The Second World War (154 page)

Central Committee Plenum, September–October 1938
: see Chang and Halliday,
Mao
, pp. 260–4

‘
They roped them together
’: Smedley,
China Fights Back
, p. 156

‘
We seized the village
’: diary taken by New Fourth Army, quoted Smedley,
Battle Hymn of China
, pp. 185–6

Nationalist and Communist clashes in 1939
: Garver,
Chinese–Soviet Relations
, pp. 81–2

‘
the criminal traitor
’: van de Ven,
War and Nationalism in China
, p. 237

5: Norway and Denmark

The munitions crisis
: see Tooze,
The Wages of Destruction
, pp. 328–57

‘
without regard to the future
’: Göring to Generalmajor Thomas, 30.1.40, quoted
ibid.
, p. 357

Luftwaffe sinking two German destroyers
:
GSWW
, vol. ii, pp. 170–1

‘
peaceful occupation
’:
ibid.
, p. 212

here
Hitler and Manstein: see Karl-Heinz Frieser,
The Blitzkrieg Legend: The 1940 Campaign in the West
, Annapolis, Md, pp. 79–81

‘
the nerveless philosopher
’: Horne,
To Lose a Battle
, p. 155

‘
greatest victory
’:
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 280

6: Onslaught in the West

Belgian soldiers planting pansies
: Cox,
Countdown to War
, pp. 194–5

Paris in early May
: see Horne,
To Lose a Battle
, pp. 171–2

‘
The battle beginning
’: Nicolaus von Below,
Als Hitlers Adjutant, 1937–1945
, Mainz, 1980, p. 228

Deuxième Bureau and ‘principal axis
’: Horne,
To Lose a Battle
, p. 169

Huntziger
: see
ibid.
, p. 165; and for Corap, see Julian Jackson,
The Fall of France: The Nazi Invasion of 1940
, Oxford, 2003, p. 35

Germans breaking French codes
: Frieser,
The Blitzkrieg Legend
, p. 87

‘
the French insouciance
’: Zamoyski,
The Forgotten Few
, p. 51

Aircraft destroyed
: James Holland,
The Battle of Britain
, London, 2010, pp. 67–8

‘
permit to enter Belgium
’: Robin McNish,
Iron Division
:
The History of the 3rd Division
, London, 2000, p. 77

Delayed start of French formations
:
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 283

‘
The Belgians stood cheering
’: Cox,
Countdown to War
, p. 203

‘
They walked, they rode
’:
ibid.
, p. 213

‘
Despair in Berlin
’: quoted Horne,
To Lose a Battle
, p. 209

‘
Hardly had the first boats
’: Hans von Luck,
Panzer Commander
, London, 1989, p. 38

‘
The atmosphere was that of a family
’: André Beaufre,
The Fall of France
, London, 1967, p. 183

‘
My Führer, I congratulate you
’: quoted Lev Kopelev,
Ease my Sorrows
, New York, 1983, pp. 198–9

‘
the ruins of
’: Alexander Stahlberg,
Bounden Duty
, London, 1990, p. 132

‘Marching, marching
’: Riedel, 20.5.40, BfZ-SS

here
German shortage of munitions and need for more time: Frieser,
The Blitzkrieg Legend
, pp. 21–3

‘
little hysterical
’: quoted Horne,
To Lose a Battle
, p. 331

‘
The road to Paris is open
’: Roland de Margerie,
Journal, 1939–1940
, Paris, 2010, pp. 180–1

‘
As you are no doubt aware
’: TNA PREM 3/468/201

‘
If members of the present
’:
ibid.

‘
The wind in eddies
’: Margerie,
Journal
, p. 181

‘
Utter dejection
’: Winston S. Churchill,
The Second World War
, 6 vols, London, 1948–53, vol. ii:
Their Finest Hour
, p. 42

‘
avec stupeur
’:
ibid.
, p. 192

‘
They are the most pathetic sight
’: Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke,
War Diaries, 1939–1945
, London, 2001, p. 67

7: The Fall of France

Kleist and Guderian at Saint-Quentin
:
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 287

‘
Colonel Motors
’: Margerie,
Journal
, p. 12

‘
Go on, de Gaulle
!’: Charles de Gaulle,
Mémoires de guerre
, 3 vols, Paris, 1954– 9, vol. i:
L’Appel, 1940–1942
, p. 30

André Maurois
: Margerie,
Journal
, p. 201

‘
I think I see my way through
’: quoted Martin Gilbert,
Finest Hour: Winston S. Churchill, 1940–41
, London, 1983, p. 358

Cripps in Moscow
: see Gabriel Gorodetsky,
Grand Delusion: Stalin and the German Invasion of Russia
, New Haven and London, 1999, pp. 19–22

For the Arras counter-attack, see Hugh Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
Fight to the Last Man
, London, 2007, pp. 142–55

‘
The face of war is dreadful
’: Sold. Hans B., 7.kl.Kw.Kol.f.Betr.St./Inf.Div. Kol.269, BfZ-SS

‘
By the roads, shattered
’: Gefr. Ludwig D., Rgts.Stab/Art.Rgt.69, Tuesday, 21.5.40, BfZ-SS

‘
There are many, many
’: Gefr. Konrad F., 5.Kp./Inf.Rgt.43, 1.Inf.Div., Wednesday, 22.5.40, BfZ-SS

Massacres of colonial troops
: Christophe Dutrône,
Ils se sont battus: mai–juin 1940
, Paris, 2010, p. 150

‘
for [the] sake of Allied solidarity
’: TNA WO 106/1693 and 1750, quoted Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, p. 228

‘
only a miracle can save France
’: Paul Addison and Jeremy Crang (eds),
Listening to Britain
, London, 2010, 22.5.40, p. 19

‘
The whiter the collar, the less the assurance
’:
ibid.
, p. 39

‘
evidence before us
’:
ibid.
, p. 31

‘
Nothing but a miracle
’: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 67

Panzer Corps Kleist losses
: BA-MA, W 6965a and Wi/1F5.366, quoted
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 290

here
Lack of German motor transport: Frieser,
The Blitzkrieg Legend
, p. 29

‘
predominant consideration
’: TNA WO 106/1750, quoted Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, p. 250

‘criminal lack of prudence
’: J. Paul-Boncour,
Entre deux guerres
, vol. iii, Paris, 1946, quoted Quétel,
L’Impardonnable Défaite
, p. 303

‘
This time I’ll declare war
’: quoted
GSWW
, vol. iii, p. 62

here
Bismarck’s comment on Italy: quoted John Lukacs,
Five Days in London: May 1940
, New Haven, 1999

‘
thunderclaps mingled
’: Riedel, 26.5.40, BfZ-SS

‘
British Strategy in a Certain Eventuality
’: TNA CAB 66–7

‘
in order to reduce proportionately
’: Margerie,
Journal
, p. 239

‘
We must not get entangled
’: TNA CAB 65/13

‘
fall back upon the coast
’: TNA WO 106/1750

1st Armoured Division
: see Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, pp. 272–3

‘
Even if we were beaten
’: TNA CAB 65/13/161, quoted Gilbert,
Finest Hour
, p. 412

‘
Finally, we have a scapegoat
!’: Leca quoted Margerie,
Journal
, p. 253

‘
We should find that all
’: TNA CAB 65/13

‘
slave state
’:
ibid.

‘
like a flock of huge infernal seagulls
’: Lieutenant P. D. Elliman, 1st HAA Regiment, quoted Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, p. 387

here
British and French tensions at Dunkirk: see
ibid.
, pp. 404–11

Allied troops taken off from Dunkirk port and beaches
:
GSWW
, vol. ii, pp. 293 and 295; Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, pp. 540–1, 628–9

‘
the Sikorski tourists
’: SHD-DAT 1 K 543 1

‘
almost too good’, and rumours
: Addison and Crang,
Listening to Britain
, pp. 71, 53

French and Italian losses in the Alps
:
GSWW
, vol. iii, p. 247

‘
puffy with fatigue
’: Cox,
Countdown to War
, p. 236

‘
poor relations at a funeral reception
’: Edward Spears,
Assignment to Catastrophe
, vol. ii:
The Fall of France
, London, 1954, p. 138

‘
That would be the destruction of the country
!’: quoted Quétel,
L’Impardonnable Défaite
, p. 330

‘
who have refused
’: quoted Paul Baudouin,
Private Diaries: March 1940– January 1941
, London, 1948, in Jackson,
The Fall of France
, 2003, p. 135

‘
This country had been rotted
’: Spears,
Assignment to Catastrophe
, vol. ii, p. 171

Surrender of Paris
: Charles Glass,
Americans in Paris: Life and Death under Nazi Occupation, 1940–1944
, London, 2009, pp. 11–22

‘
I will remain
’: Philippe Pétain,
Actes et écrits
, Paris, 1974, p. 365

Weygand’s regret
: Alanbrooke,
War Diaries
, p. 80

‘
it was impossible
’:
ibid.
, p. 81

‘
We were the first to enter
’: Sold. Paul Lehmann, Inf.Div.62, 28.6.40, BfZ-SS

Evacuation and sinking of
Lancastria
Sebag-Montefiore,
Dunkirk
, pp. 486–95

8: Operation Sealion and the Battle of Britain

‘
The disgrace is now
’:
TBJG
, part I, vol. viii, p. 186

‘
for continuing the war against Britain
’: BA-MA RM 7/255, quoted
GSWW
, vol. iii, p. 131

‘
If Great Britain is not forced
’: quoted Quétel,
L’Impardonnable Défaite
, p. 384

‘
most glorious victory of all time
’; Domarus, vol. ii, p. 1533, quoted Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
, p. 299

‘
You are charged with one
’: quoted Colin Smith,
England’s Last War against France
, London, 2009, p. 62

‘
the orders of His Majesty’s Government
’: TNA ADM 399/192 p.125

‘
tantamount to a declaration of war
’: TNA ADM 199/391

here
Hitler’s return to Berlin: Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
, pp. 300–1; and Roger Moorhouse,
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital, 1939– 1945
, London, 2010, pp. 61–3

‘
cheering thousands who shouted
’:
New York Times
, 7 July 1940

‘
Studie Nordwest
’: finalized 13.12.40, BA-MA RM 7/894, quoted
GSWW
, vol. ix/1, p. 525, n. 11

‘
Special Search List’, or ‘Sonderfahndungsliste
’: Walter Schellenberg,
Invasion 1940: The Nazi Invasion Plan for Britain
, London, 2000

‘
appeal to reason
’: Domarus, vol. ii, p. 1558

‘
Now there’s a lot
’: Sold. Paul Lehmann, Inf.Div.62, 28.6.40, BfZ-SS

Dowding
: quoted Max Hastings,
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45
, London, 2009, p. 67

here
For Polish airmen in Britain, see Zamoyski,
The Forgotten Few

‘
With Russia smashed
’: quoted Halder,
Kriegstagebuch
, vol. ii :
Von der geplanten Landung in England bis zum Beginn des Ostfeldzuges
, p. 49

‘
the first soldier of the Reich
’: BA-MA RH 19I/50, quoted
GSWW
, vol. ix/1, p. 529

‘
child’s play
’: Albert Speer,
Erinnerungen
, Frankfurt am Main, 1969, p. 188, quoted Kershaw,
Hitler, 1936–1945: Nemesis
, p. 305

‘
its ground-support organization
’: BA–MA RL 2/v. 3021, quoted
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 378

‘
dear fighter boys
’: Patrick Bishop,
Fighter Boys
, London, 2003, p. 239

here
Fighter squadron routine:
ibid.
; Holland,
The Battle of Britain
; Larry Forrester,
Fly for your Life
, London, 1956

‘
People with pitchforks
’: quoted Zamoyski,
The Forgotten Few
, p. 84

‘
a savage, primitive exaltation
’: quoted Bishop,
Fighter Boys
, p. 204

here
Polish pilots and baled-out Germans: Zamoyski,
The Forgotten Few
, p. 71

Losses August and September
:
GSWW
, vol. ii, p. 388; October losses:
ibid.
, p. 403

‘
You say that England
’: V. N. Pavlov, ‘Avtobiograficheskie Zametki’, in
Novaya i noveishaya istoriya
, Moscow, 2000, p. 105

‘
prolonged banshee howlings
’: quoted Panter-Downes,
London War Notes
, pp. 97–8; ‘The sirens go off’:
ibid.