The Second World War (162 page)

Conversation between Jan Stanis
aw Jankowski and Jan Nowak-Jeziora
ski
: W
adys
aw Bartoszewski,
Abandoned Heroes of the Warsaw Uprising
, Kraków, 2008, p. 17

‘
the hour of action
’: MPW

‘
If Stalin would use his own
’: Timothy Snyder,
Bloodlands
, p. 298

Attack on Warsaw concentration camp
: 5.8.44, Snyder,
Bloodlands
, p. 302

‘
One bullet–One German
!’: Dorota Niemczyk (ed.),
Brok Eugeniusz Lokajski, 1908–1944
, Warsaw, 2007; and MPW

‘
When he jumped down
’: Bartoszewski,
Abandoned Heroes of the Warsaw Uprising
, p. 50

Dirlewanger in Warsaw
: Generaloberst Hans Friessner,
Verratene Schlachten
, Hamburg, 1956, p. 205

‘
strategically useless
’: Alexander,
The Alexander Memoirs
, p. 136

‘
There are no Germans
’: quoted Maj. Gen. Kenner, chief medical officer SHAEF, OCMH-FPP

‘
We must march on Paris
’: interview with Gen. de Faulle, OCMH-FPP

‘
In fighting Warsaw
’: Jan Lissowski, in Niemczyk (ed.),
Brok Eugeniusz Lokajski

‘
Let’s dance a mazurka again
’: Roman Loth, in Niemczyk (ed.),
Brok Eugeniusz Lokajski

Bombing and IG Farben at Auschwitz III
: see Jeffreys,
Hell’s Cartel
, pp. 288–9

‘
We await you red plague
’: quoted Snyder,
Bloodlands
, p. 308

41: The Ichig
Offensive and Leyte

Japanese losses due to starvation
: Akira Fujiwara,
Uejini shita eireitachi
, Tokyo, 2001, pp. 135–8, quoted Collingham,
The Taste of War
, pp. 10 and 303

‘
white pigs
’, ‘
black pigs
’: Ogawa Sh
ji,
Kyokugen no Naka no Ningen: Shi no Shima Ny
ginia
, Tokyo, 1983, p. 167

‘
it was not guerrillas
’: Nogi Harumichi,
Kaigun Tokubetsu Keisatsutai: Anbon Shima Bomber Command Ky
Senpan no Shuki
, Tokyo, 1975, p. 207, quoted Tanaka,
Hidden Horrors
, p. 114

‘We got the order to retreat
’: Al Ying Yunping, quoted Hastings,
Nemesis
, p. 12

‘
One man in three
’: White and Jacoby,
Thunder out of China
, p. 187

‘
rooting out traitors
’: Yang Kuisong, ‘Nationalist and Communist Guerrilla Warfare’, in Peattie, Drea and van de Ven,
The Battle for China
, p. 324

For repression, torture and the Maoist personality cult
, see Chang and Halliday,
Mao
, pp. 288–305

For Stilwell and Hurley’s meeting with Chiang Kai-shek
see Romanus and Sunderland,
Stilwell’s Command Problems
, pp. 379–84; Tuchman,
Stilwell
, pp. 493–4; Spector,
Eagle against the Sun
, pp. 368–9

‘
acquiesce in an unenlightened
’: quoted in Barbara W. Tuchman,
Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45
, New York, 1971, p. 646

vilification of Chiang Kai-shek
: van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 3; White and Jacoby,
Thunder out of China
, New York, 1946

‘
A full and open explanation
’: quoted van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 60

here
Effects of Ichig
Offensive: Asano Toyomi, ‘Japanese Operations in Yunnan and North Burma’, in Peattie, Drea and van de Ven,
The Battle for China
, p. 361

‘
so many eggs
’: Fukudome quoted Spector,
Eagle against the Sun
, p. 424

42: Unrealized Hopes

German atrocities during the retreat through Belgium
: William I. Hitchcock,
Liberation: The Bitter Road to Freedom: Europe, 1944–1945
, London, 2008, pp. 61–3

‘
miraculously grafted
’: Bradley,
A Soldier’s Story
, New York, 1965

‘
Monty does what he pleases
’: Blumenson (ed.),
The Patton Papers
, vol. ii, p. 548

‘
Steady, Monty
!’: reported Maj. Gen. M. A. P. Graham, quoted Wilmot,
The Struggle for Europe
, p. 560

‘
Had the pious
’: Omar N. Bradley,
A Soldier’s Story
, New York, 1961, p. 409

‘
We are mentally and morally
’: Sold. W. W., Flak-Rg.291, A.O.K.16, BA-MA RH 13 v. 53

‘
liability
’: quoted Roberts,
Masters and Commanders
, p. 523

‘
into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral
’: quoted Martin Gilbert,
The Second World War
, London, 1989, p. 592

‘
open-mouthed
’: GBP, 2.4.45

‘
the most tiresome question
’: TNA PREM 3/434/2, pp. 4–5, quoted Rees,
World War II behind Closed Doors
, p. 309

‘
thought rather cynical
’, ‘
No, you keep it
’: Berezhkov,
At Stalin’s Side
, p. 304