D-Day. The Battle for Normandy

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
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THE PLOT AGAINST HITLER
    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