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p. 104 ‘Comrades, an air-raid…’, Nekrassov, p. 82

p. 104 ‘not just industrial…’, Grigorev, conversation, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 105 ‘literally had to drag…’, Nefyodova, conversation, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 105 ‘Before filling in…’, Goncharov, conversation, 23 Nov. 1995

p. 106 1,600 sorties, 1,000 tons, Plocher, p. 231

p. 106 ‘No one bothered…’, Goncharov, conversation, 23 Nov. 1995

p. 106 ‘Around Gumrak…’, BA-MA, RH27-16/42

p. 107 ‘seemed to think…’, Albert, conversation, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 107 ‘Oh, they’re finished now!’ Grossman papers, RGALI 618/2/108

p. 107 ‘the soldiers…’, BA-MA, RH27-16/42

p. 107 ‘We had started…’, Freytag-Loringhoven, conversation, 23 Oct. 1995

p. 107, ‘The Volga is reached!’ BA-MA, RH20-6/216

p. 107 ‘a feeling of…’, Langsdorff, p. 194

p. 108 ‘We looked at the…’, Freytag-Loringhoven, conversation, 23 Oct. 1995

p. 108 ‘the girls refused…’, Grossman papers, RGALI 618/2/108

p. 108 ‘stayed at her post…’, Goncharov, conversation, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 108 ‘Right until the late…’, BA-MA, RH27-16/42

p. 108 ‘It is completely…’, BA-MA, RW4/V. 264

p. 109 ‘We shall never surrender…’, TsMVS

p. 109 ‘deserted his post’, RTsKhIDNI 17/43/1773

p. 110 ‘Yesterday we reached…’, Gefr. E. R. 16th Pz. Div., 25 Aug. 1942, BZG-S

p. 110 ‘mit Eleganz’, Gefr. B. G., 2 Sept. 1942, BZG-S

p. 111 ‘gunboats’, BA-MA, RH27-16/42

p. 111 ‘We know how…’, Podewils, p. 117

p. 112 ‘like a calm lake’, Podewils, p. 105

p. 112 ‘Soon we too will…’, Gefr. B. G., 24 Aug. 1942, BZG-S

p. 112 ‘The song will really…’, Uffz. W. W., 27 Aug. 1942, BZG-S

p. 112 ‘You can’t imagine…’, Sold. H. R., 389th I.D., 28 Aug. 1942, BZG-S

p. 113 ‘very nervous’, Richthofen diary, Paulus, p. 188

p. 113 ‘the closer the…’, Strecker, Haller, p. 89

p. 113 ‘We will not abandon…’, 26 Aug. 1942, TsMVS

p. 114 ‘Many men have…’, Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 29 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 308

p. 114 ‘Concentration of enemy…’, OStA-KA B/1540

p. 115 ‘led a battalion…’, Dobronin to Shcherbakov, 8 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 78

p. 115 ‘This silver streak…’, Podewils, p. 119

p. 115 ‘Gentlemen, flying for fun…’, Einsiedel, p. 12

p. 116 ‘This shitty Russia’, Uffz. H. T., 71st I.D., 30 Aug. 1942, BZG-S

p. 117 ‘worried and angry’, Glichov, conversation, 6 Nov. 1995

p. 117 ‘What’s the matter…’, Volkogonov, p. 461

p. 118 ‘Delay at this moment’, Erickson, The Road to Stalingrad,p. 384

p. 118 The Germans also suffered…, BA-MA, RH27-16/43

p. 118 ‘Hello, my dear ones!’ V. M. Kovalov, 2 Sept. 1942, AMPSB 258/4904

p. 118 ‘the Volga was the last line…’, Glichov, conversation, 6 Nov. 1995

p. 119 ‘but Stalingrad will…’, Gefr. B. G., 3 Sept. 1942, BZG-S

p. 119 ‘According to…’, Sold. W. W., 305th I.D., 2 Sept. 1942, BZG-S

p. 119 ‘The ring round…’, BA-MA, RH20-6/216

p. 119 ‘Here, everyone…’, letter, 23 Aug. 1942, quoted in Paulus, p. 169

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p. 121 ‘the fateful city’, letter, 3 Dec. 1942, Groscurth, p. 530

p. 123 ‘satisfying progress…’, Haider, 7 Sept. 1942, p. 518

p. 123 ‘That is a lie!’ quoted in Domarus, vol. ii, p. 1908

p. 123 ‘long stare…’, Warlimont, p. 269

p. 124 ‘a completely new…’, Below, p. 315

p. 124 ‘The tanks are no good…’, BA-MA, RH27-16/43

p. 124 ‘The Russians attacked…’, Freytag-Loringhoven, conversation,23 Oct. 1995

p. 124 ‘As far as the eye…’, Gefr. O. K., 13 Sept. 1942

p. 125 ‘What if your beloved…’, Stalinskoe znamia, 8 Sept. 1942

p. 125 ‘Do not count days…’, Zayas, p. 169

p. 125 ‘sad smell of…’, Simonov, Raznye dni voiny, vol. ii, pp. 175–6

p. 127 ‘Comrade Chuikov…’, Chuikov, p. 84

p. 128 ‘Time is blood’, Chuikov, p. 89

p. 128 ‘to get across the Volga…’, Chuikov, p. 93

p. 128 ‘experienced traitor…’, 8 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 77

p. 129 ‘every German must…’, Chuikov, p. 80

p. 129 ‘strong positions…’, BA-MA, RH20-6/216

p. 129 ‘then fourteen days…’, Haider, p. 521

p. 129 ‘A mass of Stukas…’, Gefr. H. S., 389th I.D., BZG-S

p. 131 ‘Yeremenko says…’, Zhukov, p. 143

p. 131 ‘Both divisions…’, BA-MA, RH20-6/216

p. 133 ‘Major Stalin’, S. D. Lugansky, ‘Malenkov’, in Bialer, p. 455

p. 134 ‘the kites perched…’, Grossman papers, RGALI 618/2/108

p. 135 ‘flowed from Rodimtsev…’, conversation, Kidyarov, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 135 ‘Since yesterday…’, anon., 29th I.D. (mot.), 15 Sept. 1942, BZG-S

p. 136 ‘he was afraid of…’, 8 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 77

p. 136 ‘Instead of taking…’, 8 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 77

p. 137 ‘did not agree…’, 8 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 78

p. 137 ‘These clouds of earth…’, Grossman, Life and Fate,p. 35

p. 138 ‘Stalingrad has been taken…’, TsAMO 3/11 556/10, quoted in Volkogonov, pp. 474–5

p. 138 ‘Whenever an Me-109…’, 4 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, p. 48

p. 138 ‘As soon as Stuka…’, Max Plakolb, OStA-KAB/1540; Kalb interrogation, TsAMO 48/453/13, p. 70

p. 139 ‘Attack target area…’, Herbert Pabst, letters, quoted in Bahr and Bahr, pp. 186–8

p. 139 ‘The soldiers’…’, Dr Gunther Diez, Schneider-Janessen, p. 130

p. 141 ‘Each Guards soldier…’, conversation, Kidyarov, 22 Nov. 1995

p. 142 ‘The air is filled…’, BA-MA, RH27-16/42

p. 142 ‘It’s not a human…’, Podewils, p. 115

p. 142 ‘Home is so far…’, Herbert Pabst, quoted in Bahr and Bahr, ? 184

p. 142 ‘Hello, my dear Palina!’, AMPSB 22789

p. 142 The Germans won’t…’, AMPSB 752-/5.481

p. 143 ‘left the line of defence…’, Dobronin to Stalingrad Front Military Council, 3 Oct. 1942, TsAMO 48/486/24, pp. 9, 30–32

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