World War II: The Autobiography (88 page)

Neave, Airey, “Escape from Colditz” is an extract from
They Have Their Exits,
Hodder & Stoughton, 1953

Nell, Sgt., “Waiting, Waiting, Waiting”, quoted in
Private Words,
ed. Ronald Blythe, Viking 1991.

Nicolson, Harold, “Lunch with De Gaulle” is an extract from
Harold Nicolson, Diaries & Letters
1939–45, ed Nigel Nicolson, Collins, 1971

Panter-Downes, Mollie, “Victory in Europe Celebration” (originally “Letter from London”),
The Mew Yorker,
12 May 1945. Copyright © 1945 Mollie Panter-Downes

Pyle, Ernie, “The U.S. Army Slogs Up Italy”, “Sniping, Normandy” are from the Washington
Daily News.
Copyright © 1944 and 1945 the Scripps Howard Foundation

Rommel, Manfred, “The Suicide of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel” is an extract from
The Rommel Papers,
ed B.H. Liddell Hart, Collins, 1953. Copyright © 1953 B.H. Liddell Hart, renewed 1981 Lady Liddell Hart, Fritz Bayerlain-Dittmar and Manfred Rommel

Scott, Michael, “One Man’s War: The Diary of a Trainee Bomber Pilot”, unpublished diary, Imperial War Museum, London

Skorzeny, Otto, “The Rescue of Mussolini from Gran Sasso” is an extract from
Special Mission,
Robert Hale Ltd, 1957. Copyright © 1957 Otto Skorzeny

Steinbeck, John, “The Landings at Salerno” (originally published as “It Was as Dark as Hell”), New York
Herald Tribune,
4 October 1943. Copyright © 1943 NY
Herald Tribune

Wendel, Else, “Home Front: Firestorm in Hamburg” is an extract from
Hausfrau at War,
Odhams Press, 1947

Wray, Rachel, “Home Front: Rachel the Riveter” is an extract from
The Home Front: America During World War II,
Mark Harris, Putnam, 1984. Copyright © 1984 Mark J. Harris

Young, John S., “US Bombers Raid the Oil Refineries at Ploesti” is extracted from
Bombs Away!,
ed Stanley M. Ulanoff, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971

Part VII: The Road to Berlin

Anonymous Fighter, “Warsaw Uprising” is an extract from
The Unseen and Silent,
Sheed & Ward, 1954

Boldt, Gerhard, “A Meeting with Hitler” is an extract from
In the Shelter with Hitler,
Citadel Press, 1948

Degrelle, Leon, “Wounded SS Troops” is an extract from
Eyewitness War,
The Publishing Corporation UK Ltd., 1995. Copyright © 1995 Marshall Cavendish

Fuhrman, Claus, “The Fall of Berlin” is an extract from
Follow My Leader,
Louis E. Hagen, Allan Wingate, 1951

Gliewe, Hans, “Germans Fleeing the Russian Advance” is an extract from
Flight in the Winter,
Juergen Thorwald, Hutchinson, 1953

Grigoryevich, Zhuravlev Alexander, “An Unfortunate Day on the Eastern Front”, is an extract from
The Road to Victory,
www.vor.ru/victory/veteranes/zhuravlev_eng.html Copyright © Voice of Russia, 2003

Guderian, Heinz, “Gotterdammerung” is an extract from
Panzer Leader,
Michael Joseph, 1952, trans Constantine Fitzgibbon

Kampov, Major, “Concentrated Slaughter” is an extract from
Russia at War,
Alexander Werth, Barry & Rockcliff, 1964

Mellenthin, General von, “Citadel” is an extract from
Panzer Battles,
Cassell, 1955

Stalin, Marshal, “Order of the Day No. 369” is a quotation from
The Pocket History of the Second World War,
ed Henry Steele Commager, Pocket Books, 1945

Part VIII: Setting Sun

Akizuki, Tatsuichiro, “Nagasaki” is an extract from
Nagasaki 1945,
Quartet, 1981. Copyright © Tatsuiro Akizuki and Keiichi Nagata

Anonymous Japanese Soldier, “An Allied Intelligence Officer is Executed” is an extract from
Mac Arthur, 1941–45: Victory in the Pacific,
Charles A. Willoughby and John Chamberlain, McGraw-Hill, 1956

Bilek, Anton, “Life in a Japanese P.O.W. Camp” is an extract from
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II,
ed. Studs Terkel, Hamish Hamilton, 1985

Boyington, Gregory, “A Marine Corps Pilot is Shot Down” is an extract from
Baa Baa Black Sheep,
Putnam’s, 1958

Branson, Clive, “One Man’s War: The Arakan Front” is an extract from
British Soldier in India,
British Communist Party, 1994

Bush, Eric, “ ‘A Frightful Fate’ ” is an extract from
Bless Our Ship,
Allen & Unwin, 1958

Chapman, F. Spencer, “An English Officer Escapes the Japanese”,
The Jungle is Neutral,
Chatto & Windus, 1975

English, Jeffrey, “One for Every Sleeper” is an extract from
One for Every Sleeper,
Robert Hale Ltd., 1989. Copyright © 1989 Jeffrey English

Evans, Geoffrey C., “The Skirmish at Admin Box” is an extract from
The Desert and the Jungle,
William Kimber, 1959

Fahey, James J., “Kamikaze Attacks” is an extract from
Pacific War Diary,
Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Copyright © James J. Fahey

Fergusson, Bernard, “Death of a Friend” is an extract from
Beyond the Chindwin,
Corgi, 1957

Garcia, John, “Okinawa: An Infantryman’s Nightmare” is an extract from
“The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II,
ed. Studs Terkel, Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Copyright © 1984 Studs Terkel

Johnston, G.H., “The Kokoda Trail”, quoted in
The Pocket History of the Second World War,
ed. Henry Steele Commager, Pocket Books, 1945

Kennard, Richard, “One Man’s War: A Marine Writes Home” is an extract from
Combat Letters Home,
Dorance & Company, 1958

Masters, John, “Close-Quarter Fighting”, “The Dagger Division Takes Mandala” are extracts from
The Road Past Mandalay,
Michael Joseph, 1961

Matsuo, Isao, “ ‘I Shall Fall Like a Blossom from a Radiant Cherry Tree’ ” is an extract from
The Divine Wind,
ed Rikihei Inoguchi et al, Hutchinson, 1959

Matsushita, Iwao, “Home Front: Internment of Japanese Americans” is quoted in
Letters of a Nation,
ed. Andrew Carroll, Kodansha America Inc., 1997

Ogburn, Charlton, “Bamboo, Dysentery, Leeches” is an extract from
The Marauders,
William Morrow & Company, 1956. Copyright © Charlton Ogburn, 1956, 1959, 1982

Paige, Mitchell, “The Defence of Henderson Field” is an extract from
The Old Breed,
George McMillan, Infantry Journal Press, 1949. Copyright © 1949 Infantry Journal Inc.

Sledge, Eugene B., “Assault into Hell”, “Marines Storm a Pill-Box” are extracts from
With the Old Breed,
Presidio Press, 1981. Copyright © 1981 E.B. Sledge

Tibbets, Colonel, “Hiroshima” is an extract from
The World at War,
Mark Arnold-Forster, Methuen-Mandarin, 1989. Copyright © 1973, 1981 Thames Television Ltd

Truman, Harry S., “The Allies decide to drop the Atomic Bomb” is an extract from
Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman,
Harper & Row, 1986

Epilogue: The Execution of Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg

Smith, Kingsbury, “Execution of Nazi War Criminals” is an extract from
It Happened in 1946,
1947

ENDNOTES

¹
The Ju 87 dive – bomber (“Stuka”¹), an essential instrument
of Blitzkrieg.

²
Asdic – the abbreviation of Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee – was the echo-sounding equipment used by surface vessels to detect submerged U-boats.

³
This was U-100, captained by Joachim Schepke

⁴
“Honey”: a M3 Light Cavalry Tank or “Stuart”.

⁵
Alam Halfa

⁶
Alam el Halfa, fought 31 August–7 September 1942 when Rommel launched an offensive against the ridge of that name.

⁷
Churchill was a former First Lord of the Admiralty.

⁸
The legendary, legless Douglas Bader, call-sign “Dogsbody”.

⁹
Soldiers’ slang for military police and S.S. commandos rounding up “shirkers”. (
Translator’s note.
)