D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

Division , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., p. 188
    ‘I could have cried . . .’, ibid., p.191
    p. 180 ‘He had tried to make . . .’, ibid., p.197
    killing of prisoners in Normandy, TNA TS 26/856
    ‘about thirty Canadian . . .’, Nelly Quidot, MdC TE 228
    killings at Abbaye d’Ardennes, Sergeant Frank Geoffrey, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 181 ‘dare-devil’, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 163
    Kurt Meyer executing Jews in Poland, ibid., p. 159
    ‘the men show signs . . .’, Ultra intercepts passed by ‘C’ to Churchill on 11 June, TNA HW 1/2927
    location of headquarters of Panzer Group West, TNA KV 7171 and KV 7225
    p. 182 ‘all personnel . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    p. 183 ‘a gutless bugger’, TNA WO 205/ 5D
    p. 184 ‘pull the Germans . . .’, TNA WO 205/5B
    ‘Inaction and a defensive mentality . . .’, TNA PREM 3/339/1, p. 6
    ‘to assault to the west . . .’, LHCMA De Guingand 2/1/1-6
    ‘a peevish imperialism’, Army Group intelligence summary, 23 April 1944, TNA WO 205/532 (2)
    ‘to block the enemy’s . . .’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
    p. 185 ‘the key to Cherbourg’, General Omar Bradley, OCMH-FPP
    ‘By premature commitment . . .’, Generalmajor Fritz Krämer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024
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    p. 187 ‘The fury of artillery ...’, Vernon Scannell, Argument of Kings , London, 1987, p. 165
    ‘The smart, keen . . .’, ibid., p. 156
    ‘The thing that shocked . . .’, Major Peter Griffin, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, NAC/ANC R5067-0-0-E
    ‘broke down’, Lieutenant Colonel Terence Otway, SWWEC T689
    p. 188 ‘He is not very impressive . . .’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945 , New York, 1974, p. 461
    Dempsey, see Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy , New York, 1983, p. 60
    p. 189 ‘You’ll get a shock . . .’, Arthur Reddish, A Tank Soldier’s Story , privately printed, undated, p. 29
    ‘Bucknall was very weak’, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, War Diaries 1939-1945 , London, 2001, p. 538 (7 April)
    Bucknall and Bayeux, LHCMA, Liddell Hart 11/1944/36
    p. 190 General Maxwell D. Taylor, SODP p. 191 entry into Villers-Bocage, M. Diguet, MdC TE 220
    ‘We have only one . . .’, Patrick Agte, Michael Wittmann , Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2006, p. 354
    p. 192 11th Hussars and prisoner from 2nd Panzer-Division, Dudley Clarke, The Eleventh at War , London, 1952, p. 339; and Myles Hildyard, who says in his diary that they strangled one guard and seized the other
    Ultra on 2nd Panzer-Division, TNA KV 7707
    p. 193 artillery regiment firing airbursts, NA II 407/427/24170
    Aunay-sur-Odon, Abbé André Paul, MdC TE 21
    p. 194 ‘The fighting in the west . . .’, 15 June, Unteroffizier Leopold L., 25 644 = 5.Kp./Pz.Rgt.3, 2.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
    ‘131 Brigade . . .’, Myles Hildyard diary, 19 June
    ‘a very poor showing . . .’, Major General G. L. Verney diary, quoted in D’Este, pp. 272-4
    ‘The famous Desert Rats . . .’, Stanley Christopherson diary
    p. 195 ‘it was no good grousing . . .’, J. L. Cloudsley-Thompson, Sharpshooter , Fleet Hargate, 2006, p. 109
    ‘design fault’, Lieutenant General Richard O’Connor to Churchill, 5 May, LHCMA O’Connor 5/2/39
    ‘a Tiger and Panther complex’, letter, 12 June, TNA WO205/5B
    ‘We are outshot . . .’, Algiers, 23 August 1943, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower , London, 1946, p. 339
    ‘The squadron left . . .’, anonymous diary entry, 11 June, MdC TE 396
    Eisenhower to Marshall, Brigadier Joseph A. Holly, 5 July, PDDE, p. 1973
    p. 196 ‘I have received . . .’, No. 695, Prime Minister to President, 9 June, TNA PREM 3/472
    ‘passed convoys...’, Alanbrooke, pp. 556-7 (12 June)
    p. 197 ‘There has been a recognizable . . .’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
    ‘We went and had . . .’, TNA PREM 3/ 339/7
    HMS Ramillies , Admiral G. B. Middleton, IWM 01/2/1
    ‘a slight display . . .’ and ‘General de Gaulle’s personal flag . . .’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, 16 June, TNA ADM 1/16018
    p. 198 ‘Has it occurred . . .’, quoted in Henri Amouroux, La grande histoire , Vol. VIII, p. 546, and Robert Aron, Histoire de la Libération de la France , Paris, 1959, p. 78
    ‘did little to ingratiate them . . .’, report of British Naval Liaison Officer, TNA PREM 3/339/7
    ‘ Monsieur le curé . . .’, Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle - Le Rebelle , Paris,