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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 Kramer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024

13. VILLERS-BOCAGE

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, Abbe Andre 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 Liberation 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 cure…’, Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle — Le Rebelle, Paris, 1984, p. 779

p. 199 ‘hated Laval, but not Petain’, 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…’, Andre Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)

Cafe owner, Dr Robert Chaperon, MdC TE 42

‘in the Middle Ages’, MdC TE 42 p. 202 Secours National, Celine 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 Untersturmfuhrer Herbert E., 2.Kp./Nachr.Abt.SS. Pz.Div. ‘Hohenstaufen’, 6 June and 10 June, 24 742C, BfZ-SS

14. THE AMERICANS ON THE COTENTIN PENINSULA

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,