D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

soldier? . . .’, Sherman Oyler, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC p. 27 ‘We were surprised as dickens . . .’, Edward J. Jeziorski, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 28 ‘One trooper asked . . .’, Tomaso William Porcella, 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘We ask you . . .’, Prime Minister to Stalin, 14 April, TNA PREM 3/472
    p. 29 ‘One should not forget . . .’, Stalin to Prime Minister, TNA PREM 3/333/5
    ‘We have heard from other sources . . .’, Gusev diary, AVPRF 59a/7/p13/6, pp. 357-8
    p. 30 Vishinsky, AVPRF 06/6/p2/d22, p. 147
    ‘I have just returned . . .’, Prime Minister to Stalin, 5 June, TNA PREM 3/346
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    p. 31 ‘They are supposed . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    p. 32 Christmas boxes for the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour , London, 2002, p. 79
    ‘just a bit of cheap bluff’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
    Rommel also wanting to abandon Italy, Generalleutnant Speidel, Chief of Staff Army Group B, FMS B-718-720
    p. 33 ‘not favourably received’, Shulman interview with Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, October 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West , London, 1986, p. 107
    ‘We considered the repulse . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    ‘The face of the war . . .’, Leutnant Kurt Flume diary, 1 June 1944, BfZ-SS
    p. 35 ‘When the Government . . .’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy , London, 1951, p. 88
    p. 36 ‘If he does not do . . .’, IfZ, NOKW- 546, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 121
    panzer army near Paris, Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, ETHINT 38
    Rommel and Allied air supremacy, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
    identification of likely landing sites, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/ 24231
    p. 37 dummy minefields, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
    ‘ear and stomach battalions’, Lieb, p. 106
    ‘it is really sad . . .’, Heinrich Böll, Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945 , Vol. II, Cologne, 2001, p. 918
    ‘No good replacements . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    p. 38 ‘apprehensive impression ...’, BA-MA RH 19 iv/129, 28.12.1943, quoted in Lieb, p. 123
    ‘Plutokratenstaaten Amerika und England’ , IfZ, MA-1024, quoted in Lieb, p. 120
    ‘very different . . .’, Fernand Louvoy, MdC TE 38
    p. 39 ‘You will be liberated . . .’, Madame Richer, Bayeux, MdC TE 223
    ‘With this division . . .’, General-leutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    ‘could hardly understand . . .’, Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, FMS B-441
    p. 40 ‘He was of Spartan-like . . .’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
    ‘a conqueror’s paradise’, interview with General der Infanterie Blumentritt, February 1946, Shulman, p. 60
    ‘The enemy will certainly . . .’, Truppeningenieur, Stab/Pz.Pi.Btl.86, 9.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
    p. 41 ‘They had done nothing . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    ‘King’s Own German Grenadiers’, Shulman interview with Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, October 1945, Shulman, p. 110
    ‘the Canada Division’, Speidel, p. 98
    Bayeux Wehrmacht facilities, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500 p. 42 ‘I have here . . .’, undated letter from Hauptfeldwebel Helmut Lichtenfels, Folder Newbold, Stefan, DDEL
    ‘I will behave . . .’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
    ‘Don’t be too concerned . . .’, Unteroffizier Leopold L., 5.Kp./Pz.Rgt.3, 2.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
    weather conditions, Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Admiral bei der Heeresgruppe B, FMS A-982; and Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
    p. 43 ‘Well, another false . . .’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 87
    ‘Couriers and individual soldiers . . .’, Generalleutnant Mahlmann, 353rd Infantry-Division, FMS A-983; and Oberst Cordes, Alfred Weißkopf, AdM 2 J 695
    ‘made statements...’, Oberstleutnant Fritz Ziegelmann, 352nd Infantry Division, FMS B-021
    Alert Stage II, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308; and Admiral Friedrich Ruge, FMS B-282
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