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Chapter
8, ‘Those Crazy Mountain Climbers’

1

*
Edwin R. Unger,
Admiral Canaris: Master of Military Intelligence
(London: Blackfriars, 1980), p. 211.

2

*
Vernon T. Nelson, ‘Betrayal of the German Navy’,
Naval Society Journal,
Vol. XX, No. 3, June 1970.

3

A marcher land is a hostile border area between two states such as the border between England and Scotland, which was called the ‘Disputed Land’ for centuries as each side raided the other.

4

*
Mehmet Iconoglu,
Turkey and the German Alliance
(Cambridge: Massachusetts University Press, 1972), pp. 83-5.

5

Chuikov,
Battle for Stalingrad,
pp. 42-3.

6

Chuikov,
Battle for Stalingrad,
pp. 38, 47.

7

Chuikov,
Battle for Stalingrad,
pp. 51-2.

8

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
pp. 99-100.

9

Jones,
Stalingrad,
p. 29.

10

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
p. 97.

11

‘A Hoax at the Soviet oilfields’,
www.germanmilitaryhistory.com/blog/51608-a-hoax-at-soviet-oil-fields
, accessed 13 March 1942.

12

*
Baron Adrian von Fölkersam,
Green Devils: The Brandenburg Regiment in the Second World War
(London: Greenhill, 1985), p. 93. This book is considered the authoritative account of the German special forces in World War II and was the type of military book gem that Greenhill Books editor/owner, Lionel Leventhal, the grand old man of British military publishing, was famous for bringing to the English-speaking readership.

13

Carell,
Hitler Moves East,
pp. 557-8.

14

David Glantz,
To the Gates of Stalingrad: Soviet-German Combat Operations, April-August 1942
(Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 2009), p. 419.

15

Glantz,
To the Gates of Stalingrad,
pp. 429-31.

16

*
Boris Oblomov,
Monster: The Life of Lavrenti Beria
(Boulder, CO: Eastview Press, 1993), pp. 290-2.

17

Carell,
Hitler Moves East,
p. 559.

18

*
William S. Johnson,
Hoist on Their Own Petard: The German Use of Soviet Equipment in World War II
(London: Charing Cross Road Publishers, 1966), pp. 153—66.

19

*
Alfredo Coletti,
Soaring Roman Eagles: The Alpini in the Caucasus
(New York: Frederick, Bolton Et Myers, 1966), p. 156. In appreciation of this assistance, the Germans emblazoned their Caucasus mountain fighting badge with the image of an Alpini mule.

20

*
Manfried von Sulzbach,
Conquering the Caucasus: German Mountain Troops in Action
(Warren, MI: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1967), p. 122.

21

*
Coletti,
Roman Eagles,
p. 157.

22

Hans Ulrich Rudel,
Stuka Pilot
(New York: Ballantine, 1958), p. 57.

Chapter 9,
The Terror Raid

1

Chuikov,
The Battle for Stalingrad,
p. 43.

2

Herbert Selle, ‘The German Sixth Army on the Road to Catastrophe’,
Military Review,
Volume XXXVII, September 1957, No. 6.

3

Carell,
Stalingrad,
pp. 124-5.

4

Stalin, Works, Vol. 17, 1942, to Roosevelt, 22 August 1942.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/Stalin/v17_1942.htm
; accessed 30 March 2012.

5

‘Alger Hiss’,
www.conservapedia.com/Alger_Hiss#cite_note-237
, accessed 30 March 2012.

6

Herbert Romerstein and Eric Breindel,
‘Reds in the White House’, A review of The Venona Secrets: Exposing Soviet Espionage and America’s Traitors,
Claremont Institute, Summer 2001.

7

Racey Jordan with Richard L. Stokes,
From Major Jordan’s Diaries
(New York: Harcourt Brace, 1952), p. 42.

8

*
Aaron C. Davis, ‘The Convoy Decision’,
Journal of Civil-Military Relations,
Vol. XXXI, No. 12, June 1977, p. 1101.

9

Victor Nekrasov,
Eront-Line Stalingrad
(New York: Fontana/Collins, 1964), p. 43.

10

Nekrasov,
Front-Line Stalingrad,
pp. 61-2.

11

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
pp. 104-5.

12

Jones,
Stalingrad,
p. 57.

13

Wolfram von Richthofen’s cousin was the famous Manfred von Richthofen, the greatest German ace of the First World War.

14

David Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad, September-November 1942, The Stalingrad Trilogy,
Volume 2 (Lawrence, KS: University of Kansas, 2009), p. 25.

15

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
p. 97.

16

Craig,
Enemy at the Gates,
p. 32.

17

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
pp. 97-8.

18

Carell,
Hitler Moves East,
p. 594.

19

Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad,
p. 17.

20

Jones,
Stalingrad,
pp. 59-61.

21

Glantz,
To the Gates of Stalingrad,
p. 264.

22

Jones,
Stalingrad,
pp. 42-4.

23

*
Alexei Suvorov, ‘Red Army Mutiny at Stalingrad’,
Military Review,
Vol. XXX, No. 12, Dec 1956, p. 55.

24

*
Karl Schmidt, ‘How Henry Ford won the Battle of Stalingrad’,
Military History Review,
Vol. XXX, No. 12, 1957, pp. 199-202,

25

Craig,
Enemy at the Gates,
p. 10.

26

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
p. 113.

Chapter 10,
New Commanders All Round

1

*
Gill, ‘Into the Caucasus’, p. 154.

2

*
Gill, ‘Into the Caucasus’, p. 153.

3

Beevor,
Stalingrad, p.
117.

4

Craig,
Enemy at the Gates,
p. 78.

5

Gerhard Engel,
At the Heart of the Reich: The Secret Diary of Hitler’s Army Adjutant
(London: Greenhill, 2005), p. 131.

6

Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad,
p. 545.

7

Carell,
Hitler Moves East,
p. 577.

8

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
pp. 123-4.

9

*
Bennett C. Archer,
The Battle for Sukhumi 1942,
Battle Study No. 137 (London: Peregrine, 2012), p. 77.

10

*
Boris Oblomov,
Monster: The Life of Lavrenti Beria
(Boulder, CO: Eastview Press, 1993), p. 321.

11

*
Archer,
Sukhumi,
pp. 94-6.

12

*
Samuel Morison,
Gallant Sailor: The Life of Admiral Sergei Gorshkov
(Annapolis: Naval Society Press, 1955), p. 198.

13

*
Gerhard Engel,
The Hitler I Served: The Story of Hitler’s Army Adjutant
(London: Greenhill, 1993), p. 121.

14

Stalin,
Works,
Vol. 17, 1942, to Churchill, 7 September 1942.
www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/Stalin/v17_1942.htm
; accessed 30 March 2012.

15

Craig,
Enemy at the Gates,
pp. 79-80.

16

*
Gill, ‘Into the Caucasus’, pp. 156-7.

17

*
John R. Wilson,
The Wehrmacht’s Foreign Legion
(London: Greenhill, 1985), p. 211.

18

*
Peter G. Tsouras, ‘Killing the Red Tsar’.

19

Sverdlovsk’s name before the Revolution was Yekaterinburg, named after its founder, Catherine the Great. It was here that the Bolsheviks murdered the Romanov Imperial family. Its name was changed to Sverdlovsk after the name of a prominent Bolshevik.

20

Vassili Zaitsev,
Notes of a Russian Sniper
(London: Frontline, 2009), pp. 1-2, 9, 12.

21

Chuikov,
The Battle for Stalingrad,
pp. 74-6.

22

Chuikov,
The Battle for Stalingrad,
p. 78.

23

Carell,
Stalingrad,
p. 138.

24

Jones,
Stalingrad,
pp. 107-15.

25

Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad,
pp. 125-9.

26

Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad,
p. 134.

Chapter 11,
Der Rattenkrieg

1

*
Stephen J. Haithwaite,
German Airborne Operations in the Caucasus: The Battle for Grozny,
Battle Study No. 144 (London: Peregrine, 2001) p. 34.

2

Chuikov,
The Battle for Stalingrad,
p. 99.

3

Jones,
Stalingrad,
pp. 118-19.

4

Chuikov,
The Battle for Stalingrad,
p.101.

5

Zaitsev,
Notes of a Russian Sniper,
pp. 12-13.

6

*
Archibald Perry,
Treason Et Atrocities: Germany’s Collaborators in World War II
(London: Blackheath Publishers, 1966), pp. 233-4.

7

*
Ewald von Kleist,
Caucasus Victory
(Frankfurt: Sandvoss, 1955), pp. 239-42.

8

Engel,
At the Heart of the Reich,
pp. 133-4.

9

Earl E. Ziemcke,
Stalingrad to Berlin: The German Defeat in the East
(New York: Barnes Et Noble, 1996), pp. 32-3.

10

Glantz,
Armageddon in Stalingrad,
p. 137.

11

Craig,
Enemy at the Gates,
p. 111.

12

*
Guy R. Williams,
Hitler and His Generals
(New York: Veni, Vidi, Vici, 1976), p. 199.

13

Jonathan Trigg,
Hitler’s Jihadis: Muslim Volunteers of the Waffen-SS
(Stroud: History Press, 2008), p. 47.

14

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
p. 152.

15

Beevor,
Stalingrad,
pp. 221-3.

16

Feldgrau
(field grey) was the colour of the German uniform. It was actually adopted in 1954 by the East German People’s Army (Volksarmee) which was at pains to explain that it was not really
Feldgrau
but
Steingrau
(stone grey), a case of ‘What’s in a name?’

17

*
Rupert Graf von Hentzau,
Hitler, Manstein, and the High Command: Derision on the Volga
(London: Greenhill, 1992), pp. 239-41.

18

Benoit Lemay,
Erich von Manstein: Hitler’s Master Strategist
(Philadelphia: Casemate, 2011), p. 392.

19

*
Albert Tomlinson,
The Stalingrad Plot Against Hitler
(New York: Veni, Vidi, Vici, 1977), p. 290.

20

Lemay,
Manstein,
p. 292.

21

*
Alexander Stahlberg,
Serving with Manstein on the Volga: The Memoirs of his Military Assistant
(London: Greenhill, 1985), p. 193.

22

Lemay,
Manstein,
p. 293.

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