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840. “Generally it is believed” Nicholas, op. cit., pp. 593, 595.
841. “A great many people feel” USAMHI, Eichelberger Papers, “Dearest Miss Em,” op. cit.
842. “Perhaps this statement” Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Racing the Enemy, Belknap, Harvard 2005, p. 135.
843. “We had a most” Truman diaries, ed. Ferrell, op. cit., 16.7.45.
844. “that at any rate they had something” BNA PREM479/2.
845. “The preoccupation” Freedman and Dockrill, op. cit., p. 195.
846. “all things are always” WSC to Portal 7.10.41.
847. “Her unwillingness to surrender” Quoted Frank, op. cit., p. 232.
848. “Subject: Bombs Away” USAF Historical Research gp-509-su July–August 1945.
849. “Official investigation of the results” LC Arnold Papers Box 256.
850. “The lurid fantasies” H. G. Nicholas, op. cit., 11.8.45.
851. “Old Joe called upstairs” 7.8.45, Nella Last’s War, Sphere 1983.
852. “From what we knew” USAMHI Eddleman Papers.
853. “It is now widely held” Fraser, op. cit., p. xx.
854. “Stephen—a ghastly thing has happened” Abbott, op. cit., p. 95.
CHAPTER TWENTY • MANCHURIA: THE BEAR’S CLAWS
855. “It was the worst” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 381.
856. “This was the last great military operation” This chapter owes much to Col. David M. Glantz’s massive two-volume narrative of the campaign, The Soviet Offensive in Manchuria, 1945, and Soviet Operational and Tactical Combat in Manchuria 1945, Cass 2003, supported by Japanese and Chinese accounts and author interviews, together with interviews with and personal accounts by Soviet veterans.
857. “a still more shocking report” Okumiya and Horikoshi, op. cit., p. 321.
858. “At last!” AI Funaki.
859. “The Soviet Union’s aims” VOV 389, P. N. Pospelov, History of the Great Patriotic War, Moscow, Voenizdat 1963, Vol. V.
860. “Ah, boys, they are taking you” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 320.
861. “Uncles, is our daddy” ibid.
862. “Everyone slept a lot” ibid., p. 322.
863. “I was twenty-two” AI Chervyakov.
864. “Please, Lyosha, could you ask” AI Fillipov.
865. “we came to realise the price” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 320.
866. “What a host is moving east!” ibid., p. 322.
867. “there was that perpetual uncertainty” Ya Dralsya S Samurayami, Moscow 2005, p. 383.
868. “I’d taken part in plenty of offensives” ibid., p. 322.
869. “Machine-gunner Anatoly Shilov” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 343.
870. “It took us a week” ibid., p. 324.
871. “Guys rubbished the Americans” ibid., p. 322.
872. “Some Japanese bayonets” USAMHI POW monograph no. 154-b Col. Hiroshi Matsumoto.
873. “They were simply skin and bones” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 325.
874. “In the hours before the assault” ibid., p. 292.
875. “Say hello to the Manchurians” AI Fillipov.
876. “Soon there was this crazy heat” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 327.
877. “Sixty years have passed” ibid., p. 292.
878. “If your majesty does not go” Pu Yi, op. cit., p. 317.
879. “These created hazards” In the Hills of Manchuria, Military Herald no. 12, 1980, p. 30.
880. “The Russians solved the problem” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 379.
881. “The road widened somewhat” Belobodorov, op. cit., p. 50.
882. “Yet even when tanks were hit” JM154, 293, quoted Glantz, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 173.
883. “Because of the difficulty of holding” Quoted ibid., p. 103.
884. “Soviet pilot Boris Ratner’s wing” AI Ratner.
885. “Many Japanese lacked the will” AI Hongbin.
886. “Units advanced from hill to hill” Quoted Glantz, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 178.
887. “We were completely exhausted” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 304.
888. “The 59th Cavalry Division faced special difficulties” ibid., p. 364.
889. “I could never have believed” AI Petryakov.
890. “At first, we were so thrilled” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 331.
891. “We’re too late again” ibid., p. 306.
892. “The stench was indescribable” ibid., p. 350.
893. “They went mad and stung” ibid., p. 351.
894. “They deserved everything” AI Li Dongguan.
895. “who gave us a great welcome” AI Jiang De.
896. “This was no country stroll” Ivanov, op. cit., p. 314.
897. “On the summit they found” ibid., p. 351.
898. “Suddenly the sheep were shooting” AI Fillipov.
899. “On the evening