Hell: A Screaming Eagle at Bastogne (Dell, 1999), p. 1.
“They looked peaceful”: Lindstrom MS, Armageddon files.
“It was so foggy”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 120.
“Gordon got ripped”: Fussell, p. 131.
in the small town: William Hitchock, Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom, Europe 1944–45 (Faber, 2008), pp. 87, 89.
“The shattered remnants”: George D. Graves, Blood and Snow: The Ardennes [n.p.].
“My sergeant and I”: Reynolds, Men of Steel, p. 113.
“We finished the battle”: AI Schroder, Armageddon files.
“Americans are not brought up”: USMHI Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
“The record of accomplishment”: Blumenson, Parameters.
“I shot myself”: Henry Hills narrative, p. 257, Armageddon files.
The recommendation was: Bowlby, p. 109.
“We left along our path”: Anders, p. 251.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR THE FALL OF THE THIRD REICH
“Lieutenant, sir”: Krisztian Ungvary, Battle for Budapest (Tauris, 2003), p. 20.
“The young soldier”: ibid., p. 28.
“promised that Budapest”: ibid., p. 41.
“This is the most beautiful”: ibid., p. 52.
“would not ruin”: ibid., p. 35.
“The