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‘I encountered chaos’ IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS

‘In the household’ Simon Garfield Private Battles Ebury 2006 p.48

‘Where on earth can’ Raczyski p.34

Chapter 2 – No Peace, Little War

‘Seldom have I seen’ Arthur Bryant The Turn of the Tide Collins 1957 p.71

‘both the French communists’ IWM Kornicki MS p.89

‘The war doesn’t seem’ Douglas Arthur Desert Watch Blaisdon 2000 p.76

‘We went to strange beds’ Norman Longmate The Home Front Chatto & Windus 1981 p.17

‘The village people objected’ Koa Wing p.15

‘some 18 per cent’ Public Opinion 1935–1946 Princeton University Press 1951 p.48

‘Defence regulations were’ E.S. Turner The Phoney War Michael Joseph 1961 p.53

‘trotted home like a gentleman’ Street narrative by courtesy of Miranda Corben

‘It certainly is breath-taking’ IWM Elizabeth Belsey correspondence 6.3.41

‘There was anger’ Turner p.169

‘I used to wonder’ Arthur Kellas Down to Earth Pentland Press 1989 p.11

‘Look at ’im, girls’ Arthur p.28

‘While the [First] World War’ Elliot Roosevelt ed. The Roosevelt Letters Vol. III Harrap 1952 p.286

‘it would be wrong’ Robert Edwards White Death Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2007 p.59

‘When one gives a gift’ ibid. p.68

‘Comrade Commander’ ibid. p.156

‘Comrades, our attack’ ibid. p.82

‘Our units, saturated by’ Chris Bellamy Absolute War Macmillan 2007 p.76

‘The fighting was almost’ Carl Mydans More than Meets the Eye Harper 1959 p.119

‘I regard it as essential’ Edwards p.206

‘The women of Finland’ Harold Macmillan, Hansard 19.3.40

‘In the early afternoon’ Edwards p.232

‘It’s particularly cold’ ibid. p.254

‘One thing is clear’ ibid. p.261

‘At least you will tell them’ Mydans p.129

‘The idea was to’ François Kersaudy Norway 1940 Collins 1990 p.31

‘Everyone is getting married’ Koa Wing p.32

‘We have had to suffer’ ibid. p.18

‘After Daladier’ Julian Jackson The Fall of France Oxford 2003 p.127

Chapter 3 – Blitzkriegs in the West

1 NORWAY

‘I think of the Germans’ Ruth Maier Ruth Maier’s Diary Harvill Secker 2009 p.115

‘[The man] turns to me’ ibid. p.231

‘I am profoundly moved’ Kersaudy p.103

‘You cannot conceive’ Keith Jeffrey MI6: The History of the Secret Intelligence Service 1909–49 Bloomsbury 2010 p.374

‘imagine how we felt’ Robert Kershaw Never Surrender Hodder & Stoughton 2009 p.37

‘very young lads who appeared’ Kersaudy p.169

‘Drunk British troops’ BNA FO371/24833

‘The war goes on’ Street diary in possession of Miranda Corben 27.4.40

‘The worst of it all’ BNA W0106/1962

‘Those officers who had’ Adrian Gilbert Voices of the Foreign Legion Skyhorse 2010 p.190

‘I am stunned’ Koa Wing p.35

2 THE FALL OF FRANCE

‘striding up and down’ Jackson p.11

‘The noise of their engines’ R. Balbaud quoted Jackson p.164

‘The gunners stopped’ ibid. p.164

‘A wave of terrified fugitives’ ibid. p.166

‘The room was barely’ ibid. p.47

‘sitting in tragic immobility’ ibid. p.224

‘with unbelieving terror’ Kershaw p.54

‘We want to go home’ ibid. p.168

‘I saw very well’ ibid. p.169

‘an immediate impression’ Jackson p.170

‘They told us terrible things’ ibid. p.172

‘Even though the reports’ Irène Némirovsky Suite française Chatto & Windus 2006 p.3

‘The people are half-mad’ Jackson p.176

‘They had to dress their children’ Némirovsky p.41

‘After a few days’ fighting’ John Horsfall Say Not the Struggle Roundwood 1977 p.157

‘Armed as they were’ Michael Howard Liberation or Catastrophe Hambledon 2008 p.9

‘Our soldiers just need’ Horsfall p.54

‘I lost my temper’ Sir Edmund Ironside The Ironside Diaries ed. MacLeod & Kelly London 1962 p.321

‘It was evident’ Horsfall p.57

‘I remember the order’ Kershaw p.56

‘It was so wonderful’ Owen & Walters p.45

‘When we went ashore’ Peter Hart At the Sharp End Leo Cooper 1998 p.75

‘At Ramsgate we met’ Horsfall p.151

‘We … are woken’ McCormick letter in possession of Mrs Miranda Corbin

‘I forgot I was’ Nella Last Nella Last’s War Sphere 1981 p.62

‘We are really tired’ Jackson p.178

‘Many of them were’ Constantin Joffe We Were Free Smith & Durrell 1943 p.47

‘In these ruined