p. 28 ‘One trooper asked…’, Tomaso William Porcella, 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘We ask you…’, Prime Minister to Stalin, 14 April, TNA PREM 3/472
p. 29 ‘One should not forget…’, Stalin to Prime Minister, TNA PREM 3/333/5
‘We have heard from other sources…’, Gusev diary, AVPRF 59a/7/p13/6, pp. 357-8
p. 30 Vishinsky, AVPRF 06/6/p2/d22, p. 147
‘I have just returned…’, Prime Minister to Stalin, 5 June, TNA PREM 3/346
3. WATCH ON THE CHANNEL
p. 31 ‘They are supposed…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
p. 32 Christmas boxes for the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Traudl Junge, Until the Final Hour, London, 2002, p. 79
‘just a bit of cheap bluff’, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
Rommel also wanting to abandon Italy, Generalleutnant Speidel, Chief of Staff Army Group B, FMS B-718-720
p. 33 ‘not favourably received’, Shulman interview with Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, October 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1986, p. 107
‘We considered the repulse…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘The face of the war…’, Leutnant Kurt Flume diary, 1 June 1944, BfZ-SS
p. 35 ‘When the Government…’, Hans Speidel, We Defended Normandy, London, 1951, p. 88
p. 36 ‘If he does not do…’, IfZ, NOKW- 546, quoted in Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 121
panzer army near Paris, Generaloberst Heinz Guderian, ETHINT 38
Rommel and Allied air supremacy, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
identification of likely landing sites, General der Infanterie Blumentritt, debriefing 6 August 1945, NA II 407/427/ 24231
p. 37 dummy minefields, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
‘ear and stomach battalions’, Lieb, p. 106
‘it is really sad…’, Heinrich Böll, Briefe aus dem Krieg 1939-1945, Vol. II, Cologne, 2001, p. 918
‘No good replacements…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
p. 38 ‘apprehensive impression…’, BA-MA RH 19 iv/129, 28.12.1943, quoted in Lieb, p. 123
‘Plutokratenstaaten Amerika und England’, IfZ, MA-1024, quoted in Lieb, p. 120
‘very different…’, Fernand Louvoy, MdC TE 38
p. 39 ‘You will be liberated…’, Madame Richer, Bayeux, MdC TE 223
‘With this division…’, General-leutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘could hardly understand…’, Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, FMS B-441
p. 40 ‘He was of Spartan-like…’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
‘a conqueror’s paradise’, interview with General der Infanterie Blumentritt, February 1946, Shulman, p. 60
‘The enemy will certainly…’, Truppeningenieur, Stab/Pz.Pi.Btl.86, 9.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
p. 41 ‘They had done nothing…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘King’s Own German Grenadiers’, Shulman interview with Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt, October 1945, Shulman, p. 110
‘the Canada Division’, Speidel, p. 98
Bayeux Wehrmacht facilities, Franz Gockel, MdC TE 500 p. 42 ‘I have here…’, undated letter from Hauptfeldwebel Helmut Lichtenfels, Folder Newbold, Stefan, DDEL
‘I will behave…’, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
‘Don’t be too concerned…’, Unteroffizier Leopold L., 5.Kp./Pz.Rgt.3, 2.Pz.Div., BfZ-SS
weather conditions, Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Admiral bei der Heeresgruppe B, FMS A-982; and Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
p. 43 ‘Well, another false…’, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., 2005, p. 87
‘Couriers and individual soldiers…’, Generalleutnant Mahlmann, 353rd Infantry-Division, FMS A-983; and Oberst Cordes, Alfred Weißkopf, AdM 2 J 695
‘made statements…’, Oberstleutnant Fritz Ziegelmann, 352nd Infantry Division, FMS B-021
Alert Stage II, Generalleutnant Bodo Zimmermann, OB West, FMS B-308; and Admiral Friedrich Ruge, FMS B-282
4. SEALING OFF THE INVASION AREA
p. 45 SOE estimates of the Resistance, William Mackenzie, The Secret History of SOE, London, 2000, p. 602
p. 46 ‘Plan Vert’ etc., SHD-DAT 13 P 33
p. 47 Resistance in the Orne,ADdC9W4/2
Resistance information gathering, André Heintz diary, MdC TE 32 (1-4)
‘nothing more than…’, First US Army headquarters, 10 March, NA II 407/427/ 24368/595
p. 48 SAS and Jedburghs, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, pp. 400-407
‘We will undergo…’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
‘minimum diversions’, letter of 24 March from Air Marshal Arthur Harris to Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Chief of the Air Staff, HP, Folder H83
p. 49 Harris and Spaatz, Tami Davis Biddle, ‘Bombing by the Square Yard: Sir Arthur Harris at War, 1942-1945’, International History Review, XXI, 3, September 1999, pp. 569-852
‘should be the main target’, TNA PREM 3/4727
‘However regrettable…’, TNA PREM 3/4727
‘The RAF was a house divided’, Colonel C. H. Bonesteel III, G-3 Plans, 12th Army Group, OCMH-FPP
15,000 French killed and 19,000 injured, AN AJ 41/56
‘You must get control…’, Wing Commander Scarman, Tedder’s aide, OCMH-FPP
Churchill’s inability to see, Marshal of the RAF Viscount Portal, OCMH-FPP
p. 50 ‘God, no!’, Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb, Chief of Staff (Air) to Eisenhower, OCMH-FPP
‘insolent little sphinx…’, anonymous, MdC TE 83
signals to the Resistance in Normandy, SHD-DAT 13 P 33
5. THE AIRBORNE ASSAULT
p. 51 ‘This is it’, David Howarth, Dawn of D-Day, London, 1959, p. 13
p. 53 ‘Well, so far…’, Garry Johnson and Christopher Dunphie, Brightly Shone the Dawn, London, 1980, p. 36
‘Ham’ and ‘Jam’, Private Tappenden, NWWIIM-EC
p. 54 Generalleutnant Joseph Reichert, 711th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-403
p. 55 execution of paratroopers, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg? , Munich, 2007, p. 173
‘Gentlemen, in spite of…’, Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 42
p. 57 Saint-Pair, Neville Smith, 9th Battalion Parachute Regiment, MdC TE 134 192 of Otway’s men, Howarth, p. 61 ‘Shall we take…’, ibid., p. 56
p. 58 Brigadier Hill’s account, Independent on Sunday, 6 June 2004
‘the means of mortal sin’, Mark Zuehlke, Juno Beach, Vancouver, 2005, p. 129
p. 59 ‘The landing went…’, NA II 407/ 427/24170
p. 60 ‘grossly overloaded…’, Legrand Johnson, 101st Airborne Division, NWWIIM-EC
‘by this time…’, Lieutenant John R. Blackburn, Sky Control, USS Quincy, NWWIIM-EC
p. 61 ‘cocky, unruly characters…’, Roger L. Airgood, C-47 pilot, NWWIIM-EC
‘two islands named…’, Richard H. Denison, 437th Troop Carrier Group, NWWIIM-EC
p. 62 evasive action against orders, NA II 407/427/24137