Road of Bones (84 page)

p. 390 ‘The tactical ability’
Ibid.

p. 390 ‘It is my resolve’
Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi, Special Order of the Day, cited in Arthur Swinson,
Four Samurai
(Hutchinson, 1968), pp. 143–4.

p. 390 ‘We got an order’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 391 ‘Near his house’
Captain Seiryo Yamashita, cited in Kazuo Tamayama and John Nunneley,
Tales by Japanese Soldiers
(Cassell, 2000), p. 191.

p. 391 ‘“Aircrafts is coming!”’
IWM Swinson papers, file no. NRA 28568, Yukihiko Imai,
To and From Kohima
(1953).

p. 391 ‘You never tell until’
Ryoichi Tobe, Edited by Brian Bond and Kyoichi Tachikawa,
Tojo Hideki As A War Leader, British and Japanese
Military Leadership in the Far Eastern War, 1941–1945.
(Frank Cass, 2004), p. 35.

p. 391 ‘was perplexed, holding’
Ibid.

p. 391 ‘Mutaguchi was in’
Kawabe Nikki, cited in Louis Allen,
Burma: The
Longest War
(J. M. Dent, 1984), p. 265.

p. 392 ‘I guessed Kawabe’s’
Cited in Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
, p. 266.

p. 393 ‘link up with’
15th Army signal to 31st Division, 9 June 1944, cited in Allen,
Burma, The Longest War
, p. 289.

p. 393 ‘I was flabbergasted’
Lieutenant General Kotuku Sato, handwritten memoir, for Retsu Division War Veterans Association.

p. 393 ‘Do you intend to’
Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
, p. 292.

p. 394 ‘recognizable as Japanese’
Cited in Swinson,
Four Samurai
, p. 145.

p. 394 ‘I feel confident that’
NAM, Colvin Papers, Intelligence Bulletin no. 247.

p. 394 ‘violent and angry’
NA, WO 303/6320, Essays and Interrogations of Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara.

p. 394 ‘Get your fat arse’
Cited in Swinson,
Four Samurai
, p. 142.

p. 394 ‘Surprised by its’
NA, WO 303/6320. Essays and Interrogations of Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara.

p. 395 ‘Despair became rife’
Ibid.

p. 396 ‘Then, I complained’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 396 ‘a complete breakdown’
NA, WO 303/6320. Essays and Interrogations of Lieutenant Colonel Iwaichi Fujiwara.

p. 397 ‘He heard what happened’
Soichi Shiramizu,
The Starving
Mountains
(Ashi Shobo, 1972), pp. 123–4.

p. 397 ‘Please share this’
Ibid.

p. 397 ‘He said: “General”’
Ibid.

p. 397 ‘Sometimes I met’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 398 ‘We were so angry’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 398 ‘Sometimes I even’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 398 ‘The hospital staff’
The Listener
, 21 September 1944.

p. 398 One of the most chilling
Hamachi Toshio,
Inparu sai-zensen
, pp. 243–4, cited in Allen,
Burma: The Longest War
, p. 296.

p. 399 ‘Our task remains’
NA, WO 203/6388, Order of the Day, 10 May 1944.

p. 399 ‘We had been sodden’
Captain P. P. S. Brownless,
Undercover in the
Jungle
, p. 104, cited in Jon Latimer,
Burma: The Forgotten War
(John Murray, 2004), p. 321.

p. 401 ‘He died soon afterwards’
Second World War Experience Centre . Narrative of Lieutenant
Desmond F. Earley, Essex Regiment, 23 Long Range Penetration Brigade.

p. 401 ‘an attempt to stage’
NA, WO 203/6388, ‘Operations of the 23rd British Infantry Brigade Naga Hills, April – July 1944.’

p. 401 ‘Early in the morning’
RMAA, Pawsey Papers, Kumbho Angami, ‘Account of Column 76, 23 Brigade Against the Japs.’

p. 401 ‘This [area] was’
Ibid.

p. 402 ‘This Naga wanted’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 402 ‘Several noses of’
NA, WO 172/4587, ‘V Force Sitrep No. I 2911 OF 12th Aug, 1944.’

p. 402 ‘ear and pay book’
Ibid.

p. 402 ‘littered with Jap’
Ibid.

p. 402 ‘It was hell’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 402 ‘I saw the dead’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 402 ‘I found out people’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 403 ‘When I heard of it’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 403 ‘Just like taking’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 403 ‘In tears some of’
Kazou Tamayama and John Nunneley,
Tales by
Japanese Soldiers
(Cassell, 2000), p. 201.

p. 403 ‘You’ve lorded it’
Ibid.

p. 403 ‘thousands upon thousands’
Manabu Wada,
Drifting Down the
Chindwin: A Story of Survival
(Burma Campaign Fellowship Group).

p. 404 ‘You want a statement’
Swinson,
Four Samurai
, p 148.

p. 404 ‘General Sato is always’
Shudo Akiyama,
The Retsu Division
Commander Goes Insane
(Shueisha, Tokyo, 1973).

p. 405 ‘They are leading the’
Signal from Lieutenant General Kotuku Sato to Staff Officer Mori, 15 July 1944, cited in Akiyama,
The Retsu Division
Commander Goes Insane.

p. 405 ‘I don’t need a health’
Ibid.

p. 405 ‘How come you cannot’
Ibid.

p. 405 ‘The attitude, facial expression’
‘Mental Health Examination of the Retsu Division Leader in Imphal Campaign by Dr Yamashita’,
Kyushu
Neuropsychiatry Journal
(1978).

p. 406 ‘Please … please don’t’
Cited in
War Chronicle of a Home Military
Unit
(Military Unit Publication Society, Fukuoka, 1962).

p. 406 Some dying men
Cited in Kozo Sugita,
Military Officer of Rebellion
(Kosaida publishing, Tokyo, 1995), pp. 171–4.

p. 406 ‘V Force patrol shot’
NA, WO 172/4587, ‘V Force Situation reports.

p. 407 ‘One could not visit’
Lord Louis Mountbatten,
Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander South-East Asia, 1943–1946
, ed. by Philip Ziegler (Collins, 1988), p. 116.

p. 407 ‘everything in their’
Ibid.

p. 408 ‘It was difficult to’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 408 ‘presence of war’
NA, WO 203/4637, ‘Personal Narratives of the Kohima and Imphal Battles.’

p. 408 August 1944: There has
NA, WO 208/799, Governor’s Reports on the Assam Tribal Areas, August and September 1944.

p. 408 ‘While the wilder’
Ibid.
, citing ‘Report on the Assam Tribal Areas for the month ending June 30th 1945, by J. P. Mills, Esqr, C.I.E., I.C.S., Advisor to the Governor of Assam For Tribal Areas’.

p. 409 ‘most of our people’
Sajal Nag,
Contesting Marginality: Ethnicity, Insurgency and Subnationalism in North-East India
(Manohar, 2002), p. 89.

p. 409 ‘meant the rule’
Ibid.
, p. 91.

p. 410 ‘In the lengthening light’
Ursula Graham Bower,
Naga Path
(John Murray, 1952), p. 211.

p. 410 ‘pert, pretty’
‘India: Ursula and the Naked Nagas’,
Time
, 1 January 1945.

p. 410 ‘An extraordinary girl’
Ibid.

p. 410 ‘How could one explain’
Ursula Graham Bower,
The Hidden Land
(John Murray, 1953), p. 238.

p. 411 ‘His was officially’
IWM, file no. 12438 03/23/1, diary of Lieutenant B. K. ‘Barry’ Bowman.

p. 411 ‘What with bloody Dunkirk’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 20461, interview with Private Ivan Daunt.

p. 411 ‘As I woke up’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 412 ‘That’s me finished’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 412 ‘You’ve done me’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 412 ‘Everybody was needed’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 413 ‘Dad would be’
Robert Street,
A Brummie in Burma
(Barny Books, 1997), p. 62.

p. 413 ‘Wellington Massar belonged’
Ibid.

p. 413 ‘His bereaved aunt’
NA, WO 172/5045, War Diary of the 1st Assam Regiment, Appendix A, ‘Citation and Speeches made on 20th August
1944 at investiture of the I.D.S.M. won posthumously by No.1778 Sepoy Wellington Massar.’

p. 415 ‘We’d had enough’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 415 ‘I will not say that’
Hansard, HC Deb (series 5) (29 September 1944) vol. 403 cc 605–707.

p. 415 ‘These are the men’
Ibid.

p. 415 ‘whose homes have’
Ibid.

p. 416 ‘above all for a’
NA, CAB 66/59/22.

p. 416 ‘though the fighting’
NA, WO 222/158, ‘Divisional Psychiatry’, Captain Paul Davis.

p. 416 ‘I had the most’
Mountbatten,
Personal Diary of Admiral the Lord
Louis Mountbatten
, p. 116.

p. 416 ‘we saw him go’
Field Marshal Lord Slim,
Defeat into Victory
(Cassell, 1956), p. 385.

p. 417 ‘was never able’
Robert Lyman,
Slim: Master of War
(Constable and Robinson, 2004), p. 237.

p. 417 With exasperating discretion
Slim,
Defeat into Victory
, p. 523.

p. 417 ‘The blokes just went mad’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 417 ‘Finally they realised’
Robert Street,
The Siege of Kohima: The Battle for Burma
(Barny Books, 2003), p. 147.

p. 417 ‘Naw. You can’t be like’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 418 ‘I said to him’
IWM, Oral History Project, file no. 25696, interview with Frank Infanti.

p. 418 ‘I made them dig’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 418 ‘Hiroshima was dead’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 419 ‘I telephoned to’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 419 ‘I told him’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 419 ‘Everybody was crying’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 420 ‘officers and men engaged’
John Dower,
Embracing Defeat: Japan in
the Aftermath of World War II
(Penguin, 1999), p. 59.

p. 420 ‘vast stretches of’
Hans H. Baerwald,
Postwar Japan: A Reminiscence
(Japan Policy Research Institute, 2002).

p. 420 ‘My children wanted’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 421 ‘I want to take’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 421 ‘He pawned stuff’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 421 ‘I sensed it as a’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 421 ‘I will leave’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 421 ‘Afterwards he asked’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 422 ‘It was so sad’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 422 ‘I was careful of’
Memories of Kotuku Sato by his Daughter Yukiko Matsumura.

p. 422 ‘He was nothing but’
Essay by Fumiko Sato, cited in ‘Burma Campaign Memoir’, Retsu 10708 Unit Veterans Group.

p. 423 ‘I didn’t have a’
Interviewed for this book.

p. 423 ‘Some said’
NDL, Interview with Lieutenant General Renya Mutaguchi, 1965.

p. 423 ‘General Sato passed away’
Ibid.