‘Collins and Bradley…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 479
the ‘Treuelied’, Jean-Claude Perrigault and Rolf Meister, Götz von Berlichingen, Bayeux, 2005, p. 77
‘Well, we don’t know…’, SS-Mann Johann H., 36 380 D =3.Kp./SS-Pi.Btl.17 17.SS-Pz.Gren.Div. 8 June, BfZ-SS
p. 164 ‘Turn round!’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 203
‘and push the enemy…’, Generalleutnant Richard Schimpf, 3rd Paratroop Division, FMS B-020
p. 165 ‘insufficient forces’, Generalmajor Max Pemsel commentary, FMS B-541
353rd Infanterie-Division, General Mahlmann, FMS A-983
hiding in barns and orchards, AdM 2 J 695
‘nocturnal game…’, Generalleutnant Kurt Badinski 276th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-526
SS Das Reich in France, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 361
p. 166 ‘the initiation of…’, IMT, Vol. XXXVII, quoted in Lieb, p. 364
For these and other killings, see Lieb, pp. 374-5 and AN AJ/41/56. According to one report, 108 were hanged in Tulle, AN AJ/41/56
Oradour, M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France, London, 1966, pp. 398-9
‘regions where a hideous…’, AN AJ/ 41/56
p. 167 ‘spray jobs’, Technical Sergeant Donald J. Walworth, 3rd Battalion, 26th Infantry, 1stDivision,NA II 407/427/24242
‘were in fact facing…’, Gordon A. Harrison, US Army in World War II, Washington, DC, 1951 p. 370
p. 168 ‘You people are always…’, Oberstleutnant Keil, FMS C-018
‘sly, underhand…’, Perrigault and Meister, p. 245
‘moderately high losses’, ibid., p. 247
p. 169 accusation against Heydte, FMS B-839; and Perrigault and Meister, p. 248
12. FAILURE AT CAEN
p. 170 ‘communications between division…’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
‘honeycombed with trenches, NA II 407/ 427/24200
p. 171 ‘under his command…’, TNA WO 208/4363
1st SS Panzer-Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, Taganrog, Sönke Neitzel (ed.), Tapping Hitler’s Generals, St Paul, Mn, 2007, p. 344, n. 93
p. 172 ‘It has taken…’, Generalmajor Wilhelm Richter, 716th Infanterie-Division, FMS B-621
‘Little fish!’, Shulman interview with Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger, August 1945, Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1988, p. 121
‘At a moment when…’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
p. 173 ‘Fright reports’, Generalmajor Fritz Krämer, I SS Panzer Corps, FMS C-024
p. 174 ‘Action rear’, etc., Alastair Bannerman, 2nd Battalion Royal Warwicks, SWWEC 2001-819
Gruchy, Raymond Pouchin, MdC TE 86
Hitler Jugend in Cambes, Lieutenant, Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 175 ‘We were the first troops…’ and ‘After a very short time…’, Stanley Christopherson diary
p. 176 ‘fighter-bomber racecourse’, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, Panzer Lehr Division, ETHINT 66
Panzer Lehr losses, see H. Ritgen, Die Geschichte der Panzer-Lehr Division im Westen, 1944-1945, Stuttgart, 1979, p. 100, quoted in Niklas Zetterling, Normandy 1944, Winnipeg, 2000, p. 386
p. 177 ‘How can I live…’, ‘Aristocrats’, Keith Douglas, The Complete Poems, London, 2000, p. 117
‘I like you, sir’, Stuart Hills, By Tank into Normandy, London, 2002, p. 54
p. 178 ‘missed the psychological moment…’, General Geyr von Schweppenburg, FMS B-466
‘Last time I was…’, Lieutenant Cyril Rand, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles, MdC TE 499
p. 179 ‘When I looked to the left…’, Unterscharführer Alois Morawetz, 3. Panzerkompanie, SS Panzer-Regiment 12, Hubert Meyer, The 12th SS: The History of the Hitler Youth Panzer Division, Vol. I, Mechanicsburg, Pa., p. 188
‘I could have cried…’, ibid., p.191
p. 180 ‘He had tried to make…’, ibid., p.197
killing of prisoners in Normandy, TNA TS 26/856
‘about thirty Canadian…’, Nelly Quidot, MdC TE 228
killings at Abbaye d’Ardennes, Sergeant Frank Geoffrey, Royal Winnipeg Rifles, NWWIIM-EC
p. 181 ‘dare-devil’, Peter Lieb, Konventioneller Krieg oder Weltanschauungskrieg?, Munich, 2007, p. 163
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 Krämer, 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, Abbé André 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