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“I saw … destroyers get hit”: Wooldridge, p. 253.
“I was amazed”: ibid., p. 263.
“We took off last night”: http://b-29.org/.
“LeMay is an operator”: Steve Birdsall, Saga of the Superfortress (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1981), p. 143.
“There was surprisingly”: ibid., p. 149.
“having visited”: ibid., p. 312.
“To me, that means”: The Hourglass, pp. 401–2.
“There have been innumerable”: Rikihei Inoguchi and Tadashi Nakajima, with Roger Pineau, The Divine Wind (Hutchinson, 1959), p. 179.
“I can remember”: Wooldridge, p. 110.
Kasuga Takeo: Kasuga Takeo, quoted in Kamikaze Diaries, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of Chicago Press, 2006), p. 9.
“Many of the new arrivals”: Inoguchi and Nakajima, p. 148.
“a few of these pilots”: ibid., p. 149.
“Now the wholesale”: Ohnuki-Tierney, p. 88.
“Today the Japanese”: ibid., p. 126.
“Mother, I am”: ibid., p. 173.
“The other day I paid”: ibid., p. 209.
“My comrades!”: USMHI Japanese POW dox PW2050, 24 June 1945.
“I’ve got a message”: Hugh Pettigrew, quoted in Thompson, Burma, p. 352.
“We thought we would”: ibid., p. 356.
“In the forefront”: Yoshida Mitsuru, Requiem for Battleship Yamato (Constable, 1999), p. 44.
“They had prepared”: Laura Fermi, Atoms in the Family (University of Chicago Press, 1954), p. 254.
“I have no hope”: Richard Rhodes, Ultimate Powers (Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 641.
“Those who advocate”: ibid.
“The sure path”: Yoshijiro Umezu, “Facing the Decisive Battle,” Kaikosha Kiji, 17 May 1945.
“Your lectures are so”: Nemesis files, p. 21.
“No one person”: AI Nakamura, Nemesis files.
“We heard about”: IWM RNR 95/5/1.
“We played alarm clock”: Birdsall, p. 309.
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX VICTORS AND VANQUISHED
“We … mourn most deeply”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 130.
“Like timid ground creatures”: New York Times, 22 April 1945.
“I felt as if”: Anders, p. 282.
“They greet me politely”: ibid., p. 286.
“We, the Poles”: IWM 90/11/1 B. Lvov.
“Everyone agreed”: Koa Wing, p. 268 11 May 1945.
“Darling I know”: Day-Lewis, p. 174.
David McCormick: letter in possession of Miranda Corben.
“For years I expected”: Kevin Wilson, Journey’s End (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010), p. 392.
“It was, I suppose”: Schlesinger, p. 353.
“The war, while”: Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War (University of Kentucky, 2001), p. 379.
“I wanted everything”: AI Minamoto, Nemesis files.
“In those days, Japanese”: AI Konada, Nemesis files.
“seen it come out”: Wooldridge, p. 286.
“The ending of the war”: Birdsall, p. 311.
“I am ashamed”: Sebastian, p. 628, 31 Dec. 1944.
“It would be an error”: Christopher Thorne, Allies of a Kind, p. 401, 5 April 1944.
“I cried when I”: Bayly and Harper, p. 455.
“old friends so changed”: ibid., p. 438.
“I knew we’d have to”: B. J. Kerkvliet, The Huk Rebellion: A Study of Peasant Revolt in the Philippines (Berkeley, 1977), p. 109.
“I soon found”: Pogue, Pogue’s War, p. 202.
“they are more like”: Corti, The Last Soldiers of the King, p. 80.
“It was the last time”: Terkel, p. 67.
“Hitler is a genius”: Drew Pearson, Diaries, 1939–59, ed. Tyler Abell (New York, 1974), p. 134.
“There are two great”: RUSI Journal, June 1979.
Germany lost: see the authoritative statistical study published in 2000 by Dr. Rudiger Overmans of the German Armed Force Military History Research Office.
“I wasn’t quite sure”: AI Lott, Armageddon files.
“No one believes”: Hagen, p. 218.
“The brass—the people”: AI Ebisawa, Nemesis files.
“The Japanese army had”: article in Bungei Shunju, March 1956.
“In the aftermath”: AI Hando, Nemesis files.
“Jews are of greatest”: Blythe, Private Words, p. 33.
Bibliography
A comprehensive bibliography of the Second World War, or even of the books about it on my own shelves, is unrealistic within the compass of these pages; I have therefore listed below only titles which I have explicitly cited or quoted in my own text above. The omission of innumerable fine and great works, far from implying dismissal of their merit and importance, reflects my attempt to reprise as little as possible,