‘whose liberation was more rapid…’, François Bédarida (ed.), Normandie 44, du débarquement à la Libération, 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 Führer 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
Kluge’s letter to Hitler, quoted in Milton Shulman, Defeat in the West, London, 1986, pp. 174-7
p. 464 ‘able to drive by car…’, Generalmajor Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, ETHINT 59
shape of Falaise pocket, General Mahlmann, 353rd Infantry Division, FMS A-984
II Panzer Corps in Forêt de Gouffern, Eberbach, FMS A-922
‘In other words…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
panzer soldier playing Viennese waltzes, Marcel Labussière, MdC TE 471
‘We have had a warm welcome…’, Captain S. Beck, 18 August, MdC TE 570
‘While I was talking to the Brigadier…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 19 August, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC T 501
p. 465 1st Polish Armoured Division reorganizes, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
Model’s conference on 18 August, Eberbach, FMS A-922, and Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231 p. 466 ‘The black mushrooms…’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
‘We rippled the rockets…’, Michael Veitch, Tom Hall, Sydney, 2006, p. 113
‘On the road great heaps…’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, FMS A-903
Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
Allied air claims on 18 August, Leigh-Mallory, TNA CAB 106/980
Operational Research Section, Report No. 15, ‘Enemy Casualties in Vehicles and Equipment in the Retreat from Normandy to the Seine’, AHB
p. 467 ‘Take cover, boys, they may be ours!’ Rev. A. R. C. Leaney, IWM PP/MCR/206
‘some British armored vehicles…’, NA II 407/427/24143
p. 468 ‘They were excellent fighters…’, Lieutenant George W. Godfrey, 358th Infantry, 90th Division, NA II 407/427/ 24240
‘tidying up official correspondence’, quoted in Terry Copp, Fields of Fire, Toronto, 2003, p. 243
‘The roads were blocked…’, Hans Höller, 21st Panzer-Division, MdeC TE 98
‘In their faces one could read…’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
p. 469 ‘Fertigmachen zum Abmarsch’, Eberhard Beck, 277th Artillerie-Regiment, 277th Infantry Division, BA-MA MSg 2/3242
escape of General Meindl and paratroops, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 470 ‘clear and serene’, Generalmajor Gerhard Müller, 116th Panzer-Division, FMS B-162
p. 471 ‘People, horses, vehicles…’, General der Panzertruppen Freiherr von Lüttwitz, 2nd Panzer-Division, FMS A-903
‘This was the signal….’, Generalmajor Freiherr Rudolf von Gersdorff, FMS A-919
‘It was a gunner’s dream…’, NA II 407/ 427/24242
p. 472 ‘The Polish soldier fights…’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
‘luck gave the 10th Cavalry Brigade…’, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
capture of General Elfeldt, Captain A. Potozynski, 10th Polish Mounted Rifles, SWWEC LEEWW 2000.327
Simonds and Kitching, Copp, pp. 249-50 p. 473 Hauptmann Werner, III Battalion, Regiment Der Führer, 2nd SS Panzer-Division Das Reich, MdC TE 158
SS officer saved by Canadian officer, Herbert Ronstedt, 9th SS Panzer-Division Hohenstaufen, BA-MA MSg 2/3225
Polish tanks near northern Hill 262, Hubert Meyer, BA-MA MSg 2/4832
‘Oh it’s the old man’, General Eugen Meindl, II Parachute Corps, FMS A-923
p. 475 ‘German attempts, more or less…’, SHD-DAT 11 P 221
‘the sixty-sixth and last day…’, MdC TE 149
Polish losses in Normandy, SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1
p. 476 over 2,000 men per division had escaped, Generalmajor Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, written answers submitted October 1945, NA II 407/427/24231
‘[The] Yanks say…’, diary of Major Julius Neave, 13th/18th Hussars, SWWEC 501 T
‘A boy of about ten years…’, 2nd Lieutenant Roy J. Bolen, 38 Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, NA II 407/427/24240
‘The roads were choked with wreckage…’, Desmond Scott, Typhoon Pilot, London, 1982, p. 129
‘The horses seemed almost more pitiful’, Kingsley Amis, Memoirs, London, 1991, p. 221
p. 477 the cossack squadron, Barnett Hoffner, 6th Engineer Special Brigade, NWWIIM-EC
German field hospital in Forêt de Gouffern, NA II 407/427/24235
‘On the collapse of the Falaise pocket…’, Lieutenant Colonel John N. Snyder, MdC TE 648
p. 478 ‘Their blankets have been…’,Aitken Hughes diary, WLHUM RAMC 1771
‘The air became unbreathable’, Jean Sorel, MdC TE 504 ‘The victory has been definite…’, LHCMA De Guingand 3/1-27
Eberbach’s estimate of those who escaped, Eberbach, FMS A-922
Gersdorff’s estimate, Generalmajor Rudolf-Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff, Chief of Staff Seventh Army, ETHINT 59
‘One of Monty’s great errors…’, Air Chief Marshal Tedder, OCMH-FPP
‘Monty is supposed to have done a great job…’, Air Chief Marshal Coningham, OCMH-FPP
‘too tidy’, ‘the high cock on the dungheap’ and ‘Bradley was indignant…’, Brigadier E. T. Williams, G-2, 21st Army Group, OCMH-FPP
28. THE PARIS UPRISING AND THE RACE FOR THE SEINE
p. 480 ‘had to ask him categorically…’, Martin Blumenson (ed.), The Patton Papers, 1940-1945, New York, 1974, p. 516
‘This Army covers so much…’, ibid., p. 517
p. 481 ‘pissed in the river that morning’, ibid., pp. 521-2
‘Go where you damn well…’,Major General Gilbert Cook, commanding XII Corps, Third Army, NA II 407/427/24241
De Gaulle’sunannounced journey, Wilson to SHAEF, 16 August, TNA ADM 1/ 16018
De Gaulle and the Flying Fortress, John Julius Norwich (ed.), The Duff Cooper Diaries, London, 2005, p. 318 (17 August)