Masters and Commanders
Page 79
7. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 80/37
8. Black, Roosevelt, p. 798
9. Gilbert, ‘Churchill and D-Day’, p. 26
10. AVON 20/1/22
11. ed. Taylor, Churchill, p. 193
12. KENN 4/2/4, p. 280
13. BRGS 2/13, 16/11/1942
14. KENN 4/2/4, p. 280
15. ed. Kemper, Resolution, p. 87
16. CUNN Add MSS 52570/123
17. BRGS 2/13, 30/11/1942
18. KENN 4/2/4, p. 302
19. Ibid., p. 307
20. Ibid., pp. 307–8
21. Danchev, ‘Waltzing’, p. 221
22. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 347–8
23. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 58/30
24. KENN 4/2/5, 24/5/1943
25. CAB 195/2 WM (42) 168th
26. CHAR 20/85/13
27. ed. Harvey, War Diaries, p. 200
28. Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vii, pp. 281–2
29. KENN 4/2/4, pp. 311–12
30. Brodhurst, Churchill’s Anchor, p. 261
31. CAB 195/2 WM (42) 170th
32. FDR Personal File 8277
33. CAB 195/2 WM (42) 171st; CAB 195/2 WM (43) 1st
34. CAB 195/2 WM (42) 171st
35. AVON 20/1/22
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Morison, American Contributions, pp. 14–15
39. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 4th
40. Tedder, With Prejudice, Preface
41. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 357
42. Nicolson, Alex, p. 171
43. LEAH Leahy Diary reel 4, p. 71
44. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 358
CHAPTER 12: THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE: JANUARY 1943
1. Berlin, Mr Churchill, pp. 37–8
2. Astley, Inner Circle, p. 87
3. JACB 1/21/32
4. JACB 1/21/33–4
5. KENN 4/2/4, p. 291, 27/11/1942
6. JACB 1/21/35
7. JACB 1/21/52
8. JACB 1/21/37
9. ed. Huston, American Airpower, i, p. 463
10. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 359
11. KENN 4/2/5, p. 12
12. Ibid.
13. Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 182
14. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports!, p. 178
15. Ibid., p. 181
16. ed. Sherwood, White House Papers, ii, p. 672
17. MHI Wedemeyer 1973 Interview section 5, p. 28
18. Black, Roosevelt, p. 93
19. Roosevelt, As He Saw It, p. 83
20. Macmillan, War Diaries, p. 8
21. LH 15/15/1
22. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 360
23. Ibid., p. 361
24. Moran, Struggle for Survival, pp. 720–21
25. FRUS, Washington, 1941–1942 and Casablanca, 1943, p. 594
26. ed. Huston, American Airpower, i, p. 463
27. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 35
28. Ibid., p. 37
29. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 361
30. ALAB 6/1/1, p. 236
31. Ibid., p. 239; Hayes, History of the Joint Chiefs, pp. 286–8
32. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports!, p. 167
33. KENN 4/2/5, p. 25
34. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 362
35. Ibid.; Danchev, ‘Very Special Relationship’, p. 6
36. Mosley, Marshall, pp. xi, 227
37. Black, Roosevelt, p. 799
38. JACB 1/2/44
39. Gilbert, ‘Churchill and D-Day’, p. 26
40. JACB 1/21/50
41. MHI Handy Interview 1974 section 3, p. 42
42. MHI Hull Interview 1973 section 4, p. 12
43. Macmillan, War Diaries, p. 8
44. JACB 1/21/25
45. MHI Wedemeyer 1973 Interview section 5, pp. 27–8
46. MHI Wedemeyer 1972 Interview section 4, p. 3
47. ed. Bland, Interviews, p. 608; MAR GCM Library Xerox 2256
48. KENN 4/2/5, p. 38
49. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 364
50. JACB 1/21/44
51. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 366
52. JACB 1/21/44
53. KENN 4/2/5, p. 44
54. Ibid.
55. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 367
56. ALAB 6/1/1, p. 236
57. Arnold, Global Mission, p. 204
58. Black, Roosevelt, pp. 805–6
59. PEAK Correspondence, 26/12/1944
60. Wedemeyer, Wedemeyer Reports!, p. 179
61. Ibid., p. 181; MHI Wedemeyer 1972 Interview section 4, p. 16
62. BLAC
63. Jackson and Bramall, The Chiefs, p. 239
64. LH 15/15/1
CHAPTER 13: THE HARD UNDERBELLY OF EUROPE: JANUARY–JUNE 1943
1. Sunday Telegraph review of Fraser, Alanbrooke, 2/5/1982
2. JACB 1/21/42
3. ALAB 9/3/8
4. Coombs, Life through his Paintings, p. 163
5. BBC interview in 1959, Videotape no. VC338475
6. Sandys, Chasing Churchill, p. 160; BRGS 1/3
7. Hassett, Off the Record, pp. 151–2
8. Beevor, Stalingrad, pp. 387ff.
9. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, 133
10. KENN 4/2/5, p. 38
11. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 88
12. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 34th
13. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 386
14. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 37th
15. Ibid.
16. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 40th
17. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 48th, 6/4/1943
18. BRGS 2/16, 8/3/1943
19. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 44th
20. BRGS 2/16, 29/3/1943
21. Dupuy, Genius for War, pp. 253–5
22. CAB 65/38, p. 6
23. KENN 4/2/3
24. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 53rd
25. Alex Danchev in eds Reynolds and Kimball, Allies at War, p. 18
26. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 394
27. ed. Hart-Davis, King’s Counsellor, p. 129
28. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 39
29. LEAH Reel 4, pp. 109–10
30. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 96
31. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 402
32. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 96
33. LEAH Reel 4, p. 110; Leahy, I Was There, p. 191
34. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 403–4
35. Tuchman, Stilwell, p. 371
36. Astley, Inner Circle, p. 95
37. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 116
38. Black, Roosevelt, p. 832
39. MAR D736/1B3
40. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 116
41. ALAB 11/73, 23/6/1955
42. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 405
43. LEAH Reel 4, p. 111
44. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 406
45. Jackson and Bramall, The Chiefs, p. 243
46. ALAB 9/3/8
47. Howard, Grand Strategy, iv, p. 432
48. Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 183
49. Leahy, I Was There, p. 193
50. FRUS, Washington and Quebec, 1943, pp. 34–48
51. Leahy, I Was There, p. 194
52. LEAH Reel 4, p. 113
53. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 410
54. Stimson and Bundy, Active Service, p. 223
55. Blum, Years of War, p. 63
56. ed. Bland, Papers, iii, p. 708
57. ed. Bland, Interviews, 20/11/1956, pp. 552–3
58. Churchill, Hinge of Fate, pp. 812–13
59. Ismay, Memoirs, p. 253; ed. Soames, Speaking for Themselves, p. 483
60. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 272
61. Roosevelt, As He Saw It, pp. 144, 184
62. Eisenhower, At Ease, p. 264
63. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, pp. 3–4
64. Morgan, FDR, p. 632
65
. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 79
66. Ibid., p. 103
67. MHI Typescript for John R. Deane’s Strange Alliance, 1946
68. CAB 195/2, WM (43) 81st
69. Ibid.
70. BRGS 2/17, 7/6/1943
CHAPTER 14: THE OVERLORDSHIP OF OVERLORD: JUNE–AUGUST 1943
1. MHI Charles Donnelly Autobiography, p. 640
2. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 420
3. Leahy, I Was There, p. 195
4. Roosevelt, Rendezvous with Destiny, p. 338
5. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, pp. 303–4
6. KENN 4/2/5
7. ed. Dilks, Cadogan, p. 545
8. CAB 195/2 WM (43) 94th, 7/7/1943
9. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 427
10. BRGS 2/17, 12/7/43
11. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 40
12. Ibid.
13. Stimson and Bundy, Active Service, p. 222
14. Ibid., p. 226
15. Ibid.
16. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 45
17. KENN 4/2/5
18. Nicolson, Alex, p. 206
19. Butcher, Three Years, p. 330
20. Nicolson, Alex, p. 207
21. ALAB 9/3/8; KENN 4/2/5
22. AVON 20/1/23
23. Brodhurst, Churchill’s Anchor, p. 281
24. Astley, Inner Circle, pp. 103–4
25. MHI Pogue Interview, 26/2/1947, p. 1
26. Astley, Inner Circle, p. 109
27. Jackson and Bramall, The Chiefs, p. 247
28. Cozzens, Guard of Honor, p. 395
29. Stimson and Bundy, Active Service, pp. 228–9
30. Morgan, Overture to Overlord, pp. 159, 181, 188
31. Howard, Grand Strategy, iv, pp. 563, 569
32. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 441–2
33. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 720
34. Churchill, Closing the Ring, p. 76
35. CHUR 4/319A/7
36. Ibid.
37. Stimson and Bundy, Active Service, pp. 228–9
38. ALAB 11/64
39. KENN 4/2/5, 13/9/1943
40. MHI Pogue Interview, 17/12/46, pp. 1–2
CHAPTER 15: FROM THE ST LAWRENCE TO THE PYRAMIDS: AUGUST–NOVEMBER 1943
1. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 447
2. Ibid., p. 442
3. ed. Bland, Interviews, 5/10/1956, p. 590
4. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 443
5. Danchev, On Specialness, p. 27
6. MHI Pogue Interview, 26/2/1947, p. 4
7. Liddell Hart in ed. Taylor, Churchill, p. 194
8. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 445
9. Ibid., pp. 444–5
10. Ibid., pp. 445–6; Leahy, I Was There, p. 213; MHI Donnelly Autobiography, pp. 633–4
11. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, pp. 91–4; FRUS, Washington and Quebec, 1943, pp. 1024–5
12. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 709; Rose, Churchill, p. 323
13. MHI Wedemeyer 1973 Interview section 5, p. 35
14. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 447–8; Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 184
15. ASTL Major Buckley Recollections
16. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 449
17. KENN 4/2/5
18. Nicolson in Financial Times, 24/4/1982
19. KENN 4/2/5
20. Ibid.
21. See Howard, Captain Professor for a first-hand account of the Italian campaign
22. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 42
23. Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, p. 387
24. AVON 20/1/23
25. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, p. 506
26. Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 185
27. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, pp. 498–9; Ehrman, Grand Strategy, v, p. 95
28. Morison, American Contributions, p. 32; ed. Bland, Interviews, p. 622
29. ed. Bland, Interviews, p. 321
30. Reynolds, In Command, pp. 357–8
31. KENN 4/2/5
32. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, pp. 128–9
33. Butcher, Three Years, p. 360
34. BRGS 2/18
35. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 81/2
36. Ibid.
37. AVON 20/1/23
38. AVON 20/1/24, 18/11/1944
39. KENN 4/2/5
40. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 386
41. ed. Hart-Davis, King’s Counsellor, p. 176
42. Reynolds, In Command, pp. 379–80
43. DUPO 2/3; Pawle, The War and Colonel Warden, p. 253
44. Colville, Footprints, p. 188
45. Jackson and Bramall, The Chiefs, p. 250
46. Winton, Cunningham, p. 211
47. Frank McLynn in Literary Review, September 1998, p. 17
48. Winton, Cunningham, p. 337
49. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, pp. 555–7
50. CHAR 20/122/22
51. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 462
52. Ibid., pp. 462–3
53. Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 186
54. Stoler, Politics of the Second Front, p. 131; ed. Dilks, Cadogan, p. 571
55. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, pp. 35, 56
56. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 81/4
57. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 562
58. KENN 4/2/5
59. Ibid.
60. eds Danchev and Todman, Diary, p. 465
61. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 47
62. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, pp. 127, 176–8
63. ed. Hart-Davis, King’s Counsellor, p. 176
64. CHAR 20/124/5
CHAPTER 16: EUREKA! AT TEHERAN: NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 1943
1. Arnold, Global Mission, p. 219
2. Ehrman, Grand Strategy, v, p. 111; Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 187
3. Leighton, ‘Overlord Revisited’
4. MHI Sidney Matthews Box 3, 15/11/1943
5. KENN 4/2/5
6. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 472–3
7. MHI Sidney Matthews Box 3, 19/11/1943
8. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 81/5
9. MHI Sidney Matthews Box 3, 19/11/1943
10. Ibid.
11. MHI Charles Donnelly Autobiography, p. 672
12. Douglas, Years of Command, p. 229
13. Cunningham, Odyssey, p. 586
14. ASTL Major Buckley’s Recollections
15. MHI Charles Donnelly World War II Conferences Box
16. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 477, 479; ed. Bland, Papers, iv, p. 192
17. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 478
18. Arnold, Global Mission, p. 220
19. Ronald Lewin in The Times, 13/5/1982
20. ed. White, Stilwell Papers, pp. 230–32
21. Douglas, Years of Command, p. 188
22. Pogue, Ordeal and Hope, pp. 330–31
23. Black, Roosevelt, p. 799
24. ed. White, Stilwell Papers, pp. 230–32
25. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 478–80
26. Tuchman, Stilwell, pp. 403–4
27. MHI Wedemeyer 1973 Interview section 6, p. 7
28. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, p. 192
29. MHI Charles Donnelly Autobiography, p. 669
30. Ibid., p. 670
31. Arnold, Global Mission, p. 221
32. ed. Dilks, Cadogan, p. 578
33. Stoler, Allies and Adversaries, chapters 6 and 7
34. ed. Dilks, Cadogan, p. 539
35. Moran, Struggle for Survival, p. 131
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid., p. 132
38. Ingersoll, Top Secret, p. 48
39. eds Danchev and Todman, War Diaries, p. 481
40. Cunningham, Odyssey, p. 587
41. FRUS, Cairo and Tehran, 1943, pp. 150–51, 363–5
42. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 476, 43. ASTL Major Buckley Rec
ollections
44. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 483
45. FRUS, Cairo and Tehran, 1943, pp. 499–501, 505–7
46. Arnold, Global Mission, p. 224
47. ASTL Major Buckley Recollections
48. Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, pp. 70–71
49. Lunghi, ‘Troubled Triumvirate’, pp. 17–18
50. Churchill, Closing the Ring, pp. 377, 378
51. Leahy, I Was There, p. 191
52. Sherwood, White House Papers, ii, p. 778
53. Ibid.
54. Letter to author from Hugh Lunghi, 2/1/2008; Brian Bond in eds Freedman and others, War, Strategy, p. 187
55. MHI Wedemeyer 1973 Interview section 5, p. 35
56. Deane, Strange Alliance, p. 42
57. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, p. 194
58. Harriman and Abel, Special Envoy, p. 271
59. Ibid.
60. ALAB 3/8
61. Bohlen, Witness to History, pp. 149–50
62. Ehrman, Grand Strategy, v, p. 189
63. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 57 n. 3
64. Holmes, Footsteps, p. 263
65. ed. Bland, Interviews, p. 344
66. Stimson and Bundy, Active Service, pp. 222–3
67. Ibid.
68. MHI Handy Interview 1974 section 4, p. 30
69. Roosevelt, As He Saw It, p. 210
CHAPTER 17: ANZIO, ANVIL AND CULVERIN: DECEMBER 1943–MAY 1944
1. Churchill, Finest Hour, p. 20
2. KENN 4/2/5, 9/12/1943
3. ed. Kimball, Correspondence, ii, pp. 622–3
4. Hastings, Overlord, p. 32
5. eds Heiber and Glantz, Hitler and his Generals, p. 316
6. CHAR 20/130/39
7. CHAR 20/179/37
8. MAR GCM Library Xerox 2256, note 14; Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 58
9. Clark, Calculated Risk, p. 348
10. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 51
11. ed. Bland, Interviews, p. 339
12. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, p. 459
13. Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters, p. 411
14. eds Reynolds and Kimball, Allies at War, p. 13
15. LH 15/15/2
16. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 80/31
17. BRGS 2/19
18. Eisenhower, At Ease, p. 273
19. ed. Chandler, Papers, iii, p. 1707
20. ALAB 6/2/3/B
21. ed. Nicolson, Diaries and Letters, p. 348
22. BRGS 2/19
23. MAR Pentagon Papers Box 81/9
24. ed. Chandler, Papers, iii, pp. 1732–6
25. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, pp. 313–14
26. BRGS 2/19
27. Ehrman, Grand Strategy, v, pp. 230–31
28. Marshall, Together, p. 188; Meacham, Franklin and Winston, p. 274
29. Howard, Mediterranean Strategy, p. 59
30. eds Danchev and Todman, Diaries, pp. 529, 530
31. ed. Bland, Papers, iv, p. 342
32. Dupuy, Genius for War, p. 254