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‘Somehow, I considered’ Rula Langer The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt Roy 1942 p.20

‘Like most of us’ Lynn Olson & Stanley Cloud For Your Freedom and Ours Heinemann 2003 p.46

‘You aren’t going to Siberia’ Jan Karski Story of a Secret State Penguin 2011 p.5

‘To hear people talk’ Walter Duranty Atlantic Monthly September 1939 p.393

‘would quickly be turned’ Galeazzo Ciano Diaries Milan 1946 Vol. I 15.5.39

‘If there was hardship’ Norman Davies God’s Playground Oxford 1981 Vol. II p.426

‘In view of Poland’s’ Edward Raczyski In Allied London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1962 p.20 30.8.39

‘It’s a wonderful feeling’ James Owen & Guy Walters ed. The Voices of War Penguin 2004 p.9

‘They were united’ IWM 08/132/1 Kruczkiewicz MS p.163

‘We sang a Polish hymn’ IWM 02/23/1 Ephrahim Bleichman MS

‘and told me he was’ IWM 86/17/1 P. Fleming MS

‘You’re alive, Witold?’ Olson & Cloud p.52

‘Franciszek Kornicki’ IWM Kornicki MS 01/1/1

‘After recovering from’ IWM 03/41/1 Ralph Smorczewski MS

‘I was awakened’ Kruczkiewicz p.166

‘The stench of burning’ IWM Pilot B.J. Solak MS

‘We saw two women’ IWM 86/15/1 P. Fleming MS

‘Suddenly, there was’ Wladyslaw Anders An Army in Exile Macmillan 1949 p.3

‘It was a terrible place’ IWM 01/1/1 Pilot Franciszek Kornicki MS

‘I saw the very face’ Adrian Carton de Wiart Happy Odyssey Jonathan Cape 1950 p.156

‘news that shook’ Evelyn Waugh Officers and Gentlemen Chapman & Hall 1955 p.5

‘This war has a’ Moltke p.33

‘There is no excitement’ William Shirer This is Berlin Hutchinson 1999 p.75

‘None of the brave’ Alexander Stahlberg Bounden Duty Brassey 1990 p.116

‘They did not feel’ Stefan Zweig The World of Yesterday Pushkin Press 2010 p.247

‘I regarded England’s’ Louis Hagen Ein Volk ein Reich: Nine Lives Under the Reich Spellmount 2011 pp.32–3

‘have only themselves’ Cuthbert Headlam, ed. Stuart Ball Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee Cambridge 1999 p.167

‘Mother was very’ Sandra Koa Wing ed. Our Longest Days Profile 2008 p.31

‘an ominous rumour’ David Killingray Fighting for Britain James Currey 2010 p.11

‘The effect was’ Max Hastings Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Michael Joseph 1984 correspondence

‘The mental approach’ David Fraser Wars and Shadows Penguin 2002 p.122

‘It was a marvellous’ Max Hastings Bomber Command files, Davis to the author

‘How lucky you are!’ Raczyski p.27

‘Are they still waiting?’ Mihail Sebastian Journal 1935–44 Heinemann 2001 p.234

‘I had never experienced’ IWM 02/23/1 Bleichman MS

‘I called out’ Janusz Piekałkiewicz The Cavalry of World War II Orbis 1979 p.9

‘The lovely Polish’ Olson & Cloud p.52

‘They would hurry’ Piekalkiewitcz p.12

‘I can only compare’ IWM Lt. Piotr Tarczyski MS

‘Boys I was at school’ IWM 95/13/1 George lzak MS

‘The advance of the armies’ Heinz Knoke I Flew for the Führer Evans 1979 p.20

‘Run – run for your lives’ IWM 78/52/1 Stefan Kurylak MS

‘You know the British’ Olson & Cloud p.69

‘What was happening’ Anders p.7

‘Fellow countrymen!’ Raczyski p.36

‘It isn’t right!’ Adrian Ball The Last Days of the Old World Doubleday 1963 pp.27–8

‘It would seem’ Janet Flanner New Yorker 10.9.39

‘Loathing war passionately’ Leo Amery My Political Life Hutchinson 1955 Vol. III p.328

‘Practically everyone thinks’ Simon Garfield ed. We are at War Ebury 2009 p.36

‘And he, when the city’ Davies p.83

‘The procession of wounded’ Owen & Walters p.16

‘I get up at 6.30’ Mungo Melvin Manstein Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2010 p.122

‘It was nice to see’ ibid. p.125

‘Red, glittering flames’ General K.S. Rudnicki Last of the Old Warhorses Bachman & Turner 1974 p.49

‘Tomorrow morning we shall’ ibid. p.54

‘at variance with’ ibid p.63

‘Desolate as was’ IWM 91/6/1 Feliks Lachman MS

‘standing over the corpse’ IWM 08/132/1 Adam Kruczkiewicz MS p.168

‘We are now good friends’ Anders p.13

‘From this instant’ IWM 99/3/1 Tadeusz Zukowski MS

‘You Polish, fascist lords!’ Karski p.23

‘How is it possible’ IWM 91/6/1 Lachman MS

‘Gentlemen, you have seen’ John Raleigh Behind the Nazi Front Dodd Mead 1940 p.320

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