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The voice of war: the Second World War told by those who fought it

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Main Authors:	Owen, James (Author), Waters, Guy Prentiss 1975- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London Penguin 2005
Subjects:	Geschichte World War, 1939-1945 / Personal narratives Weltkrieg (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives Zweiter Weltkrieg Anthologie Erlebnisbericht
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:	Originally published: London: Viking, 2004 Includes bibliographical references
Physical Description:	XX, 628 S. Ill., Kt. 20 cm
ISBN:	9780141012674 0141012676

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adam_text	Contents Maps xv Preface xix Summer 1939 Hitler: There will be no war — Leonard Mosley 1 Preparing for war in France — D. Barione 2 Autumn 1939 The invasion of Poland — Wilhelm Prüller 7 An intellectual opposes the Nazis — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen 10 The view from Westminster — Henry Channon 11 The first siren - Winston Churchill 15 Tending the wounded in Warsaw -Jadwiga Sosnkowska 16 A wave of despair — Harold Nicolson 17 Sinking the Royal Oak — Günther Prien 19 In which we serve — Noël Coward 20 The aniseed ball bomb — Stuart Macrae 21 Plutarch and the Maginot Line - George Beardmore 23 Winter 1939-40 Helsinki bombed - Sven Auren 25 Attacking the GrafSpee - Richard Washbourn 27 Spring 1940 Fighter over Finland — Eino Luukkanen 30 Churchill becomes Prime Minister — Winston Churchill 32 A civilian at war — George Beardmore 34 Blood, toil, tears, and sweat - Winston Churchill 35 Blitzkrieg - Erwin Rommel 3 б Fleeing from Holland - L. de Jong 3 8 The French in retreat — D. Barione 40 The evacuation from Dunkirk — A. Gwynn-Browne 42 The Little Ships - Charles Lightoller 45 Mussolini threatens war — Galeazzo Ciano 46 Shot down over France — Paul Richey 46 Undesirable alien - Arthur Koestler 49 vi Contents Summer 1940 We shall fight them on the beaches - Winston Churchill 52 Italy enters the war — Galeazzo Ciano 52 The occupation of Paris - Demaree Bess 53 News of a pay rise and an invasion — George Beardmore 55 De Gaulle leaves France - Edward Spears 55 This was their finest hour - Winston Churchill 57 A railway carriage in the woods - William Shirer 57 France is part of me - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry бо The threat of invasion - Alexander Cadogan 61 Jersey occupied — Alexander Coutanche . °2 Rationing — Theodora FitzGibbon 3 Target practice with the Prime Minister -John Colville 65 The Battle of Britain - Richard Hillary 65 Under bombardment-Richard Hillary бб Arguing with Goering - Adolf Galland °° Shot down in flames - Geoffrey Page Page 69 The war in the desert - Alan Moorehead 71 Autumn 1940 Death of a Spitfire - Richard Hillary 73 The start of the Blitz - Theodora FitzGibbon 75 Red sky at night - George Beardmore 77 Invasion expected at any moment - Harold Nicolson 79 What Britain is fighting for - Ed Murrow 79 Downing Street is bombed - Winston Churchill . 8° A premonition - Richard Hillary 8I Bovril — and thoughts of escape — Fritz Wentzel °2 Meeting Orde Wingate - Hermione Ranfurly 85 Winter 1940-41 The Italian weakness - Alan Moorehead 86 The aftermath of Sidi Barrani - Alan Moorehead 87 The Long Range Desert Group - Bill Kennedy-Shaw 8 8 Enduring the Blitz - Theodora FitzGibbon 9° Sheltering in the Underground-Ernie Pyle 93 A shattered house - Andrew Butler 94 The war in East Africa - Peter Cochrane 9^ Greek fire - Mikia Pezas 9<> Contents vii Spring 1941 Countering the U-boats — Donald Macintyre 99 The Battle of Cape Matapan — Andrew Cunningham. 102 Selecting agents for SOE - Maurice Buckmaster 104 Inkerman Barracks, Woking — Michael Nelson 107 Mr Fleming s wife — Andrew Butler 108 Flames over Westminster —John Colville 109 The invasion of Crete - Friedrich-August von der Heydte 11 o Parachutes and bayonets - A. W. D. Nicholls 112 Strafed - Theodore Stephanides 112 Victory on Crete - Martin Pöppel 113 The sinking of the Hood — Geoffrey Bro oke 11 5 Aboard the Bismarck - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 118 Swordfìsh attack the Bismarck — Gerard Woods 119 The Bismarck fights back - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 120 The sinking of the Bismarck - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 121 On leave - Michael Nelson 122 Rommel in North Africa - Heinz Werner Schmidt 123 Summer 1941 The invasion of Russia —Josef Goebbels 126 Operation Barbarossa — Heknut Pabst 127 Over Russia — Heinz Knoke 130 The rape of a Russian teacher — Genia Demianova 131 Three kills and shot down twice in a day - Adolf Galland 135 Wing Leader — Johnnie Johnson 13 7 A conversation with Douglas Bader - Adolf Galland 140 The Colonel s foxhounds -John Masters 141 With General Slim —John Masters 142 The attractions of command — William Slim 143 In Syria —John Verney 144 Signing the armistice at Acre - Alan Moorehead 145 Life in Berlin - Catherine Klein 146 The Final Solution - Rudolf Hoess 148 Autumn 1941 Fires were started - William Šansom 151 The West End at war - Charles Ritchie 154 Stuck in the mud of Odessa - Peter Bamm 15 5 The Battle of Sidi Rezegh - Alan Moorehead 156 viii Contents The German attack - Heinz Werner Schmidt 157 Jock Campbell s charge - Robert Crisp ι 6° Brewed up - Cyril Joly іб2 The mysteries of the English class structure - William Slim 164 The nature of the Red Army - William Slim * 65 Winter 1941-2 Leading the attack on Pearl Harbor - Mitsuo Fuchida i56 Witnessing the onslaught - Clarence E. Dickinson Ї71 On Battleship Row — George Phraner I73 The worst blow of the war - Winston Churchill 74 Japan s attack on the Philippines - Allison Ind 76 The capture of Malaya by bicycle - Masanobu Tsuji 79 The looting of Kuala Lumpur - Ian Morrison x 82 Ambushed by the Japanese - Russell Braddon : 82 The fall of Singapore - Alfred Allbury l85 Rice Balls - Russell Braddon * 87 The reality of the Russian Front - Henry Metelmann * 8 8 Battlefield surgeon - Peter Bamm * 9° The siege of Leningrad — Vera Inber I9I On bombing strategy — Arthur Harris I93 On Hermann Goering — Galeazzo Ciano 95 Drinking whisky with Rommel - George Millar W Escape from Colditz - Airey Neave ^ Spring 1942 I shall return - Douglas MacArthur 30° The Bataan Death March - Gene Dale, John Morrett and Bert Schwarz 2°4 The retreat from Burma - William Sum 2O<5 A dying British soldier - Misao Sato 207 A fight to the death - Michael Calvert 2°8 The jungle is neutral - Spencer Chapman 3I0 The attack on St Nazaire - Robert Ryder 2I0 May God help me in my task - Alan Brooke 2I3 The assassination of Heydrich - František Moravec 2I4 Malta besieged - Sybil Dobbie 2I7 Depth-charged - Wolfgang Hirschfeld 2I9 The enemy within - Harold Harris 2Z2 Cracks in the Axis - Galeazzo Ciano 223 The Battle of the Coral Sea - Stanley Johnston 22$ Contents ix A foxhole in North Africa - Heinz Werner Schmidt 228 The first 1 ,000-bomber raid — Arthur Harris 230 In the Warsaw Ghetto — Abraham. Lewin 231 Summer 1942 The Battle of Midway — Clarence E. Dickinson 235 Witnessing the onslaught — Mitsuo Fuchida 23 8 Driving with the President — Winston Churchill 240 The breakout from Bir Hakeim — Susan Travers 240 The taking of Tobruk — Heinz Werner Schmidt 243 Panic in Cairo - Alan Moorehead 246 Assuming command - Bernard Montgomery 247 The Australians in North Africa - Alan Moorehead 248 The wooden wonder — Don Bennett 249 Flying fighters for Russia - Tamara Pamyatnykh 250 Meeting Stalin — Winston Churchill 252 The soft belly of the crocodile - Winston Churchill 253 A box of apples — Henry Metelmann 254 An extermination at Belzec — Kurt Gerstein 256 The Dieppe raid - Ross Munro 259 Autumn 1942 At Guadalcanal - Herbert С Merillat 262 The fight for Henderson Field - Mitchell Paige 264 Blueberry pie —John Hersey 267 Planning for El Alamein - Bernard Montgomery 268 An infantry officer at Alamein - H. P. Samwell 270 Waiting for the medic — H. P. Samwell 272 The knockout punch — Bernard Montgomery 274 Retreat in the desert — Heinz Werner Schmidt 274 Blowing the Gorgopotamos bridge — Denys Hamson 277 Winter 1942-3 In the streets of Stalingrad - Anton K. Dragan 279 Encircled-Joachim Wieder 281 The German retreat -Joachim Wieder 284 The pride of the captured generals - Vasili Chuikov 285 A Jew story - Christabel Bielenberg 286 The oldest profession - Adrian Vincent 290 The mine - Keith Douglas . 292 Close combat in Tunisia - Fred H. Salter 295 x Contents The stillness of the dead - Alan Moorehead 297 The Cretan runner - George Psychoundakis 298 Heavy water - Knut Haukelid 299 On de Gaulle - Winston Churchill З02 Spring 1943 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising - Simha Rotem 304 It s so hard to die - Alexander Donat Зоб A parachute drop goes wrong - Oluf Olsen 3 10 Hitching a lift with the enemy - Oluf Olsen 3ιτ On Longstop Hill - Alan Moorehead 3 ! 3 The fall of Tunis - Alan Moorehead 3 Η The turn of the tide -Ernie Pyle 318 Dealing with the Americans - Alan Brooke 319 The Dambusters - Guy Gibson 3 20 Lunch with Guy Gibson - David Niven 335 Arrival at Auschwitz - Kitty Hart 325 Summer 1943 A raid on Tito s headquarters - Vladimir Dedijer 329 Death of a partisan — Vladimir Dedijer 33° The invasion of Sicily - Douglas Grant ЗЗ2 They ask for cigarettes - George Patton 333 A final prayer-Ernie Pyle 335 Besieged in Leningrad- Vera Inber 335 You are the most hated man in Italy - Benito Mussolini 337 Rome hears of Mussolini s fall - M. DeWyss 3 3 8 Escape or die- André Devigny 341 The meaning of freedom — André Devigny 343 Beri beri- Russell Braddon 345 The raid on Regensburg - Beirne Lay 3 47 Aircraft carriers of ice - Alan Brooke 3 5 г Autumn 1943 The Italian armistice - Iris Origo 353 With the Americans at Anzio -Jack Belden 3 54 Landing at Paestum - Norman Lewis 356 The German counter-attack - Alan Moorehead and Lt Rocholl 357 The rescue of Mussolini - Otto Skorzeny 3 5 8 Naples rises - Sophia Loren 3 бо A decline in the cat population - Norman Lewis 362 Contents xi The butterfly collector - Eric Newby 3 62 The Grand Tour - Mark Clark 365 Wounded in Italy — Richard Tregaskis 366 Midget submarines against the Tirpitz — Godfrey Place 368 Enduring the Russian Front — Heknut Pabst 370 The legacy of Hippocrates — Peter Bamm 3 72 The death of Butch O Hare - Alvin Kernan 374 Madame Chiang — Alan Brooke 376 The Tehran Conference - Alan Brooke 377 Caught between Churchill and Stalin - Elliott Roosevelt 378 Winter 1943-4 Crossing the lines in Italy —John Verney 381 Building morale in Burma - William Slim 384 A photograph of General Kawabe — William Slim 385 Defying the Boche in Belgium — Anne Brusselmans 386 An interview with the Prime Minister — Fitzroy Maclean 3 87 The destruction of the Scharnhorst - B. B. Ramsden 388 Absent friends in the US AAF - John Comer 391 The Anzio Derby - F. C. M. Reeves 393 Planning for D-Day — Bernard Montgomery 3 94 With the Marines on New Guinea — Warner Pyne 395 The Forgotten Army —John Masters 396 The massacre in the Admin Box — Geoffrey Evans 398 The cap — Roman Frister 400 Spring 1Џ44 The burden of command — William Slim 404 With the Chindits - Richard Rhodes James 406 In the Deep —John Masters 408 Retreat from Kohima — Manabu Wada 410 The straggle for Monte Cassino - E. D. Birdie Smith 412 The coward - Fred Salter 414 The taking of Cassino — Fred Majdalany 416 An argument with Goering - Adolf Galland 417 In the skies over Germany - Heinz Knoke 418 Vengeance - Lindsay Rogers 420 The Life That I Have - Leo Marks 421 Kidnapping General Kreipe - Bill Stanley Moss 423 Scabies and babies - Ross Carter 427 The Montgomery touch - Alan Moorehead 429 xii Contents Summer 1944 D-Day - Dwight Eisenhower 43° The bridge at Troam - Rosie Rosevere 433 Waiting for orders - Hans von Luck 434 Parachuting into Normandy - David K. Webster 43 6 Landing on Omaha - J. Robert Slaughter 439 On Sword Beach - Patrick Porteous 442 Attacked by a flame-thrower -Joseph Haeger 443 Still no orders came - Hans von Luck 444 The end of our neighbour - Raymond Paris 44 Tending the casualties - Naina Beaven 447 Rome Ms - Mark Clark 44« Death in the afternoon - Stuart Hood 45° Kissing Botticelli s Venus - Eric Linklater 453 The legacy of war - Iris Origo 455 Arrested by the Gestapo - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade 45^ Escape — Marie-Madeleine Fourcade 459 The July bomb plot - Nicolaus von Below 4^2 Hitler is dead! - Marie Vassiltchikov 4б4 Retreat in the East - Guy Sajer 467 The evacuation of the Chindits -John Masters 471 Hungover on Guam - William Manchester 471 The buzz bomb —James Lees-Mime 474 Tank warfare in the bocage — Ken Tout 475 Tank-busting - Raymond Lallemant 478 The Polish Home Army rises - Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski 481 Paris liberated - Robert Capa 48 5 The Ritz is still the Ritz - Peter Carrington 486 Autumn 1944 The assault on Peleliu - Eugene Sledge 489 Exasperated with Churchill - Alan Brooke 49 l Trapped in Arnhem - Robert Urquhart 492 On Arnhem Bridge -John Frost 495 The Holocaust - Hermione Ranfurly 497 Disposing of the bodies at Auschwitz - Art Spiegelman 498 The Gothic Line - Martha Gellhorn 499 Irregular warfare in Albania -Julian Amery S00 A deal with Stalin - Winston Churchill 5°3 The liberation of Athens ~ Hennione Ranfurly 5°4 Contents xiii The death of Rommel - Manfred Rommel 506 Return to the Philippines - Douglas MacArthur 509 Willie Mullins gets a letter - Ross Carter 512 They re regular Penelopes, Limey! — Ross Carter 514 Difficulties in France - Alan Brooke 514 Winter 1944-5 So perish all Czech traitors - Radomír Luza 516 The Battle of the Bulge - Donald R. Burgett 518 A prisoner s fate — Charles Macdonald 521 Last days at Auschwitz - Primo Levi 523 The Yalta Conference - Andrei Gromyko 525 Disobedience on the Eastern Front - Armin Scheiderbauer 528 A flying court-martial - Hans von Luck 530 Tank commander - Evgeni Bessonov 532 Across the Irrawaddy - William Slim 533 Your sword is shining - Kazuo Imai 535 On Iwo Jima - US Marine Corps Correspondents 537 Kamikaze — Tadashi Nakajima 540 The bombing of Dresden - Victor Klemperer 541 The hazards of war - Pierre Clostermann 544 Spring 1945 The sinking of the Yamato - Yoshida Mitsuru 547 Surviving a kamikaze attack - Geoffrey Brooke 549 Okinawa — Eugene Sledge 551 The slaughter of an innocent - George Lince 553 I am remembering the first man I slew — William Manchester 554 Into the Reich - Charles B. Macdonald 555 A birth in the rubble — Guy Sajer 560 At Belsen - Alan Moorehead 562 Mussolini s execution - Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle and Urbano Lazzaro 567 Ignominy and revenge — Philip Hamburger 568 Berlin encircled - Evgeni Bessonov 569 We retreated and retreated - Ulf Ollech 571 The spoils of war - Claus Fuhrmann 573 A last meeting with Hitler - Albert Speer 575 Götterdämmerung - Traudì Junge 577 Churchill hears of Hitler s death -John Colville 579 The Gemían surrender - Bernard Montgomery 580 xiv Contents VE Day in London - Mollie Panter-Downes 581 Summer 1945 The horror of Okinawa -KoeiKinjo 5^5 A murder in the caves - Toyo Gima 5^5 On Hill 69 - Eugene Sledge 586 In a Harrow Weald teashop - George Beardmore 58& The Potsdam Conference - Andrei Gromyko 588 Truman tells Stalin of the atomic bomb - Winston Churchill 59° The new masters - Tom Pocock 59 Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 - Michihiko Hachiya 593 The biggest thing since Christ came - Hermione Ranfurly 596 A Japanese prisoner of war is freed - Russell Braddon 597 A prisoner of the Allies - Yuji Aida 599 Autumn 1945 and beyond The Japanese surrender — Toshikazu Kase 601 The end of the war -William Slim Ó03 Serving the indictment on Goering - Airey Neave 605 The atrocity film is shown at Nuremberg - Gustav Gilbert 608 The executions of the Nazi leaders - Kingsbury Smith 610 A soldier comes home - Dirk Bogarde 617 Acknowledgements 621
adam_txt	Contents Maps xv Preface xix Summer 1939 Hitler: 'There will be no war' — Leonard Mosley 1 Preparing for war in France — D. Barione 2 Autumn 1939 The invasion of Poland — Wilhelm Prüller 7 An intellectual opposes the Nazis — Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen 10 The view from Westminster — Henry Channon 11 The first siren - Winston Churchill 15 Tending the wounded in Warsaw -Jadwiga Sosnkowska 16 'A wave of despair' — Harold Nicolson 17 Sinking the Royal Oak — Günther Prien 19 In which we serve — Noël Coward 20 The aniseed ball bomb — Stuart Macrae 21 Plutarch and the Maginot Line - George Beardmore 23 Winter 1939-40 Helsinki bombed - Sven Auren 25 Attacking the GrafSpee - Richard Washbourn 27 Spring 1940 Fighter over Finland — Eino Luukkanen 30 Churchill becomes Prime Minister — Winston Churchill 32 A civilian at war — George Beardmore 34 'Blood, toil, tears, and sweat' - Winston Churchill 35 Blitzkrieg - Erwin Rommel 3 б Fleeing from Holland - L. de Jong 3 8 The French in retreat — D. Barione 40 The evacuation from Dunkirk — A. Gwynn-Browne 42 The 'Little Ships' - Charles Lightoller 45 Mussolini threatens war — Galeazzo Ciano 46 Shot down over France — Paul Richey 46 Undesirable alien - Arthur Koestler 49 vi Contents Summer 1940 'We shall fight them on the beaches' - Winston Churchill 52 Italy enters the war — Galeazzo Ciano 52 The occupation of Paris - Demaree Bess 53 News of a pay rise and an invasion — George Beardmore 55 De Gaulle leaves France - Edward Spears 55 'This was their finest hour' - Winston Churchill 57 A railway carriage in the woods - William Shirer 57 'France is part of me' - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry бо The threat of invasion - Alexander Cadogan 61 Jersey occupied — Alexander Coutanche . °2 Rationing — Theodora FitzGibbon "3 Target practice with the Prime Minister -John Colville 65 The Battle of Britain - Richard Hillary 65 Under bombardment-Richard Hillary бб Arguing with Goering - Adolf Galland °° 'Shot down in flames' - Geoffrey Page Page 69 The war in the desert - Alan Moorehead 71 Autumn 1940 Death of a Spitfire - Richard Hillary 73 The start of the Blitz - Theodora FitzGibbon 75 Red sky at night - George Beardmore 77 Invasion expected at any moment - Harold Nicolson 79 " What Britain is fighting for - Ed Murrow 79 Downing Street is bombed - Winston Churchill . 8° A premonition - Richard Hillary 8I Bovril — and thoughts of escape — Fritz Wentzel °2 Meeting Orde Wingate - Hermione Ranfurly 85 Winter 1940-41 The Italian weakness - Alan Moorehead 86 The aftermath of Sidi Barrani - Alan Moorehead 87 The Long Range Desert Group - Bill Kennedy-Shaw 8 8 Enduring the Blitz - Theodora FitzGibbon 9° Sheltering in the Underground-Ernie Pyle 93 A shattered house - Andrew Butler 94 The war in East Africa - Peter Cochrane 9^ Greek fire - Mikia Pezas 9<> Contents vii Spring 1941 Countering the U-boats — Donald Macintyre 99 The Battle of Cape Matapan — Andrew Cunningham. 102 Selecting agents for SOE - Maurice Buckmaster 104 Inkerman Barracks, Woking — Michael Nelson 107 Mr Fleming's wife — Andrew Butler 108 Flames over Westminster —John Colville 109 The invasion of Crete - Friedrich-August von der Heydte 11 o Parachutes and bayonets - A. W. D. Nicholls 112 Strafed - Theodore Stephanides 112 Victory on Crete - Martin Pöppel 113 The sinking of the Hood — Geoffrey Bro oke 11 5 Aboard the Bismarck - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 118 Swordfìsh attack the Bismarck — Gerard Woods 119 The Bismarck fights back - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 120 The sinking of the Bismarck - Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg 121 On leave - Michael Nelson 122 Rommel in North Africa - Heinz Werner Schmidt 123 Summer 1941 The invasion of Russia —Josef Goebbels 126 Operation Barbarossa — Heknut Pabst 127 Over Russia — Heinz Knoke 130 The rape of a Russian teacher — Genia Demianova 131 Three kills and shot down twice in a day - Adolf Galland 135 Wing Leader — Johnnie Johnson 13 7 A conversation with Douglas Bader - Adolf Galland 140 The Colonel's foxhounds -John Masters 141 With General Slim —John Masters 142 The attractions of command — William Slim 143 In Syria —John Verney 144 Signing the armistice at Acre - Alan Moorehead 145 Life in Berlin - Catherine Klein 146 The Final Solution - Rudolf Hoess 148 Autumn 1941 Fires were started - William Šansom 151 The West End at war - Charles Ritchie 154 Stuck in the mud of Odessa - Peter Bamm 15 5 The Battle of Sidi Rezegh - Alan Moorehead 156 viii Contents The German attack - Heinz Werner Schmidt 157 Jock Campbell's charge - Robert Crisp ι 6° Brewed up - Cyril Joly іб2 The mysteries of the English class structure - William Slim 164 The nature of the Red Army - William Slim * 65 Winter 1941-2 Leading the attack on Pearl Harbor - Mitsuo Fuchida i56 Witnessing the onslaught - Clarence E. Dickinson Ї71 On Battleship Row — George Phraner I73 'The worst blow of the war' - Winston Churchill 74 Japan's attack on the Philippines - Allison Ind 76 The capture of Malaya by bicycle - Masanobu Tsuji 79 The looting of Kuala Lumpur - Ian Morrison x 82 Ambushed by the Japanese - Russell Braddon : 82 The fall of Singapore - Alfred Allbury l85 Rice Balls - Russell Braddon * 87 The reality of the Russian Front - Henry Metelmann * 8 8 Battlefield surgeon - Peter Bamm * 9° The siege of Leningrad — Vera Inber I9I On bombing strategy — Arthur Harris I93 On Hermann Goering — Galeazzo Ciano 95 Drinking whisky with Rommel - George Millar W Escape from Colditz - Airey Neave ^ Spring 1942 'I shall return' - Douglas MacArthur 30° The Bataan Death March - Gene Dale, John Morrett and Bert Schwarz 2°4 The retreat from Burma - William Sum 2O<5 A dying British soldier - Misao Sato 207 A fight to the death - Michael Calvert 2°8 The jungle is neutral - Spencer Chapman 3I0 The attack on St Nazaire - Robert Ryder 2I0 'May God help me in my task' - Alan Brooke 2I3 The assassination of Heydrich - František Moravec 2I4 Malta besieged - Sybil Dobbie 2I7 Depth-charged - Wolfgang Hirschfeld 2I9 The enemy within - Harold Harris 2Z2 Cracks in the Axis - Galeazzo Ciano 223 The Battle of the Coral Sea - Stanley Johnston 22$ Contents ix A foxhole in North Africa - Heinz Werner Schmidt 228 The first 1 ,000-bomber raid — Arthur Harris 230 In the Warsaw Ghetto — Abraham. Lewin 231 Summer 1942 The Battle of Midway — Clarence E. Dickinson 235 Witnessing the onslaught — Mitsuo Fuchida 23 8 Driving with the President — Winston Churchill 240 The breakout from Bir Hakeim — Susan Travers 240 The taking of Tobruk — Heinz Werner Schmidt 243 Panic in Cairo - Alan Moorehead 246 Assuming command - Bernard Montgomery 247 The Australians in North Africa - Alan Moorehead 248 The wooden wonder — Don Bennett 249 Flying fighters for Russia - Tamara Pamyatnykh 250 Meeting Stalin — Winston Churchill 252 The soft belly of the crocodile - Winston Churchill 253 A box of apples — Henry Metelmann 254 An extermination at Belzec — Kurt Gerstein 256 The Dieppe raid - Ross Munro 259 Autumn 1942 At Guadalcanal - Herbert С Merillat 262 The fight for Henderson Field - Mitchell Paige 264 Blueberry pie —John Hersey 267 Planning for El Alamein - Bernard Montgomery 268 An infantry officer at Alamein - H. P. Samwell 270 Waiting for the medic — H. P. Samwell 272 The knockout punch — Bernard Montgomery 274 Retreat in the desert — Heinz Werner Schmidt 274 Blowing the Gorgopotamos bridge — Denys Hamson 277 Winter 1942-3 In the streets of Stalingrad - Anton K. Dragan 279 Encircled-Joachim Wieder 281 The German retreat -Joachim Wieder 284 The pride of the captured generals - Vasili Chuikov 285 A Jew story - Christabel Bielenberg 286 The oldest profession - Adrian Vincent 290 The mine - Keith Douglas . 292 Close combat in Tunisia - Fred H. Salter 295 x Contents The stillness of the dead - Alan Moorehead 297 The Cretan runner - George Psychoundakis 298 Heavy water - Knut Haukelid 299 On de Gaulle - Winston Churchill З02 Spring 1943 The Warsaw Ghetto uprising - Simha Rotem 304 'It's so hard to die' - Alexander Donat Зоб A parachute drop goes wrong - Oluf Olsen 3 10 Hitching a lift with the enemy - Oluf Olsen 3ιτ On Longstop Hill - Alan Moorehead 3 ! 3 The fall of Tunis - Alan Moorehead 3 Η The turn of the tide -Ernie Pyle 318 Dealing with the Americans - Alan Brooke 319 The Dambusters - Guy Gibson 3 20 Lunch with Guy Gibson - David Niven 335 Arrival at Auschwitz - Kitty Hart 325 Summer 1943 A raid on Tito's headquarters - Vladimir Dedijer 329 Death of a partisan — Vladimir Dedijer 33° The invasion of Sicily - Douglas Grant ЗЗ2 'They ask for cigarettes' - George Patton 333 A final prayer-Ernie Pyle 335 Besieged in Leningrad- Vera Inber 335 'You are the most hated man in Italy' - Benito Mussolini 337 Rome hears of Mussolini's fall - M. DeWyss 3 3 8 Escape or die- André Devigny 341 The meaning of freedom — André Devigny 343 Beri beri- Russell Braddon 345 The raid on Regensburg - Beirne Lay 3 47 Aircraft carriers of ice - Alan Brooke 3 5 г Autumn 1943 The Italian armistice - Iris Origo 353 With the Americans at Anzio -Jack Belden 3 54 Landing at Paestum - Norman Lewis 356 The German counter-attack - Alan Moorehead and Lt Rocholl 357 The rescue of Mussolini - Otto Skorzeny 3 5 8 Naples rises - Sophia Loren 3 бо A decline in the cat population - Norman Lewis 362 Contents xi The butterfly collector - Eric Newby 3 62 The Grand Tour - Mark Clark 365 Wounded in Italy — Richard Tregaskis 366 Midget submarines against the Tirpitz — Godfrey Place 368 Enduring the Russian Front — Heknut Pabst 370 The legacy of Hippocrates — Peter Bamm 3 72 The death of Butch O'Hare - Alvin Kernan 374 Madame Chiang — Alan Brooke 376 The Tehran Conference - Alan Brooke 377 Caught between Churchill and Stalin - Elliott Roosevelt 378 Winter 1943-4 Crossing the lines in Italy —John Verney 381 Building morale in Burma - William Slim 384 A photograph of General Kawabe — William Slim 385 Defying the Boche in Belgium — Anne Brusselmans 386 An interview with the Prime Minister — Fitzroy Maclean 3 87 The destruction of the Scharnhorst - B. B. Ramsden 388 Absent friends in the US AAF - John Comer 391 The Anzio Derby - F. C. M. Reeves 393 Planning for D-Day — Bernard Montgomery 3 94 With the Marines on New Guinea — Warner Pyne 395 The Forgotten Army —John Masters 396 The massacre in the Admin Box — Geoffrey Evans 398 The cap — Roman Frister 400 Spring 1Џ44 The burden of command — William Slim 404 With the Chindits - Richard Rhodes James 406 In the Deep —John Masters 408 Retreat from Kohima — Manabu Wada 410 The straggle for Monte Cassino - E. D. 'Birdie' Smith 412 The coward - Fred Salter 414 The taking of Cassino — Fred Majdalany 416 An argument with Goering - Adolf Galland 417 In the skies over Germany - Heinz Knoke 418 Vengeance - Lindsay Rogers 420 'The Life That I Have' - Leo Marks 421 Kidnapping General Kreipe - Bill Stanley Moss 423 Scabies and babies - Ross Carter 427 The Montgomery touch - Alan Moorehead 429 xii Contents Summer 1944 D-Day - Dwight Eisenhower 43° The bridge at Troam - 'Rosie' Rosevere 433 Waiting for orders - Hans von Luck 434 Parachuting into Normandy - David K. Webster 43 6 Landing on Omaha - J. Robert Slaughter 439 On Sword Beach - Patrick Porteous 442 Attacked by a flame-thrower -Joseph Haeger 443 Still no orders came - Hans von Luck 444 The end of our neighbour - Raymond Paris 44" Tending the casualties - Naina Beaven 447 Rome Ms - Mark Clark 44« Death in the afternoon - Stuart Hood 45° Kissing Botticelli's Venus - Eric Linklater 453 The legacy of war - Iris Origo 455 Arrested by the Gestapo - Marie-Madeleine Fourcade 45^ Escape — Marie-Madeleine Fourcade 459 The July bomb plot - Nicolaus von Below 4^2 'Hitler is dead!' - Marie Vassiltchikov 4б4 Retreat in the East - Guy Sajer 467 The evacuation of the Chindits -John Masters 471 Hungover on Guam - William Manchester 471 The buzz bomb —James Lees-Mime 474 Tank warfare in the bocage — Ken Tout 475 Tank-busting - Raymond Lallemant 478 The Polish Home Army rises - Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski 481 Paris liberated - Robert Capa 48 5 'The Ritz is still the Ritz' - Peter Carrington 486 Autumn 1944 The assault on Peleliu - Eugene Sledge 489 Exasperated with Churchill - Alan Brooke 49 l Trapped in Arnhem - Robert Urquhart 492 On Arnhem Bridge -John Frost 495 The Holocaust - Hermione Ranfurly 497 Disposing of the bodies at Auschwitz - Art Spiegelman 498 The Gothic Line - Martha Gellhorn 499 Irregular warfare in Albania -Julian Amery S00 A deal with Stalin - Winston Churchill 5°3 The liberation of Athens ~ Hennione Ranfurly 5°4 Contents xiii The death of Rommel - Manfred Rommel 506 Return to the Philippines - Douglas MacArthur 509 Willie Mullins gets a letter - Ross Carter 512 'They're regular Penelopes, Limey!' — Ross Carter 514 Difficulties in France - Alan Brooke 514 Winter 1944-5 So perish all Czech traitors - Radomír Luza 516 The Battle of the Bulge - Donald R. Burgett 518 A prisoner's fate — Charles Macdonald 521 Last days at Auschwitz - Primo Levi 523 The Yalta Conference - Andrei Gromyko 525 Disobedience on the Eastern Front - Armin Scheiderbauer 528 A flying court-martial - Hans von Luck 530 Tank commander - Evgeni Bessonov 532 Across the Irrawaddy - William Slim 533 'Your sword is shining' - Kazuo Imai 535 On Iwo Jima - US Marine Corps Correspondents 537 Kamikaze — Tadashi Nakajima 540 The bombing of Dresden - Victor Klemperer 541 The hazards of war - Pierre Clostermann 544 Spring 1945 The sinking of the Yamato - Yoshida Mitsuru 547 Surviving a kamikaze attack - Geoffrey Brooke 549 Okinawa — Eugene Sledge 551 The slaughter of an innocent - George Lince 553 'I am remembering the first man I slew' — William Manchester 554 Into the Reich - Charles B. Macdonald 555 A birth in the rubble — Guy Sajer 560 At Belsen - Alan Moorehead 562 Mussolini's execution - Pier Luigi Bellini delle Stelle and Urbano Lazzaro 567 Ignominy and revenge — Philip Hamburger 568 Berlin encircled - Evgeni Bessonov 569 'We retreated and retreated' - Ulf Ollech 571 The spoils of war - Claus Fuhrmann 573 A last meeting with Hitler - Albert Speer 575 Götterdämmerung - Traudì Junge 577 Churchill hears of Hitler's death -John Colville 579 The Gemían surrender - Bernard Montgomery 580 xiv Contents VE Day in London - Mollie Panter-Downes 581 Summer 1945 The horror of Okinawa -KoeiKinjo 5^5 A murder in the caves - Toyo Gima 5^5 On Hill 69 - Eugene Sledge 586 In a Harrow Weald teashop - George Beardmore 58& The Potsdam Conference - Andrei Gromyko 588 Truman tells Stalin of the atomic bomb - Winston Churchill 59° The new masters - Tom Pocock 59 Hiroshima, 6 August 1945 - Michihiko Hachiya 593 'The biggest thing since Christ came' - Hermione Ranfurly 596 A Japanese prisoner of war is freed - Russell Braddon 597 A prisoner of the Allies - Yuji Aida 599 Autumn 1945 and beyond The Japanese surrender — Toshikazu Kase 601 The end of the war -William Slim Ó03 Serving the indictment on Goering - Airey Neave 605 The atrocity film is shown at Nuremberg - Gustav Gilbert 608 The executions of the Nazi leaders - Kingsbury Smith 610 A soldier comes home - Dirk Bogarde 617 Acknowledgements 621
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