All Hell Let Loose (116 page)

‘Their conduct was bestial’ BNA WO106/2550B

‘It shouldn’t have happened’ Smith p.497

‘Chin up, girls’ ibid. p.533

‘The fall of Singapore’ Bayly & Harper p.126

‘had been handed over’ ibid. p.147

‘The area presented’ Stephen Abbott
And All My War is Done
Pentland 1991 p.31

‘The heavens had indeed’ Bayly & Harper p.117

‘I saw them tramping’ Smith p.550

‘Groups of them were’ Harries p.264

‘We had cause’ John Kennedy
The Business of War
Hutchinson 1957 p.198

‘I moved to the Nipponese’ Edward Dunlop
The Diaries of ‘Weary’ Dunlop
Viking 1986 pp.12–13

2
THE ‘WHITE ROUTE’ FROM BURMA

‘In a little house’ Yvonne Vaz Ezdani ed.
Songs of the Survivors
Noronha Goa 2007

‘Out! Quick!’ Daw Sein
Les Dix milles vies d’une femme birmane
Claude Delachet Fuillon 1978 pp.152–5

‘I’m not dead!’ Edzani p.87

‘Life begins with’ Bayly & Harper p.161

‘All we saw were’ Julian Thompson
Forgotten Voices of Burma
Ebury 2009 p.21

‘among other subject’ ibid. p.164

‘We Europeans lived’ ibid. p.88

‘It is rather disheartening’ LHA Brooke-Popham Papers File V 7/18/2

‘[The Japanese] not only’ John Smyth
Before the Dawn
Cassell 1957 pp.139–40

‘a country which had lost’ Mi Mi Khaing
A Burmese Family
Longman 1946 p.130

‘It came to us’ Tatsuro p.120

‘Has Singapore fallen?’ ibid. p.142

‘We didn’t know what hit us’ Bayly & Harper p.175

‘I sent my runner’ Thompson
Burma
pp.11–12

‘We were arrogant’ ibid. p.41

‘The general atmosphere’ Bayly & Harper p.160

‘a Harley Street specialist’ ibid. p.163

‘The attitude of the army’ Thompson
Burma
p.34

‘We always felt’ Bayly & Harper p.339

‘How thrilling it was’ ibid. p.173

‘The clearing was littered’ Geoffrey Tyson
Forgotten Frontier
p.79

‘Her voice soared clear’ Ezdani p.80

‘The medical wards are’ Mrs G. Portal quoted Bayly & Harper p.189

‘It is the misfortune’ Jawaharlal Nehru
Selected Works of Nehru
Orient Longman 1980 Vol. XII p.269

Chapter 10 – Swings of Fortune

1
BATAAN

‘We cannot win’ James Reston
Prelude to Victory
NY 1942 p.x

‘The Army … are aiming at’ Slessor Papers File XIIc

‘After Pearl Harbor’ USMHI Forrest Pogue
The Supreme Command
files

‘It will be a long, hard war’ Christopher Thorne
The Issue of War
Oxford 1985 p.25

‘People are crazy’ Blum p.97

‘The Good War myth’ Schlesinger pp.283–4

‘The men have no great’ Pogue p.335

‘A behaviourist noted’ Perrett p.213

‘Suddenly we realized’ Fred Mears
Carrier Combat
Doubleday 1944 p.3

‘It was amazing how long’ Kiernan p.3

‘Apparently it takes’ Ernie Pyle
Here is Your War
Pocket NY 1945 p.555

‘They came up the boulevards’ Mydans p.147

‘I guess we are’ Elizabeth Norman
Band of Angels
Random House 1999 p.66

‘Scores of Japs ripped’ William E. Dyess
The Dyess Story
Putnam New York 1944 p.43

‘the most deplorable’ John Glusman
Conduct Under Fire
Viking 2007 p.136

‘They were usually’ Monahan & Neidel-Greenlee p.41

‘The wounded often’ ibid. p.50

‘The argument raged’ Alfred Weinstein
Barbed Wire Surgeon
Macmillan 1947 p.34

‘Now we knew’ Donald Knox
Death March
Harcourt Brace 1981 p.121

‘If you fell’ ibid. p.136

‘just so disappointed’ Glusman p.197

‘Poor Wainwright!’
The Eisenhower Diaries
Norton 1981 p.54

‘The news commentators’ Blum p.54

2
THE CORAL SEA AND MIDWAY

‘Okay, so long’ Captain Walter Karig & Commander Eric Purdon
Battle Report: Pacific War Middle Phase
Rinehart 1946 p.19

‘It was pretty discouraging’ E.T. Wooldridge ed.
Carrier Warfare in the Pacific
Smithsonian 1993 p.41

‘They were curious’ ibid. p.42

‘fires had gotten’ ibid. p.45

‘Many of the sailors’ Kiernan p.13

‘We had a small group’ Wooldridge p.281

‘I just felt at home’ ibid. p.285

‘a sailor on
Hornet
’ ibid. p.68

‘There was oil very’ ibid. p.168

‘There is something in’ Herman Melville
Israel Potter
1854

‘After a battle is over’ Walter Lord
Incredible Victory
New York 1967 p.87

‘The fate of the United States’ John Costello
The Pacific War
Collins 1981 p.285

‘All of us knew’ The Battle of Midway Round Table http.//www.midway12.org

‘When approximately one mile’ US Naval Historical Center Esders After-Action report

‘I was not aware’ Kiernan p.45

‘I was mad because’ Wooldridge pp.56–7

‘I saw this glint’ ibid. p.58

‘As I looked back’ Tom Cheek
A Ring of Coral
Battle of Midway Roundtable http//home.comcast.net/r2russ/midway.ringcoral.htm

‘I was horrified’ Mitsuo Fuchida & Masatake Okimuya
Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan
Annapolis 1955 p.177

3
GUADALCANAL AND NEW GUINEA

‘In the dirty dawn’ Robert Leckie
Helmet for my Pillow
Ebury 2010 p.57

‘Wizard!!!’ Costello p.177

‘The enemy ships had’ Bruce Loxton & Chris Coulthard-Clark
The Shame of Savo
Allen & Unwin 1994 pp.143–7

‘The navy was still’ ibid. p.265

‘Whether these were’ Donald Miller
D-Days in the Pacific
Simon & Schuster 2005 p.68

‘At daybreak a couple’ ibid. p.72

‘Here was cacophony’ Leckie p.78

‘Morale was very bad’ Miller pp.67–8

‘Everything was so’ James Jones
The Thin Red Line
Collins 1963 p.43

‘[It] was the most tremendous’ Ronald Spector
Eagle Against the Sun
Viking 1985 pp.205–6

‘I have seen men’ George Johnston
The Toughest Fighting in the World
Duell, Sloan & Pearce New York 1943 p.5

‘What a hell of a load’ ibid. p.8

‘this is not murder’ ibid. p.40

‘I do not believe’ ibid. p.198

‘Confusion was the keynote’ ibid. p.45

‘Our troops are fighting’ ibid. pp.167–8

‘It was a sly and’ Robert Eichelberger
Our Jungle Road to Tokyo
Nashville Battery Classics 1989 pp.21–3

Chapter 11 – The British at Sea

1
THE ATLANTIC

‘The bombers’ Julian Thompson
The War at Sea
Sidgwick & Jackson 1996 p.113

‘I couldn’t see anything’ ibid. p.149

‘sheer unmitigated hell’ J.B. Lamb
The Corvette Navy: True Stories from Canada’s Atlantic War
Macmillan Toronto 1979 p.73

‘It was a continual’ AI Harris 11.10.76,
Bomber Command
files

‘An average of’ Stephen Howarth & David Law eds
The Battle of the Atlantic 1939–45
Greenhill 1994 Jurgen Rohwer p.411

‘One minute we had’ ibid. p.51

‘trusting to make’ Richard Woodman
The Real Cruel Sea
Murray 2004 p.166

‘Living and working’ Howarth & Law p.215

‘race and other population’ Potsdam Vol. IX/I p.612

‘There will be no’ Erich Topp quoted Howarth & Law p.217

‘amounted almost to’ Corelli Barnett
Engage the Enemy More Closely
Hodder & Stoughton 1991 p.486

‘This low state of efficiency’ quoted Howarth & Law p.199

‘These problems often’ ibid. p.522

2
ARCTIC CONVOYS

‘While one could keep’ Thompson
War at Sea
p.160

‘I waited for the swell’ Richard Woodman
Arctic Convoys
John Murray 2001 p.323

‘We were kept in’ ibid. p.107

‘The mood is bitter’ ibid. p.220

‘rather sad and twitchy’ ibid. p.161

‘The arrival in Kola’ Thompson
War at Sea
p.161

‘God knows we paid’ Woodman
Arctic
p.445

3
THE ORDEAL OF
PEDESTAL

‘a fantastically wonderful’ Richard Woodman
Malta
p.379

‘I felt indeed that’ Thompson
War at Sea
p.192

‘She presented a’ ibid. p.192

‘Most of us felt’ ibid. p.195

‘I could never have’ Woodman
Malta
p.403

Chapter 12 – The Furnace: Russia in 1942

‘We arrived at 8 p.m.’ Brontman p.132

‘We’re having a little’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945
19.5.42

‘Eastern man is very’ Gunther Blumentritt in
The Fatal Decisions
Michael Joseph 1952 pp.37–8

‘One explosion next’ Potsdam Vol. VI p.938

‘We wept as we retreated’ Merridale p.133

‘Women also policed’ Brontman p.22 18.6.42

‘psychologically prepared for’ ibid. p.31 4.4.42

‘The night was terribly dark’ Front Diary of N.F. Belov 1941–44 in
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha 1941–1945
23.4.42

‘I have the inescapable’ BNA WO208/1777

‘There was, I said’ Anders p.124

‘we Poles were now’ ibid. p114

‘The civilians are howling’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha
pp.271–2 23.10.42

‘These fools have allowed’ Grossman p.127

‘We have to learn’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha
p.273

‘Results deplorable’ Belov diary 9.9.42

‘We ploughed over the’ Potsdam Vol. VI p.1097

‘the streets of the city’ Merridale p.150

‘The officers made them’ Vladimir Pershanin
Shtrafniki, razvedchiki, pekhota
[Punishment Companies, Reconnaissance, Infantry] Moscow 2010 p.177

‘The wounded, more than’ ibid. p.185

‘Approaching this place’ Grossman p.151

‘I had been imagining’ ibid. p.183

‘I miss you very much’ ibid. p.152

‘There’s firing and thunder’ ibid. p.170

‘seven “cowards” and one’ Bellamy p.520

‘Courage is infectious here’ Grossman p.174

‘Hello, my dear Marusya!’
Pis’ma s ognennogo rubezha
p.273

‘In connection with the’ Bellamy p.380

‘During the night’ Nikulin memoir

‘It shows in the expression’ Jones
Seige
p.269

‘This happiness’ ibid. p.276

‘A thought is forming’ ibid. p.279

‘They said that the’ Merridale p.165

‘Just as I lay down’ Belov diary 8.10.42

‘The whole place trembled’ Metelmann p.120

‘This is the most beautiful’ Knoke p.80

‘Our thoughts and conversations’ Poppel p.99

‘The implacable struggle’ Potsdam Vol. XI/I p.583

‘Vehicles complete with’ Eugenio Corti
Few Returned: 28 days on the Russian Front, Winter 1942–43
University of Missouri Press 1997 p.10

‘But how can you’ ibid. p.26

‘Countless instances of’ ibid. pp.30–1

‘the wounded were lying’ ibid. p.61

‘I was greeted by’ ibid. p.65

‘During halts on those’ ibid. p.194

‘We watched those aircraft’ ibid. p.76

‘Back in the distant
patria
’ ibid. p.78

‘It was extremely painful’ ibid. p.78

‘I … asked myself’ ibid. p.138

‘in the palm of his’ ibid. p.218

‘At the end of 1942’ Mack Smith p.293

‘I’m in an exceptional’ Merridale p.162

‘There’s no modesty’ Grossman p.225

‘The killing of thousands’ Koa Wing p.152

‘The day of battle’ Belov diary 13.2.43

‘The man is not to my liking’ Halder diaries p.387

‘Our army suddenly’ G.A. Kumanyov
Close to Stalin
[
Ryadom so Stalinym
] Moscow, 1999 p.38

Chapter 13 – Living with War

1
WARRIORS

‘I suppose our position’ Antony Hichens
Gunboat Command
Pen & Sword 2007 p.96

‘One of the fascinations’ USMHI Pogue
The Supreme Command
files Morgan interview

‘In the early war years’ Max Hastings
Armageddon
files

‘Dearest Mum’ Robert Kershaw p.203

‘I am absolutely fed up’ Thompson
The War at Sea
p.111

‘It must take about seven’ Peter White
With the Jocks
Sutton 2001 p.37