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The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

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by Andrew Roberts


  46. Ibid., p. 136

  47. Rees, Auschwitz, p. 18

  48. Friedländer, Years of Extermination, p. 500

  49. Manvell and Fraenkel, Heinrich Himmler, p. 251

  50. Friedländer, Years of Extermination, p. 502

  51. Ibid.

  52. Ibid., p. 616

  53. Gilbert, Righteous, for examples of, as the subtitle puts it, ‘unsung heroes of the Holocaust’

  54. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 41

  55. Ibid., p. 19

  56. Levi, If This Is a Man, p. 95

  57. Ibid., p. 175

  58. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, p. 33

  59. Greif, Wept without Tears, p. vii

  60. Roseman, Villa, p. 2

  61. Ibid., pp. 116–17

  62. Roger Moorhouse, BBC History, 9/2003, p. 53

  63. ed. Taylor, Goebbels Diaries, p. 77

  64. Dederichs, Heydrich, p. 144

  65. ed. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 512

  66. Dederichs, Heydrich, p. 154

  67. eds Bartoszewski and Polonsky, Jews in Warsaw, p. 338

  68. Ibid., p. 342

  69. David Cesarani, BBC History, 2/2002, p. 38

  70. Eichmann diary, 6 September 1961, Guardian, 6/3/2000

  71. Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue, pp. 160–61, 163

  72. Ibid., p. 161

  73. Ibid., p. 163

  74. Kitchens, ‘Bombing of Auschwitz’, pp. 259–61

  75. Rubinstein, Myth of Rescue, p. 177

  76. Stanley, World War II Photo Intelligence, p. 348

  77. Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies, p. 305

  78. NA FO371/42817 WR 993, 1/9/1944

  79. Gilbert, Auschwitz and the Allies, p. 303

  80. Ibid., p. 308

  81. Friedlander, Years of Extermination, p. 472

  82. Ibid.

  8: FIVE MINUTES AT MIDWAY

  1. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, p. 177

  2. ed. Wright, World at Arms, pp. 162–3

  3. Prange, Miracle at Midway, p. 145

  4. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 152

  5. Ibid., p. 153

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid., p. 156

  8. Fuchida and Okumiya, Midway, p. 177

  9. Ibid., p. 181

  10. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 156

  11. Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1256

  12. Ibid., p. 1255

  13. Hastings, Nemesis, p. 26

  14. Prange, Miracle at Midway, p. 395

  15. BRGS 2/12

  16. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 515

  17. ed. Wright, World at Arms, p. 346

  18. ed. Parrish, Simon & Schuster, p. 251

  19. Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1250

  20. ed. Wright, World at Arms, p. 350

  21. Hastings, Nemesis, p. xviii

  22. See the TLS debate following John Keegan’s review of Trevor Royle’s biography of Wingate, 16/6/1995 and subsequent weeks

  23. KENN 4/2/5

  24. Calvert, Prisoners of Hope, p. 12

  25. Allen, Burma, p. 127

  26. Ibid., p. 138 n. 3

  27. Ibid., p. 143

  28. Fergusson, Beyond the Chindwin, p. 240

  29. Sykes, Wingate, p. 522

  30. Such as Calvert, Prisoners of Hope and Chindits; Fergusson, Beyond the Chindwin; Masters, Road Past Mandalay; James, Chindit

  31. Fraser, Quartered Safe, p. 130

  32. Masters, Road Past Mandalay, p. 278

  33. Hastings, Nemesis, p. 440

  34. Allen, Burma, p. 662

  35. Mackenzie, All Over the Place, p. 77

  36. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 176

  37. Allen, Burma, p. 228

  38. The numbers vary: see Allen, Burma, p. 234 n. 1, and ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, pp. 653–4 for other estimations

  39. Allen, Burma, p. 232

  40. Ibid., p. 237

  41. Campbell, Siege, p. 81

  42. Allen, Burma, p. 236

  43. Swinson, Kohima, p. 151

  44. ed. Prasad, Reconquest of Burma, p. 279

  45. Allen, Burma, p. 238

  46. Brett-James, Ball of Fire, p. 320

  47. Swinson, Kohima, p. 151

  48. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 654

  49. Allen, Burma, p. 74

  50. Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1278; ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 177

  51. Allen, Burma, p. 74

  52. ed. Cameron Watt, Mein Kampf, p. 601

  53. Figures vary, but see Chang, Rape of Nanking, passim

  54. Ferguson, War of the World, p. 497

  55. Harvey, American Shogun, p. 236

  56. See in particular Rees, Horror in the East; Williams and Wallace, Unit 731; MacArthur, Surviving the Sword; Ferguson, War of the World; Rawlings, And the Dawn

  57. Felton, Slaughter at Sea, pp. 124–36, 145

  58. Ibid., p. 132

  59. Ibid., pp. 124–36

  60. Ibid., pp. 140–44

  61. Ibid., p. 148

  62. Ibid., p. 151

  63. Ibid., p. 172

  64. Ibid., pp. 173–4

  65. Ibid., p. 174

  66. Ibid., p. 176

  9: MIDNIGHT IN THE DEVIL’S GARDENS

  1. Richardson, From Churchill’s Secret Circle, p. 123

  2. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 165

  3. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 223n

  4. Hamilton, Monty: The Making of a General, p. 48

  5. Hew Strachan, TLS, 12/10/2001, p. 26

  6. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 232

  7. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 261

  8. M. R. D. Foot, Spectator, 5/4/2003, p. 40

  9. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 260

  10. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, pp. 139–40

  11. Schulman, Defeat in the West, p. 115

  12. John Keegan, Sunday Telegraph, 5/10/2002, p. A4; Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 339

  13. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 260

  14. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 141n

  15. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 232

  16. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, pp. 376–7

  17. Chant, Code Names, p. 4

  18. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 326; ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 167

  19. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 326; Ellis, Brute Force, pp. 260–64; Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 256

  20. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 262

  21. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 265

  22. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 142

  23. Churchill, Grand Alliance, pp. 176–7

  24. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 326

  25. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 266

  26. Ibid., p. 267

  27. ed. Liddell Hart, Rommel Papers, pp. 285–6

  28. Carver, El Alamein, p. 201

  29. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 166

  30. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 326

  31. Keegan, Second World War, p. 336

  32. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 264

  33. Schmidt, With Rommel, p. 175

  34. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p.282

  35. Ibid., p. 312

  36. ed. Liddell Hart, Rommel Papers, p. 312

  37. eds Danchev and Todman, War Diaries, p. 336

  38. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 311

  39. Alistair Horne in ed. Roberts, Art of War, p. 340

  40. Montgomery, Memoirs, pp. 138–9

  41. Bierman and Smith, Alamein, p. 311

  42. Ibid., p. 325

  43. ed. Tsouras, Greenhill Dictionary, p. 246

  44. Irving, Hitler’s War, p. 328

  45. Carver, El Alamein, p. 204

  46. ed. Liddell Hart, Rommel Papers, p. 315

  47. Allan Mallinson, Spectator, 3/8/2002, p. 36

  48. Carver, El Alamein, p. 195

  49. Keegan, Second World War, p. 337

  50. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 182

  51. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 264

  52. Montgomery, M
emoirs, p. 139

  53. Hew Strachan, Daily Telegraph, 5/4/2003

  54. eds Danchev and Todman, War Diaries, p. 250

  55. Roberts, Masters and Commanders, passim

  56. eds Danchev and Todman, War Diaries, p. 407

  57. Royle, Patton, p. 95

  58. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 36

  59. Royle, Patton, p. 34

  60. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, pp. 33–4

  61. D’Este, Eisenhower, p. 468

  62. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 59

  63. Royle, Patton, p. 29

  64. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 44

  65. Sainsbury, North African Landings, p. 149

  66. Ibid., p. 150

  67. Ibid., p. 154

  68. Ian Sayer Archive

  69. Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph, 2/2/2003, p. 14

  70. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 57

  71. ed. Kimball, Complete Correspondence, 1, p. 584

  72. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 28

  73. Sainsbury, North African Landings, p. 158

  74. Royle, Patton, p. 83

  75. BRGS 2/13

  76. ed. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, p. 347

  77. Sainsbury, North African Landings, p. 162

  78. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, pp. 368–9

  79. Ibid., p. 368

  80. ed. Parrish, Simon & Schuster, p. 329; Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph, 2/2/2003, p. 14; Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 389; Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1197; Sainsbury, North African Landings, p. 164

  81. Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 383

  82. Ibid., p. 384

  83. Ibid., p. 385

  84. Butcher, Three Years, p. 231

  85. Bradley, Soldier’s Story, p. 43

  86. Blumenson, Patton Papers, pp. 187–90

  87. D’Este, Genius for War, p. 484

  88. M. R. D. Foot, Spectator, 5/4/2003, p. 40

  89. Hew Strachan, Daily Telegraph, 5/4/2003; Atkinson, Army at Dawn, p. 3

  90. Churchill, Onwards to Victory, p. 99

  10: THE MOTHERLAND OVERWHELMS THE FATHERLAND

  1. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 526

  2. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 316

  3. Carruthers and Erickson, Russian Front, p. 99

  4. eds Burdick and Jacobsen, Halder War Diary, p. 645

  5. Liddell Hart, Other Side, p. 51

  6. eds Burdick and Jacobsen, Halder War Diary, p. 649

  7. Paulus Museum, Volgograd

  8. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 123

  9. Grossman, Life and Fate, p. 23

  10. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 154

  11. Grossman, Life and Fate, p. 19

  12. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 514

  13. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 145

  14. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 173

  15. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 139

  16. Grossman, Life and Fate, p. 39

  17. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 135

  18. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 515; M. R. D. Foot, The Times, 16/4/1998

  19. Axell, Zhukov

  20. eds Burdick and Jacobsen, Halder War Diary, p. 664

  21. Ibid., p. 667

  22. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 1057

  23. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 515

  24. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 139

  25. Bellamy, Absolute War, pp. 523–4

  26. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 141

  27. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 175

  28. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 163

  29. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 152

  30. eds Burdick and Jacobsen, Halder War Diary, p. 670

  31. Ibid., p. 671

  32. Goldensohn, Nuremberg Interviews, p. 294

  33. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, pp. 167–9

  34. Ibid., p. 165

  35. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 177

  36. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, pp. 171–2, 240

  37. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 175

  38. John Erickson preface to ed. Krivosheev, Soviet Casualties, p. ix; Braithwaite, Moscow 1941, pp. 111–13

  39. Braithwaite, Moscow 1941, pp. 111–13

  40. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 159

  41. Beevor, Stalingrad, p. 198

  42. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 158

  43. Ibid.

  44. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 517

  45. Ibid., pp. 511–12

  46. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 211

  47. eds Burdick and Jacobsen, Halder War Diary, p. 345

  48. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 533

  49. Ibid.

  50. Thames TV, The World at War, Part Two, Disc 1

  51. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 1059

  52. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 321

  53. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 536

  54. Goldensohn, Nuremberg Interviews, p. 355

  55. eds Freidin and Richardson, Fatal Decisions, p. 165

  56. Ian Sayer Archive

  57. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 183

  58. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, pp. 207, 236

  59. eds Beevor and Vinogradova, Writer at War, p. 198

  60. eds Heiber and Glantz, Hitler and his Generals, pp. 27–8

  61. Manstein, Lost Victories, Appendix I, p. 554

  62. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 321; Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1192; see Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 184 for slightly larger estimates

  63. Thames TV, The World at War, Part Two, Disc 1

  64. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 185

  65. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 321

  66. Ibid., pp. 321–2

  67. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 254

  68. Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 194

  69. Clark, Barbarossa, p. 323

  70. Beevor, Stalingrad, p. 354

  71. ed. Tsouras, Greenhill Dictionary, p. 464

  72. eds Heiber and Glantz, Hitler and his Generals, p. 59

  73. Historians dispute the exact figures: see Beevor, Stalingrad, Appendix B; Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1202; Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 550; Mellenthin, Panzer Battles, p. 183; ed. Parrish, Simon & Schuster, p. 600

  74. Bellamy, Absolute War, p. 550

  75. Chuikov, Beginning of the Road, p. 359

  76. John Erickson preface to ed. Krivosheev, Soviet Casualties, p. ix

  77. Beevor, Stalingrad, pp. 184, 384–5

  78. eds Freidin and Richardson, Fatal Decisions, p. 165

  79. Nigel Nicolson, Spectator, 2/5/1998, p. 34

  80. Domarus, Essential Hitler, pp. 767–8

  81. Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Ruler, p. 47

  11: THE WAVES OF AIR AND SEA

  1. ed. Langworth, Churchill by Himself, p. 304

  2. BBC, Desert Island Discs, 28/3/1988

  3. Bennett, Behind the Battle, pp. 75, 241–2

  4. The Times, 24/10/2008, p. 47

  5. For a full explanation for how these worked, read Budiansky, Battle of Wits and Sebag Montefiore, Enigma

  6. Lewin, ULTRA Goes to War, p. 14

  7. Sebag Montefiore, Enigma, pp. 296–7

  8. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. xix n. 1

  9. Budiansky, Battle of Wits, p. 207

  10. Sebag Montefiore, Enigma, p. 297

  11. Budiansky, Battle of Wits, p. 207; Hinsley, British Intelligence, 11, p. 174

  12. Sebag Montefiore, Enigma, p. 359

  13. Bennett, Behind the Battle, pp. 75, 241–2

  14. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 133

  15. Churchill, Their Finest Hour, p. 529

  16. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 133

  17. Ibid., p. 134; ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 223

  18. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, p. 107

  19. ed. Showell, Fuehrer Conferences, p. viii

  20. Padfield, War beneath the Sea, p. 10

  21. Kennedy, Pursuit, p. 22
r />   22. ed. Dear, Oxford Companion, p. 905

  23. Evans, Third Reich at War, p. 480

  24. ed. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp. 102–3

  25. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 143

  26. Kennedy, Pursuit, p. 54

  27. Holmes, World at War, pp. 88–9

  28. Monsarrat, Cruel Sea, p. 259

  29. Ibid., p. 277

  30. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 223

  31. Evans, Third Reich at War, p. 481; see ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 223 for larger figures

  32. Ellis, Brute Force, pp. 146–7

  33. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 180

  34. Kennedy, Pursuit, p. 24

  35. Holmes, World at War, pp. 88–9

  36. Monsarrat, Cruel Sea, pp. 139–40

  37. Ministry of Information, What Britain Has Done, p. 51

  38. Churchill, Grand Alliance, p. 107

  39. Kennedy, Pursuit, pp. 24–5

  40. Ibid., p. 85

  41. Wheal and Pope, Dictionary, p. 58

  42. Kennedy, Pursuit, p. 86

  43. Wheal and Pope, Dictionary, p. 58

  44. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 66

  45. ed. Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s Table Talk, p. 708

  46. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 66

  47. Ibid., p. 181

  48. Monsarrat, Cruel Sea, p. 369

  49. Ibid.

  50. NA War Cabinet Minutes WM (42) 124th Meeting, p. 148

  51. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 174

  52. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 147n

  53. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 184

  54. Holmes, World at War, pp. 168, 229

  55. Evans, Third Reich at War, p. 481

  56. Budiansky, Battle of Wits, pp. 284–6

  57. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 194

  58. Budiansky, Battle of Wits, pp. 285–6

  59. Holmes, World at War, pp. 168, 229

  60. BRGS 2/15

  61. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 238

  62. Ibid., p. 239

  63. ed. Showell, Fuehrer Conferences, p. 331 ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 224

  64. ed. Showell, Fuehrer Conferences, p. 334

  65. Evans, Third Reich at War, pp. 327–8

  66. Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 197

  67. Monsarrat, Cruel Sea, p. 259

  68. Padfield, War beneath the Sea, p. 374

  69. Donald Michie, Spectator, 25/2/2006, p. 39

  70. Watkins, Cracking the Luftwaffe Codes, p. 19

  71. Holmes, World at War, pp. 167, 229–30; Ellis, Brute Force, p. 144; Bennett, Behind the Battle, p. 182

  72. ed. Young, Decisive Battles, p. 224

  73. Ellis, Brute Force, p. 157, table 6

  74. Ibid., p. 158

  12: UP THE WASP-WAIST PENINSULA

  1. Churchill, Dawn of Liberation, p. 86

  2. Clark, Anzio, p. 13

  3. Dupuy and Dupuy, Encyclopedia, p. 1199

 

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