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‘Upon capture…’, USAMHI, quoted in Carlo D’Este, Decision in Normandy, New York, 1983, p. 428

‘This corps could easily advance…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 508

p. 440 For the effectiveness of anti-tank guns in defence see David Rowland, The Stress of Battle, Norwich, 2006, pp. 106-41

26. THE HAMMER AND ANVIL

p. 441 ‘Very hot — not good…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T501

Montgomery and Berlin, Harry C. Butcher, Three Years with Eisenhower, London, 1946, p. 551

p. 442 Tractable bombing attack, Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 229

‘The attack ordered by me…’, Eberbach, FMS A-922

p. 443 ‘It is really a great plan…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940- 1945, New York, 1974, p. 510

‘Take Orleans at once’, Major General Gilbert Cook, commanding XII Corps, Third Army, NA II 07/427/24241

‘The number of cases…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 510

‘A few of the enlisted men…’, George Silverton, Chief of X Ray Department, 2nd Evacuation Hospital, MdC TE 710

6th Security Regiment captures American war correspondent, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

p. 444 ‘We’d have been happy…’, Gefreiter Spiekerkotter, 2nd Pionier Kompanie, 256th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/ 5526

‘a slimy paste’, Aitken Hughes diary, WLHUM RAMC 1771

‘more critical by the hour’, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87

‘catastrophic’, Kriegstagebuch Panzer Group West, Fifth Panzer Army, BA-MA MSg 2/4831

‘swine…’, Marshal of the RAF Lord Portal, OCMH-FPP

p. 445 ‘I cannot pretend…’, No. 742, Prime Minister to President, 4 August, TNA PREM 3/472

‘Ike said no…’, Butcher, p. 545

‘especially when the first paratroops…’ General Warlimont, ETHINT 1

p. 446 ‘One woman was raped…’, M.R.D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, p. 393 head of the Gestapo in Chateauroux killed, SHD-DAT 13 P 33

‘128 terrorists…’, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

‘reprisals cannot be harsh enough’, BA-MA M-854, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 463

p. 447 the twenty-six worst massacres, ibid., pp. 574-80

for a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of French civilian casualty figures see ibid., pp. 412-15

‘counter-scorching’, Foot, p. 391

p. 448 ‘military events having taken…’, Faugere, AN F/1cIII/1166

Laval and Petain, AN F/1cIII/1166

‘regions where hideous…’,AN AJ/41/56

‘In the face of these barbarous acts…’, TNA WO 171/337, quoted in Lieb, p. 396 p. 449 ‘I watched an open lorry…’, John Colville, The Fringes of Power, London, 1985, p. 475

‘their look, in the hands…’, Forrest C. Pogue, Pogue’s War, Lexington, Kentucky, 2001, p. 199

‘The French were rounding…’, Colonel McHugh, 318th Infantry, 80th Division, NA II 407/427/24242

‘an ugly carnival’, Alain Brossat, Les Tondues , Paris, 1992

for the departement of the Manche, see Michel Boivin, Les Victimes civiles de la Manche, Caen, 1994, p. 6

p. 450 ‘Military police were posted…’, Colville, p. 499

‘everything can be bought’, Madame Richer, MdC TE 223

‘My wife doesn’t understand me’, Pogue, p. 134

p. 451 ‘clearly considered us to be backward…’, P. Peschet, MdC TE 215

‘their neighbours as German sympathizers’, NA II 407/427/24170

camp at Sully, ADdC 8 W 1/1 422

p. 452 ‘supplying the enemy’, AdM 1380 W 236 and AdM 1380 W 254

‘It’s because I don’t wash…’, Claude Quetel, ‘Avoir quatre ans et demi, le 6 juin 1944, a Bernieres-sur-Mer’, Bulletin d’information de la Fondation canadienne de la Bataille de Normandie, March 1993

‘requisitions irregulieres’, AdM 158W 159- 202

‘pillaging shops…’, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167

p. 453 ‘Our soldiers have done some looting’, Myles Hildyard diary, 19 June

‘with occasionally a cynical touch…’, George Silverton, Chief of X Ray Department, 2nd Evacuation Hospital, MdC TE 710

‘Mon Repos’, R. Makin, IWM 88/34/1

15,000 troops working on Port de Caen, Major L. J. Massey, MdC TE 167

‘whose liberation was more rapid…’, Francois Bedarida (ed.), Normandie 44, du debarquement a la Liberation, Paris, 2004,p. 24

‘otherwise they must expect…’, Heeresgruppe B, 14 August, BA-MA RH 19 ix/87 p. 454 Kluge’s order to cross the Orne, BA-MA MSg 2/5117

panzers driving over bodies, Beck, 277th Artillerie Regiment, 277th Infanterie-Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242

resistance of Hitler Jugend in Falaise, Copp, Fields of Fire, pp. 234-5

Canadian casualties at end of Tractable, Terry Copp, Cinderella Army, Toronto, 2007, p. 7

Polish crossing of the Dives, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

p. 455 ‘for the first time…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 513

‘No, by God…’, Major General Kenner, Chief Medical Officer, SHAEF, OCMH-FPP

p. 456 ‘All effort was made…’, Combat Command B, 7th Armored Division, NA II 407/427/24096

p. 457 confusion with Gerow and Gaffey, NA II 407/427/24235

‘Change horses’, Blumenson (ed.), pp. 514-15

‘Ismay takes a sane…’, Duff Hart-Davis (ed.), King’s Counsellor, London, 2006, p. 279

‘Leclerc of the 2nd French Armored Division…’, Blumenson (ed.), p. 510

27. THE KILLING GROUND OF THE FALAISE POCKET

p. 459 ‘the 15th August was…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘Hitler suspected that…’, General Warlimont, ETHINT 5

p. 460 ‘The Fuhrer has ordered…’, Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm, BA-MA MSg 2/247

‘one of the harshest…’, Leutnant Dankwart Graf von Arnim, MdC TE 819

p. 461 ‘were a pack of cowards…’,Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, ETHINT 66