All Hell Let Loose (120 page)

‘We shot them on the tennis court’ ibid. p.215

‘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

‘But one was burning’ 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
US Marine Corps 1950 p.223

‘Nowhere have I seen’
Time
3.7.44

‘They lost all account’ Norman Mailer
The Naked and the Dead
1948 p.249

‘He was pretty shaken’ Wooldridge p.209

Chapter 23 – 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,
Armageddon
files

‘To be nineteen’ Fussell p.10

‘a walkover’ Harris to Portal 1.11.44, Cochrane Papers

‘Until we get Antwerp’ Marshall Papers Box 67/13 25.9.44

‘This is not only true’ Devers
Military Review
Vol. XXVII no. 7 October 1947 p.6

‘We all thought the war’ Koa Wing p.236 29.9.44

‘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 USMHI Carlisle

‘In Montgomery’s 21st’ Dr John Petty
British Army Review
summer 2010 p.89

‘The English, and even more’
Armageddon
files

‘I am getting exceedingly’ Marshall Papers Box 67/15

‘What a mess’ Ellis p.96

‘Words cannot describe’ A.K. Altes & N.K.C.A. In’t Veld,
The Forgotten Battle: Overloon 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 Pogue,
Supreme Command
files

‘I felt numb’ George Neill
Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press 200 pp.85, 91, 95–7

‘Through my vision slit’ Metelmann p.87

‘your butt hurt’ Schoo
Armageddon
files

‘Jesus Christ!’ Kotlowitz pp.120–1

‘burst into tears’ AI Beavers
Armageddon
files

‘If you are brave’ Second Army Intelligence,
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

‘My sergeant and I’ Reynolds
Men of Steel
p.113

‘We finished the battle’ AI Schröder,
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 24 – The Fall of the Third Reich

1
BUDAPEST: IN THE EYE OF THE STORM

‘Lieutenant, sir’ Krisztian Ungvary
Battle for Budapest
Tauris 2003 p.20

‘The young soldier’ ibid. p.28

‘and promised that Budapest’ ibid. p.41

‘This is the most beautiful’ ibid. p.52

‘would not ruin’ ibid. p.35

‘The Russkis’ ibid. p.111

‘Bizarrely, a group of’ ibid. p.64

‘It was a girl of about’ ibid. p.141

‘Leaving the room’ ibid p.142

‘Supply situation intolerable’ ibid. p.147

‘Haven’t you got a mother’ ibid. p.239

‘In narrow Kazinczy’ ibid. p.247

‘Pus, blood, gangrene’ ibid. p.203

‘The Hitlerists continued’ ibid. p.208

‘They were simple’ ibid. p.293

2
EISENHOWER’S ADVANCE TO THE ELBE

‘a small, bird-like’ Donald T. Peak
Fire Mission
Sunflower University Press 2001 p.148

‘I’ve had enough’ Charles Felix
Crossing the Sauer
Burford Books 2002 p.153

‘a soldier in Aaron Larkin’s’ MS
Aaron’s War
Armageddon files

‘Pfc Harold Lindstrom’ Lindstrom MS
Armageddon
files

‘We were members’ History Branch Office of the JAG with the US Forces European Theatre 18 July 1942–l November 1945 Vol. I pp.242–9

‘I took aim’ White p.102

‘He wore a gray wool’ Fussell p.120

‘I am a deserter’ AI Pflug,
Armageddon
files

‘The German army left’ Djilas p.446

‘We are worn out’ Poppel p.133

‘Rifles will be carried’ Second Army Intelligence Report,
Armageddon
files

‘he once addressed’ AI Saurma,
Armageddon
files

‘rations were excellent’ Michael Reynolds
Men of Steel
p.231

3
BERLIN: THE LAST BATTLE

‘I wanted to shout’ Grossman p.330

‘Estates, villages and towns’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945
p.100

‘At least we were young’ AI Kowitz,
Armageddon
files

‘In these situations’ AI Pflug,
Armageddon
files

‘The world is a very lonely’ IWM 94/7/1 Mrs.S.H.Stewart MS

‘I don’t give a fuck’ Antony Beevor
Berlin: The Downfall, 1945
Penguin 2002 p.33

‘
Fritz, halt!
’ Stanislav Gorsky
Zapiski navodchika SU-76
[Memoirs of an SU-76 Gunlayer] Moscow 2010 p.108

‘We stay in all sorts’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha
p.186

‘I’m sitting in my candle-lit’ Fromm
Armageddon
files

‘We no longer fought’ Sajer p.382

‘To be an officer’ Beevor p.164

‘These days I keep’ Anonymous p.62

‘Hello my darling!’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha
p.137

‘Silence! I’ve got’ Beevor p.189

‘My God!’ Hagen p.213

‘It’s all over’ Moorhouse p.360

‘Dear Fatherland, set’ ibid. p.351

‘as if blood’ Ruth Andreas-Friedrich
Berlin Underground 1938–45
New York 1947 p.273

‘Years ago they shouted’ Jacob Kronika
Der Untergang Berlins
Hamburg 1946 p.127 quoted Moorhouse p.359

‘when we left Lieberose’ Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn
Chasing Shadows
Harmondsworth 2001 pp.238–9

‘Along the whole length’ Beevor p.219

‘We moved across terrain’ ibid. p.226

‘Why drag out’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.59

‘Now we’re in front of’ Fromm
Armageddon
files

‘They all seem so miserable’ Anonymous p.36

‘a mere child’ Dorothea von Schwanenflügel
Laughter Wasn’t Rationed
Alexandria VA 1999 p.342

‘You see very young’ Anonymous pp.40–1

‘Berlin … presented a dreadful’ Sune Persson
Escape from the Third Reich
London 2010 pp.113–14

‘We are vegetating’ Helga Schneider
The Bonfire of Berlin
London 2005 p.55

‘If – instead of this’ Richard Bessel
Germany 1945
Simon & Schuster 2009 p.141

‘No sound of man’ Anonymous p.189

‘Everywhere there’s filth’ ibid. p.185

‘The baker comes stumbling’ ibid. p.71

‘No one could invent’ ibid. p.230

‘a means of escape’ ibid. p.81

‘They do not speak’ Bessell p.267

‘Horrifying things’ Grossman p.327

‘I am a Russian’ Jacob Kronika
Der Untergang Berlins
quoted Moorhouse p.385

‘The pastor shot himself’ quoted Moorhouse p.372

‘They treated us with’ Bailey p.244

‘Illusions about the Red Army’ Djilas p.420

‘There was still too much’ Fraser p.267

‘Our celebration was’ Diercks MS
Armageddon
files

‘thank God it’s all over’ Cropper p.90

‘Within an hour the city’ Detachment 14A2 BCA Regiment
Armageddon
files

Chapter 25 – Japan Prostrate

‘We shall be doing no more’ Bayly & Harper p.431

‘Partisans, young men’ ibid. p.434

‘In all my life’ US Marine Corps Historical Institute Quantico Joseph Raspilair Papers

‘Lt. Patrick Caruso’ Patrick Caruso
Nightmare on Iwo
Naval Institute Press 2001

‘I saw … destroyers get hit’ Wooldridge p.253

‘I was amazed’ ibid. p.263

‘We took off last night’ phttp://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 & Tadashi Nakajima with Roger Pineau
The Divine Wind
Hutchinson 1959 p.179

‘I can remember’ Wooldridge p.110

‘Kasuga Takeo’ Kasuga Takeo quoted
Kamikaze Diaries
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney University of Chicago Press 2006 p.9

‘Many of the new arrivals’ Inoguchi & 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 24.6.45

‘I’ve got a message’ Hugh Pettigrew quoted 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. p.641

‘The sure path’ Yoshijiro Umezu
‘Facing the Decisive Battle’ Kaikosha Kiji
17.5.45

‘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 26 – Victors and Vanquished

‘We … mourn most deeply’ Wolff-Monckeburg p.130

‘Like timid ground creatures’
New York Times
22.4.45

‘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 11.5.45

‘Darling I
know
’ Day-Lewis p.174

‘Gunner 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’
Pogue’s War
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 31.12.44