D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

1984, p. 779
    p. 199 ‘hated Laval, but not Pétain’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, p. 115
    ‘has left behind in Bayeux . . .’, Montgomery to Churchill, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
    p. 200 ‘In my opinion we should . . .’, No. 561, President to Prime Minister, 14 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
    ‘There is not a scrap . . .’, Churchill to Eden, 12 June, TNA PREM 3/339/7
    ‘Trojan horse’, Aron, p. 77
    ‘ Le panorama . . . ’, MdC TE 195 p. 201 ‘I simply cannot . . .’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
    Café owner, Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42
    ‘in the Middle Ages’, MdC TE 42 p. 202 Secours National, Céline Coantic-Dormoy, MdC TE 281
    ‘The English since . . .’ Le Dily diary, 11 June, MdC TE 143
    ‘ le troc ’, Claude Guillotin, 1944, ‘L’aventure de mes quinze ans’, Le Fresne-Camilly, MdC TE 397
    p. 203 ‘a senior officer of the Military Police . . .’, Dr Ian Campbell, RAMC, 2nd Field Dressing Station, SWWEC 2000.477
    ‘during the morning . . .’, MdC TE 144
    ‘musical chairs’ and ‘Now there’s no need . . .’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
    p. 205 Red Army, see Antony Beevor and Lyuba Vinogradova (eds.), A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941- 1945 , London, 2005, p. 109
    ‘The whole world . . .’, SS Untersturmführer Herbert E., 2.Kp./Nachr.Abt.SS. Pz.Div. ‘ Hohenstaufen ’, 6 June and 10 June, 24 742C, BfZ-SS
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    p. 208 ‘Within a week . . .’, Lieutenant (MC) Alfred A. Schiller, USN, CWM/ MCG 58A
    Omaha Beach command, NA II 407/427/ 212
    ‘Turn those prisoners...’, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘Those wounded paratroopers . . .’, Orval Wakefield (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC
    ‘We had an incident . . .’, Charles C. Zalewski, LST 134, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘One of our ship’s officers . . .’, Ralph Crenshaw, LST 44, NWWIIM-EC
    p. 209 trade in Lugers, Major John C. Geiglein, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War , Lexington, Kentucky, 2006, pp. 127-8
    bartering a truck-load of weapons, T/Sgt Eugene W. Griffin, 2nd Armored Division, WWII VS
    ‘a considerable laxity . . .’, Pogue, p. 87
    pig roasting, Angelos Chatas (Naval Combat Demolition Unit), NWWIIM-EC
    p. 210 ‘The [French] attitude is . . .’, NA II 407/427/212
    ‘The Mayor of Colleville . . .’, NA II 407/ 427/212
    p. 211 ‘Hermann’s Vermin’, Cyrus C. Aydlett, USS Bayfield , NWWIIM-EC
    ‘despite undisputed air supremacy . . .’, Leigh-Mallory, 1 July, Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Air Force, TNA ADM 1/ 16332
    p. 212 ‘an enemy sniper . . .’, Omar Bradley, A Soldier’s Story , New York, 1951, p. 292
    ‘When I saw that . . .’, John Troy, 8th Infantry, NWWIIM-EC
    91st Luftlande-Division, Oberst Eugen König, FMS B-010
    p. 214 ‘I was ordered to . . .’, Obergefreiter Hans S., 9.Kp./Gren.Rgt.1058, 91.(LL.) Inf.Div., 13 273 B, 7 July, BfZ-SS
    ‘a burly professor . . .’, Martin Blumenson, The Duel for France , New York, 2000, pp. 20-21
    ‘a pudgy man . . .’, ibid., p. 11
    ‘The commander-in-chief . . .’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418
    ‘he had lived a life . . .’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
    ‘the war was lost’, Generalleutnant von Choltitz, LXXXIV Corps, FMS B-418 p. 215 ‘refreshingly open-minded’, LHCMA Liddell Hart 11/1944/7
    ‘Montebourg and Valognes . . .’, TNA WO 205/5B
    ‘a Cub plane . . .’, operation of air support parties, NA II 407/427/24204
    p. 216 Mulberry and gale, ‘Artificial Harbours in Operation Overlord’, TNA ADM 1/17204
    ‘The only chance . . .’, Dean Rockwell, US Navy, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘It took us about . . .’, Werner Hugo Saenger, LST 27, NWWIIM-EC
    ‘I thank the gods . . .’, J. M. Stagg, Forecast for Overlord , London, 1971, p. 126
    ‘never really believed...’, Colonel Thomas Bigland, Montgomery’s personal liaison officer to First US Army, then 12th Army Group, SWWEC 99-10
    p. 217 tonnage and vehicles landed in August, Normandy Base Section Communications Zone, 8 September, Com Z, NA II 407/427/24133
    ‘a bit of plunder’, Oberst a.D. Dr Hans Kessler, BA-MA MSg 2/249
    ‘The men were tired . . .’, Lieutenant William Priestman, 315th Infantry, NA II 407/ 427/24242
    p. 218 ‘K Company . . .’, Lieutenant John E. Cunningham, 314th Infantry, 79th Infantry Division, NA II 407/427/24242
    ‘We fired back . .