1 Cited in Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.), Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945, pp.93–94.
2 Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p.160.
3 Andre Stuchenko, ‘In the Frunze Military Academy’, cited in Seweryn Bialer (ed.), Stalin and his Generals: Soviet Military Memoirs of World War II, pp.81–82.
4 Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, p.24.
5 Ibid., p.99.
6 Biriuzov, ‘In the 30th Red Banner Division’, cited in Seweryn Bialer, op. cit., pp.84–85.
7 Solzhenitsyn, op. cit., p.448.
8 Ibid., p.76.
9 Cited in Vadim Rogovin, Stalin’s Terror of 1937–1938, p.202.
10 Biriuzov, Stalin & His Generals, p.137.
11 Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union G. Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Volume 1, p.172.
12 Ibid.
13 Alexander Werth, Russia at War, p.51.
1 Voroshilov, cited in Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Volume 1, p.177.
2 Ibid., pp.177–78.
3 Ibid., p.178.
4 Stalin, reported by Novyi Mir, Moscow.
5 Halifax & Craster, Speeches on Foreign Policy, p.340.
6 Ibid., p.350.
7 Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p.154.
8 Ibid.
9 Halifax, op. cit., p.351.
10 Solzhenitsyn, op. cit., p.77.
11 Kuznetsov, cited in Eloise Engle and Lauri Paananen, The Winter War: The Russo-Finnish Conflict, 1939–40, p.146.
12 Khrushchev, op. cit., p.157.
13 Engle & Paananen, The Winter War, p.147, quoting N.N. Voronov, Na Sluzhbe Voennoi (Moscow, 1963), pp.157–58.
14 Biriuzov, Stalin & His Generals, p.137.
15 Voronov, ibid., p.133.
16 Biriuzov, ibid., p.137.
1 Pontin, Churchill, pp.524–25, & Gilbert, Churchill: A Life, p.700.
2 Halifax, Speeches on Foreign Policy, p.291.
3 Cited in Hugh Trevor-Roper (ed.), Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945, p.86.
4 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories, p.181.
5 Cited in Colonel Albert Seaton, The German Army 1933–45, p.163.
6 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., pp.93–94.
7 General Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader, p.214.
8 Ibid.
9 Seaton, op. cit., p.163.
10 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., pp.96–97.
11 Manstein, op. cit., p.176.
12 Ibid., p.177.
13 Ibid., p.175.
14 Guderian, op. cit., p.142.
15 Ibid., p.143.
16 Cited in Seaton, op. cit., p.168.
17 Ibid., p.166.
18 Gehlen, The Gehlen Memoirs, p.50.
19 Ibid., p.65.
20 Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives 1939–1945, p.178.
21 Gehlen, p.65.
22 Ibid., p.66.
23 Herling, A World Apart, p.176.
24 Loringhoven, In the Bunker with Hitler, p.29.
1 Mihail Sebastian, Journal 1935–44, p.322.
2 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, Lost Victories, p.206.
3 Sebastian, op. cit., p.350.
4 Ibid., p.359.
5 Ibid., p.364.
6 Ibid., p.369.
7 Herling, op. cit., p.3.
8 Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p.194.
9 Stalin, cited in Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, p.298.
10 Ibid.
11 Ibid., p.315.
12 Stalin, cited in Andrew & Mitrokhin, The Mitrokhin Archive, p.271.
13 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 1, p.258.
14 Churchill, cited in Hough, Winston and Clementine, p.547.
15 Werth, op. cit., p.150.
16 Voronov, Stalin and His Generals, p.207.
17 Herling, op. cit., p.175.
18 Evseev, cited Merridale, Ivan’s War, p.72.
1 Jones, Most Secret War, p.205.
2 Cited in Cradock, Know Your Enemy, p.21.
3 Ibid.
4 Bialer, Stalin & His Generals, p.187.
5 Ibid., p.188.
6 Ibid., p.209.
7 Ibid.
8 Boldin cited in Werth, Russia at War 1941–1945, p.157.
9 Werth, Ibid., p.143.
10 Bialer, Stalin & His Generals, p.208.
11 Ibid., p.240.
1 Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, p.166.
2 Stalin, cited in Montefiore, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, p.362.
3 Khrushchev, op. cit., pp.166–67.
4 Beria, cited in Knight, Beria, Stalin’s First Lieutenant, p.108.
5 Timoshenko and Zhukov, cited in David Glantz, Barbarossa Hitler’s Invasion of Russia 1941, p.242.
6 Mikoyan, cited in Merridale, Ivan’s War, p.88.
7 Bialer, Stalin & His Generals, p.208.
8 Semenyak, BBC Interview cited in Laurence Rees, World War Two Behind Closed Doors, p.91.
9 Gilbert, op. cit., p.701.
10 Ibid.
11 Stewart, His Finest Hours, p.103.
12 Rees, op. cit., p.93.
13 Schroeder, He was My Chief, p.87.
14 Ibid., p.89.
15 Ibid., p.95.
16 Stalin, quoted in Soviet Russia Today, August 1941.
17 Herling, op. cit., p.175.
18 Jonathan Bastable, Voices from Stalingrad, p.16.
19 Stalin, On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, Speeches, Orders of the Day, and Answers to Foreign Press Correspondents, pp.7–8.
1 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p.146.
2 Fedyuninsky, ‘With Zhukov to Leningrad’, cited in Bialer, op. cit., pp.430–31.
3 Georgi K. Zhukov, Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, p.29.
4 Sebastian, Journal 1935–1944, p.369.
5 Manstein, op. cit., pp.206–07.
6 Ibid., p.535.
7 Ibid., p.214.
8 Ibid., p.225.
9 Ibid., p.228.
1 Beloborodov, cited in Axell, Russia’s Heroes, p.145.
2 Account given by General Blumentritt, von Kluge’s chief of staff, to B.H. Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill, p.285.
3 Zhukov, Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, p.59.
4 Kerr, The Russian Army, p.26.
5 Ibid.
6 Ibid.
7 Vasily Grossman, A Writer at War: with the Red Army 1941–1945, p.56.
8 General Heinz Guderian, Panzer Leader, p.256.
9 Stalin, On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, p.11.
10 Stalin, speech 7 November 1941, Ibid., pp.22–23.
11 Kerr, op. cit., p.9.
12 Guderian, op. cit., pp.254–55.
13 Henry, cited in Bastable, Voices from Stalingrad, p.20.
14 Edelman, cited in Andrew Nagorski, The Greatest Battle: The Fight for Moscow 1941–42, p.240.
15 Guderian, op. cit., p.248.
16 Ibid.
17 Ibid., p.252.
18 Zhukov, op. cit., p.74.
19 Zhukov cited in Colonel Albert Seaton, The Battle for Moscow, p.188, from G.K. Zhukov, Vospominaniya I Razmyshleniya (London: 1969), pp.373–74.
20 Blumentritt, cited in Liddell Hart, op. cit., p.286.
21 Ibid., p.287.
22 Anonymous, cited in Alan Clark, Barbarossa The Russian–German Conflict – 1945, p.173, quoting Colonel E. Leyderrey, The German Defeat in the East (Her Majesty’s War Office 1952), p.47.
23 Zhukov, op. cit., p.83.
24 Grossman, op. cit., p.63.
25 Hofmann, ‘The Battle for Moscow 1941’, cited in H.A. Jacobsen & J. Rohwer (eds), Decisive Battles of World War II.
26 Zhukov, ‘First Victory’, cited in Bialer, op. cit., p.335.
27 Zhukov, op. cit., p.103.
28 Herling, op. cit., p.178.
29 Stalin, cited in Rodric Braithwaite, Moscow 1941: A City and its People at War, p.324, quoting G. Zhukov, Vospominaniya I Razmyshleniya, Vol. 2, (Moscow: 2002), pp.42–43.
1 Ciano, cited in William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p.910, quoting Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries, 1939–1943, (New York 1946), pp.442–43.
2 Loringhoven, In the Bunker with Hitler, p.109.
3 Shirer, op. cit., p.910.
4 Ibid., p.915.
5 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p.178.
6 Ibid., pp.178–79.
7 Khrushchev, op. cit., pp.186–87.
8 Ibid., p.188.
9 Manstein, op. cit., p.240.
10 Merridale, op. cit., p.131.
11 Schroeder, op. cit., pp.111–12.
12 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 2, p.78.
13 Ibid., p.79.
14 Shirer, op. cit., p.909, quoting Paulus’ testimony at Nuremberg, Hitler made this comment on 1 June 1942, almost a month before the German Summer Offensive started.
15 Kleist, cited in Bastable, op. cit., p.26.
16 Khrushchev, op. cit., p.193.
17 Ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Golikov, cited in Craig, Enemy at the Gates, p.81.
20 Khrushchev, op. cit., p.193.
21 Simonov, cited in Beevor, Stalingrad, p.127.
22 Kerr, The Russian Army, p.111.
23 Chuikov, cited in Axell, Russia’s Heroes, p.172.
24 Kerr, op. cit., p.112.
25 Khrushchev, op. cit., p.190.
1 Shirer, op. cit., p.917.
2 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p.182.
3 Liddell Hart, op. cit., pp.308–99.
4 Shirer, op. cit., p.915.
5 Ibid.
6 Manstein, op. cit., 293.
7 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.199.
8 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 2, p.111.
9 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.199.
10 Shirer, op. cit., p.919.
11 Bastable, op. cit., p.144.
12 Stalin, On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, p.48.
13 Gehlen, op. cit., p.70.
14 Anonymous, cited in Zhukov, op. cit., pp.124–25.
15 Bastable, op. cit., p.154.
16 Kerr, The Secret of Stalingrad, pp.212–13.
17 Anonymous, cited in Zhukov, op. cit., p.125.
18 Bastable, op. cit., p.172.
19 Zhukov, op. cit., p.122.
20 Bastable, op. cit., p.173.
21 Ibid., p.158.
22 Ibid., p.162.
23 Gehlen, op. cit., p.74.
24 Kerr, The Secret of Stalingrad, p.219.
25 Paulus to Hitler, cited in Heinrich Graf von Einsiedel, The Onslaught: The German Drive to Stalingrad, p.184.
26 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.226.
1 Manstein, op. cit., p.350.
2 Ibid., p.329.
3 Colonel Helmut Ritgen, The 6th Panzer Division 1937–45, p.28.
4 Shirer, op. cit., p.927.
5 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.233.
6 Ritgen, op. cit., p.33.
7 Bastable, op. cit., pp.202–03.
8 Kerr, The Russian Army, p.119.
9 Guderian, op. cit., p.275.
10 Shirer, op. cit., p.929.
11 Bastable, op. cit., p.225.
12 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.250.
13 Cited in Peter Abbott and Nigel Thomas, Germany’s Eastern Front Allies 1941–45, p.4.
14 Loringhoven, In the Bunker with Hitler, p.36.
15 Ibid., p.38.
16 Don HQ Daily Bulletin, cited in Bastable, op. cit., p.247.
17 Ibid., p.248.
18 Stalin, op. cit., p.49.
19 Paulus, Bastable, p.28
20 Stalin, op. cit., p.50.
21 Sebastian, op. cit., p.542.
22 Walter Kerr, The Secret of Stalingrad, p.242.
23 Werth, op. cit., p.500.
24 Drebber, cited in Kerr, The Russian Army, p.126.
25 Zhukov, op. cit., pp.142–43.
26 Schroeder, op. cit., p.105.
1 Manstein, op. cit., p.436.
2 Zhukov, op. cit., p.147.
3 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.253.
4 Guderian, op. cit., p.307.
5 Liddell Hart, op. cit., p.321.
6 Zhukov, op. cit., p.152.
7 Ibid., p.176.
8 Gehlen, op. cit., p.82.
9 Ibid., p.83.
10 Ibid., pp.84–85.
1 Zhukov, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.182.
2 Grossman, op. cit., p.238.
3 Zhukov, Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, p.236–7.
4 Bergström, Kursk – The Air Battle: July 1943, p.109.
5 Ritgen, op. cit., p.35.
6 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.277.
7 Stalin, op. cit., p.64.
8 Shtemenko, ‘Rituals of Victory,’ cited in Bialer, op. cit., p.360.
9 Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier, pp.209 & 229.
10 Ibid., p.228.
11 Shtemenko, in Bialer, op. cit., p.363.
12 Guderian, in Bergström, op. cit., p.121.
13 Gehlen, op. cit., p.86.
14 Zhukov, Marshal Zhukov’s Greatest Battles, p.256.
15 Stalin, op. cit., p.78.
1 Werth, Russia at War, p.751.
2 Ibid., p.752.
3 Ibid., p.753.
4 Shtemenko, The Soviet General Staff at War 1942–1945, p.317.
5 Belov, cited in Merridale, Ivan’s War, p.238.
6 Army Group Centre, cited in Lieutenant General Gerd Niepold, Battle for White Russia: The Destruction of Army Group Centre June 1944, p.23.
7 Jordan, cited in Ian Baxter, Operation Bagration: The Destruction of Army Group Centre June–July 1944, p.4.
8 Ibid.
9 Ibid.
10 Busch, cited in Paul Carell, Scorched Earth: The Russian–German War, 1943–1944, p.581.
11 Basil Liddell Hart, History of the Second World War, p.580.
12 Sebastian, op. cit., p.601.
13 Drescher, cited in Paul Adair, Hitler’s Greatest Defeat, p.153.
14 Guderian, op. cit., p.341.
1 George Bruce, The Warsaw Rising, p.172.
2 Stalin, Ibid., p.62.
3 Soviet government statement, ibid., p.63.
4 Davies, op. cit., p.165.
5 Zhukov, op. cit., Vol. 2, p.301.
6 Bruce, op. cit., p.183
1 Shirer, op. cit., p.850.
2 Cited in Alan Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, p.649.
3 Sebastian, op. cit., p.527.
4 Bastable, op. cit., p.173.
5 German staff officer, ibid., p.153.
6 German staff officer, ibid., p.155.
7 Manstein, op. cit., p.535.
8 Ibid.
9 Sebastian, op. cit., p.589.
10 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.117.
11 Guderian, op. cit., p.367.
12 Ibid.
13 Ibid., p.607.
14 Ibid.
15 Ibid., p.608.
16 Ibid., pp.609–10.
17 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.118.
18 Hindy, cited in Ungváry, Battle for Budapest, p.71.
1 Guderian, op. cit., p.382.
2 Ibid., pp.382–83.
3 Cited in G.M. Gilbert, Nuremberg Diary, p.157.
4 Schroeder, op. cit., p.174.
5 Guderian, op. cit., p.443.
6 Guderian’s interrogation by the US 7th Army, cited in Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe, p.622.
7 Cited in Shirer, op. cit., p.1108, from Boldt’s own book In the Shelter with Hitler, published in London in 1948.
8 Guderian, op. cit., p.389.
9 Dittmar in Liddell Hart, op. cit., p.328.
10 Steiger cited in Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS 1943–45, pp.226–27.
11 Ibid., p.230.
12 Ibid.
13 Pfeffer-Wildenbruch in Ungváry, op. cit., p.145.
14 Lehoczky, in Ungváry, op. cit., p.152.
15 Sulyánsky in Ungváry, op. cit., p.154.
16 Dietrich, cited in Charles Messenger, Hitler’s Gladiator: The Life and Times of Oberstgruppenführer and Panzergeneral-Oberst der Waffen-SS Sepp Dietrich, pp.166–67.
17 Ibid., p.170.
1 Trevor-Roper, Hitler’s War Directives, pp.290–91.
2 Sajer, The Forgotten Soldier, p.475.
3 Hax, cited in Georg Gunter, Last Laurels: The German defence of Upper Silesia January–May 1945, p.186.
4 Guderian, op. cit., p.418.
5 Ibid.
6 Gehlen, op. cit., p.122.
7 Lasch, cited in Denny, The Fall of Hitler’s Fortress City, p.225.
8 Ibid., p.227.
9 Gehlen, op. cit., p.17.
10 Ibid., p.125.
11 Hitler in Trevor-Roper, op. cit., p.300.
12 Reymann, cited in Cornelius Ryan, The Last Battle, p.298.
13 Kinzel, ibid., p.176.
14 Kempka, I was Hitler’s Chauffeur, p.60.
15 Cited in Ryan, op. cit., p.287.
16 Weidling, cited in Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 2, p.365.
17 Popiel, cited in Ryan, op. cit., p.306,
18 Ibid.
19 Grossman, op. cit., p.334,
20 Reymann, cited in Ryan, op. cit., p.314,
21 Ibid.
1 Schroeder, op. cit., p.176.
2 Ibid., p.179.
3 Zhukov, ‘On the Berlin Axis’, cited in Bialer, op. cit., p.507 & Zhukov, Greatest Battles, p.286.
4 Zhukov, Greatest Battles, p.286.
5 Kempka, op. cit., p.58.
6 Lucas, Hitler’s Commanders, p.199.
7 Reitlinger, The SS Alibi of a Nation 1922–1945, p.433, citing Steiner’s interrogation in Georges Blond’s L’agonie de l’Allemagne, Paris, 1952, p.287.
8 Ryan, op. cit., p.374.
9 Fest, Inside Hitler’s Bunker, pp.67–68.
10 Ryan, op. cit., p.351.
11 Fest, op. cit., p.68.
12 Loringhoven, In the Bunker with Hitler, p.152.
13 Konev, ‘Strike from the South’, cited in Bialer, op. cit., p.528.
14 Grossman, op. cit., p.338.
15 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.167.
16 Ibid., p.153.
17 Keitel, cited in Bullock, Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, p.790.
18 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.168.
19 German Radio, ibid., p.168.
20 Propaganda Ministry, Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler, p.197.
21 Toland, Adolf Hitler, p.876.
22 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.168.
23 Ryan, op. cit., p.404.
24 Bialer, op. cit., p.532.
25 Ryan, op. cit., p.313.
26 Stalin, cited in Ryan, p.390, from Milovan Djilas, Conversations with Stalin (London 1962).
27 O’Donnell, The Berlin Bunker, p.145.
28 Hitler, in McKay, The Lost World of Bletchley Park, p.145.
29 Grossman, op. cit., p.338.
30 Montgomery, The Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery, p.335.
31 Warren, cited in Hamilton, Monty: The Field Marshal 1944–1976, p.501.
32 Thompson, ibid., p.511.
33 Montgomery, ibid., p.524.
34 de Guingand, Operation Victory, p.456.
35 Montgomery, The Memoirs, p.340.
36 Zhukov, Greatest Battles, p.290.
37 Lucas, Last Days of the Reich, p.245.
38 Stalin’s Victory Address, 9 May 1945.
1 Khrushchev, op. cit., p.182.
2 Gehlen, op. cit., p.96.
3 Loringhoven, op. cit., p.39.
4 Gehlen, op. cit., p.101.
5 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 1, p.159.
6 Ibid., p.172.
7 Solzhenitsyn, op. cit., p.84.
8 Werth, Russia at War, p.753.
9 Solzhenitsyn, op. cit., p.84.
10 Montgomery, The Memoirs, p.356.
11 Ibid., pp.381–82.
12 Gehlen, op. cit., p.106.
13 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 2, p.411.
14 Solzhenitsyn, op. cit., p.85.
15 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 1, p.164.
1 de Guingand, op. cit., p.461.
2 Guderian, op. cit., p.275.
3 Loringhoven, op. cit., pp.110–11.
4 Zhukov, Reminiscences and Reflections, Vol. 1, p.274.
5 Mellenthin, op. cit., p.365.
6 Ibid., p.366.
7 Kleist, cited in Liddell Hart, The Other Side of the Hill, p.329.
8 Liddell Hart, paraphrasing General Kleist, ibid., p.331.
9 von Senger, ibid., pp.332–33.
10 Blumentritt, ibid., p.338.
11 Stalin, On the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, p.53.