The Second World War (160 page)

Authors: Antony Beevor

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‘
Don’t squeeze that trigger
’: Leckie,
Helmet for my Pillow
, p. 214

gyokusai
ideology of ‘death before dishonour
’: Kawano, ‘Japanese Combat Morale’, in Peattie, Drea and van de Ven,
The Battle for China
, p. 328

White Russians in Shanghai
: Wasserstein,
Secret War in Shanghai
, p. 239

nothing more than ‘
a hopeless crank
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 479

‘
You might as well eat
’:
ibid.
, 19.4.43, p. 394

31: The Battle of Kursk

here
For the best analysis of the Kursk operation, see David M. Glantz and Jonathan M. House,
The Battle of Kursk
, Lawrence, Kan., 1999; also Bellamy,
Absolute War

‘
Victory at Kursk
’: quoted Bellamy,
Absolute War
, p. 577

‘
When I think of this attack
’: General Heinz Guderian,
Panzer Leader
, New York, 1952, p. 247

‘
Each reconnaissance group
’: Mikhail Petrovich Chebykin,
http://www.ire-member.ru/pekhotintsi/chebikin-mikhail-petrovich/

here
German and Soviet strengths: Glantz and House,
The Battle of Kursk
, p. 65

Wittmann
: Patrick Agte,
Michael Wittmann and the Waffen SS Tiger Commanders of the Leibstandarte in World War II
, Mechanicsburg, Pa, 2006, vol. i, p. 60

Ultra and Luftwaffe airfields
: Christopher Andrew and Vasiliy Mitrokhin,
The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West
, London, 2000, pp. 135, 156, 159

Sikorski aircrash
: conversation with Victor Cazalet

‘
I believe that this
’: Fhj.Uffz. Werner K., 2.Bttr./le.Flak-Abt.74, BfZ-SS L 20 909 ‘
a wonderful image for the newsreels
’: Uffz. Herbert Peter S., 19.Pz.Div., 7.7.43, BfZ-SS 13 925

‘
If something of the sort
’: Sold. Karl K., 36.Inf.Div., 7.7.43, BfZ-SS 08 818C

‘
cannon-bird
’: Agte,
Michael Wittmann
, p. 100

‘
Our Luftwaffe is really fantastic
’: H’Fw. Willy P., 167.Inf.Div., BfZ-SS 19 279 D
‘shells hit them’, ‘A gun-layer fired
’: RGALI 1710/3/51

‘
My division is already
’: Uffz. Ludwig D., Stabs-Bttr./Art.Rgt.103, 4.Pz.Div., 12.7.43, BfZ-SS 44 705

‘
Ah, you bastards, you’re Vlasov men
’: Reshat Zevadinovich Sadredinov, 4th Battery of 1362nd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, 25th Anti-Aircraft Division, in Drabkin (ed.),
Svyashchennaya voina
, p. 137

‘
The Luftwaffe was bombing
’: RGALI 1710/3/51

‘
This was face-to-face
’, ‘The quieter it is’: RGALI 1710/3/51

‘everything was on fire’, ‘A lieutenant, wounded
’: RGALI 1710/3/51

Ninth Army losses
: Glantz and House,
The Battle of Kursk
, p. 121

‘
By midday
’: Pavel Rotmistrov, ‘Tanks against Tanks’, in John Erickson (ed.),
Main Front: Soviet Leaders Look Back on World War II
, London, 1987, pp. 106–9

‘
With an unbroken Stuka-spirit
’: Lt Paul D., III.Gru./St.G.2 ‘Immelmann’, 18.7.43, BfZ-SS L 16 641

‘
Those wearing camouflage
’: Amza Amzaevich Mamutov,
http://www.ire-member.ru/pekhotintsi/mamutov-amza-amzaevich/stranitsa-3.html

‘
It’s now very hot
’: San.Sold. Helmut P., 198.Inf.Div., 10.7.43, BfZ-SS 29 740

‘
In five days
’: Lt Paul D., III.Gru./St.G.2 ‘Immelmann’, 10.7.43, BfZ-SS L 16 641

‘
The Russians are keeping
’: O’Gefr. Robert B., 6.Pz.Div., 10.7.43, BfZ-SS 24 924

‘
What I saw left me
’: quoted in Frank Kurowski,
Panzer Aces
, Winnipeg, 1992, p. 279

‘
They were around us
’: Rudolf Lehmann,
The Leibstandarte
, vol. iii, Winnipeg, 1993, p. 234, quoted Glantz and House,
The Battle of Kursk
, p. 185

‘
The atmosphere was choking
’: Anatoly Volkov, quoted Lloyd Clark, ‘The Battle of Kursk 1943’ in
The Wishstream
, 2010, p. 140

‘
Tanks even rammed one another
’: Amza Amzaevich Mamutov,
http://www.iremember.ru/pekhotintsi/mamutov-amza-amzaevich/stranitsa-3.html

‘
Germans were crushed
’:
ibid.

‘
This war was never
’: Lt Paul D., III.Gru./St.G.2 ‘Immelmann’, 18.7.43, BfZ-SS L 16 641

Operation Rumyantsev, ‘For the weary German infantry
’: Glantz and House,
The Battle of Kursk
, pp. 246–7

‘
The smell of burning
’: RGALI 1710/3/50

‘
The men are now fighting
’: RGALI 1710/3/50

‘
The 1943 warrior
’: BA-MA RH 13/50, quoted
GSWW
, vol. ix/1, p. 597

‘
intellectual, introspective
’:
ibid.
, p. 598

32: From Sicily to Italy

‘
Their hearts are really in the Pacific
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, 15.4.43, p. 393

‘
He would have to meet
’: quoted Hastings,
Finest Years
, p. 375

‘
Allies must fight in separate
’: Blumenson (ed.),
The Patton Papers
, vol. ii, 28.4.43, p. 234

‘
He is a little fellow
’:
ibid.
, p. 237

‘
indignant that Giraud
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 414

‘
hordes of tiny craft
’: Jack Belden,
Still Time to Die
, New York, 1943, p. 269

‘
some menacing looking Arabs
’: quoted Rick Atkinson,
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
, New York, 2007, p. 40

‘
God certainly
’: Blumenson (ed.),
The Patton Papers
, vol. ii, p. 280

‘
From the high ground
’: Joe Kelley, SWWEC

‘
The people of this country
’: Blumenson (ed.),
The Patton Papers
, vol. ii, p. 291

‘
one could buy
’:
ibid.
, 20.7.43, p. 295
186 cases of VD
: Jim Williams, SWWEC

‘
the most disobeyed man
’: quoted Denis Mack Smith,
Mussolini
, London, 1981, p. 327

‘
I guess I can’t take it
’, etc., and ‘There’s no such thing’: Atkinson,
The Day of Battle
, pp. 147–8

‘
after the war
’: Blumenson (ed.),
The Patton Papers
, vol. ii, pp. 313–14

‘
The Führer is determined
’:
TBJG
, part II, vol. ix, p. 460

HMS
Warspite
and HMS
Petard
: Reg Crang, SWWEC,
Everyone’s War
, no. 20, Winter 2009

‘You’re slipping Jimmy’, ‘Putting the city
’: GBP, Dec. 1943

‘
a broken man
’: Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant
, p. 347 (‘ein gebrochener Mann’)

‘We stood to at dawn
’: Michael Howard,
Captain Professor: A Life in War and Peace
, London, 2006, p. 73

‘
That we will win
’: Nachlass Jodl, 7.11.43, BA-MA N 69/17

33: Ukraine and the Teheran Conference

‘
There were cases
’: RGALI 619/1/953

‘
Children, sons
’: Reshat Zevadinovich Sadredinov in Drabkin (ed.),
Svyashchennaya voina
, p. 196

‘
We collected those
’: Mikhail Petrovich Chebykin,
http://www.iremember.ru/pekhotintsi/chebikin-mikhail-petrovich/

‘
Some peasant families’, ‘a little wizened
’: GBP

‘
Old men, when they
’: RGALI 1710/1/100

‘
This was the murder
’: RGALI 1710/1/101

‘
measures to shorten
’:
Moskovskaya Konferentsiya Ministrov Inostrannykh Del SSSR, SShA i Velikobritanii
, Moscow, 1984, quoted Roberts,
Stalin’s Wars
, p. 177

‘
little wooden box’ etc
.: GBP

‘
The Generalissimo
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, 23.11.43, p. 477

‘
I am speaking about this
’: Berezhkov,
At Stalin’s Side
, p. 239

‘
India is Churchill’s
’: Berezhkov,
History in the Making
, p. 259

‘
must be punished
’: quoted Roberts,
Stalin’s Wars
, p. 181

‘
Now the fate of Europe
’: Beria,
Beria, my Father
, p. 92

‘
a mission that is delicate and morally reprehensible
’:
ibid.
, p. 93

Roosevelt and Churchill on Poland
:
ibid.
, p. 94

‘
won the game
’:
ibid.
, p. 95

‘
Now he sees that he cannot
’: Charles Moran,
Winston Churchill: The Struggle for Survival, 1940–1945
, London, 1966, 28 and 29 November 1943

‘
Well, Ike, you are
’: Dwight D. Eisenhower,
Crusade in Europe
, London, 1948, p. 227

Chiefs of staff and end of war
: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, 7.12.43, p. 492

‘
fighting in reverse gear
’: 27.1.44,
GSWW
, vol. ix/1, p. 614

‘
We are living in filth. It is hopeless
’: Werth,
Leningrad
, p. 81

34: The Shoah by Gas

‘
insatiable ambition
’: SS Brigadeführer Dr Werner Best, quoted Padfield,
Himmler
, p. 361

‘
historic task
’: Browning,
The Origins of the Final Solution
, p. 415

‘
They had been given
’: Rudolf Hoess,
Commandant of Auschwitz
, London, 2000, p. 121

‘
They were no longer human beings
’:
ibid.
, p. 124

‘
going up the chimney
’: Hermann Müller, quoted Diarmuid Jeffreys,
Hell’s Cartel: IG Farben and the Making of Hitler’s War Machine
, New York, 2008, p. 322

‘
People were deceived
’: report by Shikin, deputy chief of the Main Political Department of the Red Army, 9.2.45, RGASPI 17/125/323, pp. 1–4

‘
It is not a
Weltanschauungs
-question
’: 24.4.43, IMT 1919 PS

‘
prototype serums and drugs
’: Jeffreys,
Hell’s Cartel
, p. 327

‘
I have the opportunity
’:
ibid.
, p. 328

‘
a coarse, stupid
’: Hoess,
Commandant of Auschwitz
, p. 19, Primo Levi’s introduction

‘
I find it incredible
’:
ibid.
, p. 135

‘
many of the women hid their babies
’:
ibid.
, p. 149

‘
They carried out all
’:
ibid.
, p. 152

‘
People were told that
’: RGALI 1710/1/123

‘
the one-eyed German
’: ibid.

‘
the earth is throwing out
’: ibid.

‘
We faced the question
’: quoted Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
, p. 605