Antony Beevor - D-Day - The Battle for Normandy

‘grinds to a halt…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150

‘Monty is determined to make us…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T2150

p. 367 ‘The crews were shaken…’, Ian Daglish, ‘Operation Bluecoat’, in John Buckley (ed.), The Normandy Campaign 1944 , London, 2006, p. 95

p. 369 326th Infanterie-Division, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

21st Panzer-Division, FMS B-631

3rd Scots Guards, Major Charles Farrell, SWWEC 2001.960

‘wearing only a vest…’, Alexander McKee, Caen , London, 1965, p. 308 p. 370 Coastal battery at Granville and Aulock Kampfgruppe , BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘unforgettable sight…’, Gefreiter Spiekerkötter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 256th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/5526

p. 371 ‘The situation is extraordinarily…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

‘a most forceful order…’, Telephone Journal, Seventh Army, NA II 407/427/ 6431

Kluge to Eberbach, Eberbach, BA-MA MSg 1/106

‘under all circumstances…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/86

p. 372 ‘Do not stop…’ and ‘facetiously suggested…’, General Doyle O. Hickey, Combat Command A, 3rd Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24088

p. 373 action in Brécey, Captain Carlton Parish Russell, 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, 3rd Armored Division, WWII VS

‘more dangerous than…’, Daily Operations, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/ 427/6431

‘a very jolly…’, Charles Whiting, Papa Goes to War , Marlborough, 1990, p. 66

p. 374 ‘take the first picture…’, Robert Capa, Slightly out of Focus , New York, 1947, p. 168

looting and lynch mob in Granville, Commissariat de Police de Granville, AdM 1370 W 1

‘ Ah, Monsieur …’, anon., MdC TE 388

‘Our boys got their souvenirs…’, Lieutenant D. S. Woodward, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24241

p. 375 Resistance attack in the Landes, LCMHA Misc 24

armoured train derailed Souillac, TNA DEFE 3/62

‘throughout history…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 493

‘As many troops as possible…’, XV Corps, NA II 407/427/24203

p. 376 ‘Gentlemen, this breakthrough…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘The enemy is not under any circumstances…’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy , London, 1951, p. 138

‘round the corner into Brittany’, NA II 407/427/6431

p. 377 ‘One of our trucks…’, Lieutenant Colonel Teague, 22nd Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24021

VIII Corps and First Army prisoners, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France , New York, 2000, pp. 143-4 and 150

prisoners of 8th Division, Captain Graham V. Chamblee, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘We passed columns…’, 29th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24034

rumours of German withdrawal to the Seine, Oberstleutnant Friedrich Freiherr von der Heydte, 6th Paratroop Regiment, FMS B-839

‘As we came over the crest…’, Lieutenant Colonel Johnson and Captain Wright, 12th Infantry, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24203

p. 378 ‘in a state of jitters’, Captain Wright, NA II 407/427/24203

Captain Ware’s account, NA II 407/427/ 24203

p. 379 ‘The small number of Germans…’, 4th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/ 6431

‘had a shattering effect…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, ETHINT 66

p. 381 ‘a written declaration…’, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘intensify general guerrilla activity…’, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘a second General Patton…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘a brawny, jovial type’, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France , New York, 2000, p. 166 p. 382 French Resistance in Rennes, 2nd Lieutenant Edward W. Overman, 90th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

relief of prisoners of war, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘One paratrooper…’, Captain Joseph Gray, 13th Infantry, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

p. 383 ‘What in hell…’,Blumenson, p. 176

‘General Patton’s Household Cavalry’, Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Goodwin, 6th Cavalry Group, NA II 407/427/24242

‘every night from…’, Captain John C. Donley, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/ 427/24241

p. 384 ‘The first thing we did…’, Lieutenant D. S. Woodward, 69th Tank Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘pony express’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241

replacements in Brittany, Captain John C. Donley, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/ 24241

‘better than expected…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 541

‘They aided in loading…’, William M. King, 44th Armored Infantry Battalion, 6th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘with the help of terrorists’, 6 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

‘ Terroristenführer ’, 6 August, Ob. West Tagesmeldungen, BA-MA RH 19 iv/45

‘battles with terrorists…’, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

massacres in Finisterre, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, pp. 576 and 579

Eon and Passy, SHD-DAT 13 P 33 p. 385Ramcke in Brest, see Lieb, pp. 483-4

‘to get a Hermann Goering…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘courteously got rid of…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

‘It was entirely wiped out!’, TNA WO 208/4364

‘The townspeople were so nice…’ and ‘We had a hair-cutting party…’, Lieutenant Harold H. Goodman, 8th Division, NA II 407/427/24241

p. 386 ‘I would not say this…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 532

p. 387 Leclerc’s attitude to British, Christian Girard, Journal de Guerre , Paris, 2000, p. 80

‘Even for us Gaullists…’, Marc de Possesse, MdC TE 361

‘a uniform different…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 178

p. 388 2ème DB landing on Utah beach, Marc de Possesse, MdC TE 361

French villagers marking mines, Alexander McKee, Caen , London, 1965, p. 315

‘Over in the next field…’, Sergeant Kite, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, BA-MA MSg 2/ 4837

p. 389 reinforcement of Vire, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923

‘The woods seemed to cast…’, Colonel Tom Gilliam, B Company, 2nd Infantry, 5th Infantry Division, MdC TE 124

‘We’ll defend your town…’, quoted in Blumenson, p. 215

p. 390 ‘Everyone very depressed…’, Myles Hildyard diary, 3 August, and letter, 5 August

‘the wretched wounded…’, Captain Michael Bendix, Coldstream Guards, SWWEC 2000-356

‘I could not help thinking…’, Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206

‘In the small fields of Normandy…’, quoted in Eversley Belfield and H. Essame, The Battle for Normandy , London, 1975, p. 206

p. 391 ‘To be the leading tank…’, Stanley Christopherson diary

p. 392 ‘because they slip on…’, Captain M. G. T. Webster, 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards, IWM P 182

‘in the recesses of a LST’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power , London, 1985, p. 500

‘The tank commander would…’, Captain Michael Bendix, Coldstream Guards, SWWEC 2000-356

‘a little German stretcher-bearer…’,Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, attached to 4th Dorsets, 43rd Wessex Division, IWM PP/MCR/206 p. 393 ‘Many of them probably…’, XXX Corps, TNA WO 171/342