Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

p. 311 Operations Goodwood and Atlantic, NA II 407/427/24200

‘pre-recorded wireless traffic’, A. D. E. Curtis, R Force, SWWEC 2000.384

‘We’ll be moving into top gear!’, N. F. Burrell, 1/7th Queens, 131st Infantry Brigade, 7th Armoured Division, SWWEC LEEWW 2004.2680

‘We are undoubtedly…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150

p. 313 ‘a bit of mistletoe…’, quoted in Laurence Whistler, The Laughter and the Urn: The Life of Rex Whistler , London, 1985, p. 287

Tedder and Coningham on Goodwood, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, p. 151, AHB

p. 314 RAF report on Goodwood bombing, Air Support, Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, AHB

p. 315 ‘like cars crawling…’, Whistler, p. 289

p. 316 ‘Prisoners are streaming in…’, Major Peter Griffin, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, NAC/ANC R5067-0-0-E

‘a breakthrough appeared unavoidable’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS B-840

‘completely overrun’ and ‘Some tanks had received direct hits…’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘At 10.00 hours…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

‘Suddenly a Sherman…’, W. H. Close, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, SWWEC 2002.1713

p. 317 ‘What happened was incomprehensible…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

p. 318 ‘death ride’, Alexander McKee, Caen: Anvil of Victory , London, 1965, p. 263

five Tiger tanks and eight Mark IVs, Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, FMS B-441

‘no more reserves’, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86; and Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, BA-MA MSg 2/4831

1st SS Panzer-Division at Ifs-Bras, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86 p. 319 ‘Operations this morning…’, quoted in L. F. Ellis, Victory in the West , London, 1962, Vol. I, pp. 344-5

‘like children’, Brigadier E. T. Williams, G-2, 21st Army Group, OCMH-FPP

‘We were fighting…’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS B-840

p. 320 ‘The enemy needed only…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

Hitler Jugend tank losses to fighter-bombers, Tagesmeldungen, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘the British continued to stay immobile…’, Eberbach, Panzer Group West, FMS B-840

‘found him in grand form…’, 19 July, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 571

p. 321 ‘Russian style’ breakthrough and press conferences, Lieutenant Colonel Kraminov, MdC TE 246

‘a field strewn…’, N. F. Burrell, 1/7th Queens, SWWEC LEEWW 2004.2680

p. 322 ‘There comes a time…’, Bill Close, A View from the Turret , Tewkesbury, 1998, p. 130

‘Either it was just gross…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150

‘It rained and there were mosquitoes…’, Rev. Jim Wisewell, 223rd Field Ambulance, 3rd Infantry Division, SWWEC T1141

British and Canadian losses in Normandy, TNA WO 171/139

p. 323 army complaints about the lack of bombs on Bourguébus ridge, Air Support , Air Publication 3235, Air Ministry, 1955, p. 158, AHB

‘General Montgomery was reminded…’, Royal Air Force Narrative, Vol. III, p. 81, AHB; and 2nd TAF Operations Report by Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, TNA AIR 20/1593

‘a national decline in boldness and initiative’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/ 1944/45

p. 324 ‘But once the needle…’, Brigadier Sir Ian Fraser, MdC TE 160

‘One boy of about sixteen…’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power , London, 1985, p. 474

p. 326 ‘inflexible mission of defending…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721

‘The Führer must be killed…’, TNA WO 208/4363

‘and above all about…’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy , London, 1951, p. 132

‘a hardline anti-semite’, Richard J. Evans, The Third Reich at War , London, 2008,p. 379

‘measures to be taken immediately…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721 p. 327 ‘oasis’ for the Resistance, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

for an excellent analysis of the Allies and the German opposition to Hitler, see Michael Howard, Liberation or Catastrophe? , London, 2007, pp. 80-93

p. 329 move of Führer headquarters on 14 July to Wolfsschanze , General Warlimont, ETHINT 5

I must request you…’, Generalleutnant Hans Speidel, FMS B-721

‘We are experiencing the overwhelming…’, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079

p. 330 ‘The longer Hitler…’, 21st Army Group Intelligence Summary, 23 April 1944, TNA WO 205/532 (2)

‘The Chiefs of Staff…’, Ismay to Churchill, 21 June, TNA HS 6/623

Operation Foxley, TNA HS 6/624, and Mark Seaman (ed.), Operation Foxley , Kew, 1998

Churchill’s views on Hitler and unconditional surrender, TNA HS 6/625; and Churchill’s speech in House of Commons 2 August 1944

p. 331 ‘Since the generals have…’, quoted in Ian Kershaw, Hitler: 1936- 1945, Nemesis , London, 2000, p. 656

p. 332 ‘strikingly large briefcase’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5

British fuses used in bomb, M. R. D., Foot, SOE in France , London, 1966, p. 331 n5

p. 333 ‘over a million foreign workers…’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland , ETHINT 63

p. 334 ‘Gestapo riot’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284

‘executive powers had been passed…’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland , ETHINT 63

‘What do you know about the situation?’, Otto Remer, Commander Guard Regiment Grossdeutschland , ETHINT 63

p. 335 ‘The Führer is dead…’, quoted in Ralph Bennett, Ultra in the West , New York, 1979, p. 110

‘Today at midday…’, 20.40 hours, 20 July, Tagesmeldungen, Heeresgruppe B, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

p. 336 ‘ Unterweltsmarschall ’, Blumentritt, FMS B-284

Dietrich and Himmler, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/1079

‘almost turned revolutionary’, Eberbach, TNA WO 208/4363, quoted in Sönke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals , St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 101

‘In my opinion…’, TNA WO 208/4363 p. 337 ‘Long live holy Germany!’, quoted in Kershaw, p. 683

Kluge’s order to arrest Stülpnagel, BA-MA RH19 ix/86

‘the Military Commander…’, BA-MA RH19 ix/86

‘came like a bomb-shell’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘it spread like wild-fire…’, Hans Höller, 21st Panzer-Division, MdC TE 98

‘the front kept on fighting…’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘indignation and anger’, Eberbach, 23 December tape, TNA WO 208/4364

‘Our signaller heard…’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

p. 338 ‘feeling of moral oppression…’, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308

‘might well be the proverbial…’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor , London, 2006, p. 245

‘Explanation of Continued German Resistance’, 8 September 1944, LHCMA Alanbrooke 6/1/5

p. 339 ‘an idiotic idea’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘falsification of the enemy situation’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg Pa., 2005, p. 36

‘daily reports which even…’, General Bülowius, II Flieger Corps, FMS B-620

p. 340 ‘had a really good relationship…’, Günter Peuckert, 272th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5424

‘ malgré-nous ’, Nicolas Fank, 116th Panzer-Division, MdC TE 531

‘No, no. I play no tricks…’, Aitken, Medical Officer, 24th Lancers, WLHUM RAMC 1668

p. 341 ‘If somebody betrays…’, 1944, BA-MA RH 21-5/50, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 439