by Jon E. Lewis
Part IV: Barbarossa
Anonymous German soldiers, “Stalingrad: Last Letters Home” are extracts from Last Letters from Stalingrad, Methuen, 1956
Anonymous Officer, 24th Panzer Division, “Stalingrad: ‘The Rat War’ ”, quoted in The Second World War, John Keegan, Arrow Books, 1990
Blumentritt, Gunther, “The Wehrmacht Advances into Russia” is an extract from The Fatal Decisions, ed W. Richardson and S. Freidin, Michael Joseph, 1956
Cassidy, Henry C., “Mr Churchill Goes to Moscow” is an extract from The Story of World War II, ed Curt Riess, Garden City Publishing, 1944
Fuchs, Karl, “We’re going to Show . . .” is reprinted from Sieg Heil!, ed Horst Fuchs Richardson, Anchor, 1987
Graebe, Hermann, “Holocaust: SS Execution of Jews in the Ukraine” is an extract from Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, US Government Printing Office, 1946
Grigoryevich, Zhuravlev Alexander, “One Man’s War: A Muscovite Joins the Red Army”, is an extract from The Road to Victory, www.vor.-ru/victory/veteranes/zhuravlev_eng.html Copyright © Voice of Russia, 2003
Guderian, Heinz, “Operation Barbarossa: Invasion of the Soviet Union” is an extract from Panzer Leader, Michael Joseph, 1952. Trans Constantine Fitzgibbon
Haape, Heinrich, “The Arrival of ‘General Winter’ ”, is an extract from Moscow Tram Stop, Collins, 1957
Knoblich, Wolfgang, “One Man’s War: A Wehrmacht Soldier’s Diary of the Russian Front” is an extract from True to Type, Hutchinson, 1946
Manstein, General Erich von, “The Battle for Sevastapol” is an extract from Lost Victories, Methuen, 1958
Rudel, Hans, “Stukas Dive Bomb the Soviet Fleet”, is an extract from Stuka Pilot, Corgi, 1957. Trans Lynton Hudson
Werth, Alexander, “Leningrad during the Blockade” is an extract from Moscow War Diary, Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. Copyright © 1942 Alexander Werth
Wieder, Joachim, “Stalingrad: The Suffering of the German Troops”, “Stalingrad: Taken Prisoner” are extracts from Stalingrad: Memories & Reassessments, Joachim Wieder & H. Graf von Einsiedel, Arms & Armour Press, 1993. Copyright © 1993 Joachim Wieder
Zieser, Benno, “Stalingrad: The Rat War” is an extract from The Road to Stalingrad, Ballantine Books, 1956. Copyright © 1956 Benno Zieser
Part V: Banzai
Adams, Milton, “Home Front: ‘Jim Crow’ in the Army” is an extract from Taps for a Jim Crow Army, ed Philip McGuire, 1983
Casey, Robert J., “Battle of Midway: One Man’s Diary” is an extract from The Story of World War II, ed Curt Riess, Garden City Publishing Co., 1944
Chennault, Claire L., “Flying Tiger: An American Volunteer Group Pilot in Action Against the Japanese” is an extract from Way of a Fighter, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1949. Copyright © 1949 Claire L. Chennault
Doolittle, James, “Raid on Tokyo” is an extract from Bombs Away!, ed Stanley M. Ulanoff, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971
Dyess, William, “Death March on Bataan” is an extract from The Dyess Story, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1944. Copyright © 1944 Marajen Stevick Dyess
Fisher, O.E., “The Fall of Singapore: A Civilian Diary”, reprinted from Diary of the Invasion of Singapore, http://freespace.virgin.net/sam.campbell/message.ht.
Fuchida, Mitsuo, “Pearl Harbor: The View from the Japanese Cockpit” (originally “I Led the Attack on Pearl Harbor” is extracted from Bombs Away!, ed Stanley M. Ulanoff, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971
Fuchida, Mitsuo, “Midway: The Decisive Five Minutes” is from Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan (with Masataka Okumiya), Hutchinson, 1957
Gallagher, O.D., “The Loss of the Repulse and Prince of Wales”, Daily Express, 12 December 1941
Garcia, John, “Pearl Harbor: The View from the Ground” is an extract from “The Good War”: An Oral History of World War II, ed Studs Turkel, Hamish Hamilton, 1985. Copyright © 1984 Studs Terkel
Manchester, William, “Boot Camp: The Making of a Marine” is an extract from Goodbye, Darkness, Little Brown, 1980
Slim, W.J., “Burma: The Battle of the Oilfields” is an extract from Defeat Into Victory, Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1956
Part VI: Resistance & Reconquest
Air Ministry, “Notification of the Death of Acting Squadron Leader Ernest Mason” is quoted in Freedom’s Battle II: The War in the Air, ed Gavin Lyall, Hutchinson, 1968
Anonymous, “Home Front: Pure Hell for a Guy Not in Uniform” is an extract from Six War Years, 1939–45: Memories of Canadians at Home and Abroad, Doubleday, 1974. Copyright © 1974 Barry Broadfoot
Anonymous WAAF, “The Home Front: The Great Man Chase” is an extract from Speak for Yourself, ed Angus Calder & Dorothy Sheridan, Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1984. Copyright © 1984 the Tom Harrisson Mass-Observation Archive
Blaha, Franz, “Holocaust: Medical Experiments at Dachau” is an extract from Trial of the Major German War Criminals, Proceedings of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, HMSO, 1946
Bond, Howard L., “Cowardice, Cassino” is an extract from Return to Cassino, Doubleday, 1964
Bone, H.T., “D-Day: The Landings”, unpublished letter, Imperial War Museum, London
Bowlby, Alex, “Officer Selection” is an extract from The Recollections of Rifleman Bowlby, Leo Cooper Ltd, 1969. Copyright © 1969 Alex Bowlby
Burgett, Donald, “D-Day: A Paratrooper Lists His Kit” is an extract from Curahee!, Hutchinson, 1967
Butcher, Harry C., “Ike’s Day Before D-Day” is an extract from Three Years with Eisenhower, William Heinemann Ltd, 1946
Byrom, James, “Victory in Europe Celebration” is an extract from Unfinished Man, Chatto & Windus, 1957
Cox, Geoffrey, “Italian Partisans Take Their Revenge” is an extract from The Road to Trieste, Heinemann, 1947
Dawson, Joseph “D-Day: The Landings” is an extract from Eye-Witness D-Day, ed. Jon E. Lewis, Robinson, 1994
Dimbleby, Richard, “Holocaust: A Reporter Visits Belsen” (originally “The Cess Pit Beneath” is an extract from Richard Dimbleby: Broadcaster, ed Leonard Miall, BBC, 1966. Copyright © 1966 BBC
Foley, John, “Crossing the German Border” is an extract from Mailed Fist, Panther Books, 1956
Frank, Anne, “Holocaust: The Jews are Rounded Up” is an extract from Anne Frank’s Diary, Vallentine Mitchell & Co., Ltd. Copyright © 1958 Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., Ltd
Gavin, James M., “Sicily: An American Counter-Attack at Biazza Ridge” is extracted from Eyewitness to World War II, ed Stephen W. Sears, Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Copyright © 1991 American Heritage, a division of Forbes Inc.
Gellhorn, Martha, “The Battle of the Bulge: The Aftermath” (originally“The Battle of the Bulge”) is an extract from The Face of War, Granta Books, 1988. Copyright © 1945 Martha Gellhorn
Gibson, Guy, “The Dambusters Raid” is an extract from Enemy Coast Ahead, Michael Joseph, 1946. Copyright © 1956 the Estate of Guy Gibson
Goebbels, Joseph, “A Bomb Hits the Propaganda Ministry” is an extract from The Goebbels Diaries, ed Hugh Trevor-Roper, Seeker & Warburg, 1978
Goldman, Carl, “One Man’s War: An American Airman’s Letter” is an extract from Jewish Youth: Letters from American Soldiers, J. Rontch, 1945
Heydte, Baron von der, “The German Airborne Assault on Crete”, is an extract from Daedalus Returned, Hutchinson, 1958
Hughes, G.E., “One Man’s War: A Normandy Diary”, unpublished diary, Imperial War Museum, London
Johnson “Johnnie”, “A ‘Circus’ Over France”, “Falaise: the Killing Field” are extracts from Wing Leader, Goodall Publications, 1990. Copyright © 1956, 1974, 1990 J.E. Johnson
King, Lionel, “Buzz Bombs on Kent” is an extract from People at War, ed Michael Moynihan, David & Charles, 1974
Knoke, Heinz, “Flying for the Fatherland” is an extract from I Flew for the Fuhrer, Corgi, 1956. Trans John Ewing
Levi, Primo, “Holocaust: Survival in Auschwitz” is an extract from Survival in Auschwitz, Summit Books, 1986. Copyright
© 1986 Summit Books
Lewis, Norman, “Prostitution” is an extract from Naples ’44, Collins, 1978
Mackay, E.M., “Arnhem: At the Bridge” is an extract from Royal Engineers’ Journal, Vol. LXVIII, No. 4
Majdalany, Fred, “Cassino: The End” is an extract from The Monastery, The Bodley Head, 1945. Copyright © 1945 the estate of Fred Majdalany
Malthe-Bruun, Kim, “In Dying We Live” is an extract from Heroic Heart, Random House, 1955.
Maund, M.R., “Swordfish Attack the Italian Fleet” is quoted in Freedom’s Battle, Volume I: The War at Sea 1939–45, ed John Winton, Hutchinson, 1967
Millar, George, “A Resistance Group Blows Up a Train” is an extract from Maquis, Heinemann, 1945
Montgomery, Bernard, “The German Army Surrenders” is an extract from The Memoirs of Field-Marshal The Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, William Collins, Sons & Co. Ltd, 1958. Copyright © 1958 Bernard Law, Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Moorehead, Alan, “D-Day: Embarkation” is an extract from Eclipse, Hamish Hamilton, 1945. Copyright © 1945 Alan Moorehead
Moss, W. Stanley, “Guerilla ambush in Crete, August 1944” is an extract from Ill Met by Moonlight, Harrap, 1950
Mucha, George, “The Fall of Aachen” is an extract from Voices from Britain: Broadcast History 1939–45, ed Hemiing Krabbe, Allen & Unwin, 1947
Munro, Ross, “Raid on Dieppe” is an extract from Gauntlet to Overlord, Macmillan (Canada), 1945
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.)
