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- Farrell, Defense and Fall of Singapore 1940–1942 , 311. Interestingly, Hitler
evinced an obsession with prestige, too, which led him to reject voluntary
withdrawal from cities to which he attached symbolic importance. Hence
the German disaster at Stalingrad, a pattern that was repeated time and
again later in the war on the Eastern Front. - Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 283, 285.
- Th e British military chiefs held Churchill’s strategic judgment in low
regard. Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 117. - Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 446.
- Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 422–23. Even Brooke suspected
Churchill wanted campaigns under British command for domestic
political reasons, since the prime minister would face the voters as
soon as the European war ended. Roberts, Masters and Commanders ,
431–32. One has to wonder, though, whether the British people after
four years of war would have shared Churchill’s eagerness for British
glory or instead preferred to let someone else take up the burden and
cost. - Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 420–21, 498–99.
- Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 496–97.
- Roberts, Masters and Commanders , 556.
- Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 579–80, 607–8.
- Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 394.
- Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 623–24.
- For similar views, see Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 1–2; Roberts, Mas-
ters and Commanders , 77. - Kennedy, Freedom from Fear , 487–88. Publication of the details of the
Victory Program, leaked by an isolationist senator, represented a grave
security breach that gave German war planners key details about the
American mobilization timetable and broad strategic plan. Th ey might
have used the information to impede the Anglo-American war eff ort if
Hitler had been willing to listen to their recommendations. Since these
would have involved going on the defensive on the Eastern Front and
making operational withdrawals, however, he rejected their advice out-of-
hand. Larrabee, Commander in Chief , 124–27. - Richard W. Steele, Free Speech in the Good War (New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 1999). - Kennedy, Freedom from Fear , 619.
- Kennedy, Freedom from Fear , 793–94.
- Kennedy, Freedom from Fear , 786–87. On the broad eff ects of the GI Bill,
see especially Suzanne Mettler, Soldiers to Citizens: Th e G.I. Bill and the
Making of the Greatest Generation (New York: Oxford University Press,
2005). - Personal consumption fell 22 percent in Great Britain during the war.
Kennedy, Freedom from Fear , 646–47.