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‘Few of my own misfortunes’ Zweig p.149

‘Silently, with no lights’ Némirovsky p.42

‘Their bodies had been’ ibid. p.53

‘We found them among’ Paul Richey Fighter Pilot Cassell 2001 pp.69–70

‘A disillusioned Johnny’ ibid. p.90

‘All along the road’ Hart p.47

‘was led astray’ Jackson p.126

‘What are you waiting for’ ibid. p.144

‘It should really be’ Barry Leach & Ian MacDonald eds Command in Conflict: The Diaries and Notes of Colonel-General Franz Halder and Other Members of the German High Command Oxford 1985 p.656

‘I am so impatient’ Roy Macnab For Honour Alone Hale 1988 p.59

‘Today among many’ Jackson p.144

‘The British were granted’ see Max Hastings Finest Years HarperCollins 2009 p.45 et seq.

‘I should … describe France’ Jackson. p.182

‘Have we suffered enough?’ ibid. p.233

‘For years, everything done’ Némirovsky p.351

‘Stalin was in a great’ Sergei Khrushchev ed. The Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev Thomas Watson Institute 2004 Vol. I p.256

‘To his intimates’ Denis Mack Smith Mussolini Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981 p.250

‘The C-in-C [Gen. Walter von Brauchitsch]’ Halder p.668

‘The war machine rolled’ Rosemary Say & Noel Holland Rosie’s War Michael Mara Books 2011 p.86

Chapter 4 – Britain Alone

‘I looked down on the calm’ Richey p.155

‘Heard today that Hitler’ Ronald Blythe ed. Private Words Viking 1991 p.98 19.7.40

‘a regessive moral’ Michael Burleigh Moral Combat HarperCollins 2010 p.202

‘All at once, crossfire’ Geoffrey Wellum First Light Penguin 2002 p.148

‘Spitfire on my tail!’ Stephen Bungay The Most Dangerous Enemy Aurum 2010 p.118

‘We are in the Geschwader’ ibid. p.116

‘It was just beer, women’ ibid. p.119

‘We used to booze’ James Holland Battle Over Britain HarperPress 2010 p.548

‘Our hearts leapt!’ Bungay p.179

‘When you seen’ ibid. p.124

‘There was tremendous’ ibid. p.165

‘People who stayed in’ Robert Kershaw p.163

‘It was rather like’ Beatrice Bishop Berle & Travis Beal Jacobs Navigating the Rapids 1918–1971 Harcourt Brace 1973 p.150

‘Our track across’ Robert Kershaw p.166

‘I could not get’ Holland p.383

‘I then said’ ibid. p.387

‘Oh God I do wish’ IWM 97/43/1 Denis Wissler diary 16.6.40

‘The British are slowly’ Holland p.578

‘I think everyone’ George Barclay Fighter Pilot Kimber 1976 p.43

‘We have been up four times’ ibid. p.45

‘nearly jumped clean’ Sandy Johnstone Enemy in the Sky Kimber 1976 p.118

‘Wherever one looks’ Holland p.543

‘the pure azure-blue’ ibid. p.537

‘Our airmen have had’ Headlam p.220

‘the troops under our command’ Charles Hudson Journal of Major-General Charles Hudson Wilton 65 1992 pp.187–9

‘One aristocratic housewife’ Sarah Baring The Road to Station X Wilton 65 2000 p.20

‘The Sedgebury Wallop platoon’ A.G. Street From Dusk Until Dawn Blandford 1945 pp.59–60

‘The bombs came down’ Barbara Nixon Raiders Overhead Scolar 1980 p.129

‘I wonder what the pilots’ Koa Wing p.60 15.11.40

‘Human casualties were’ Nixon pp.42–3

‘Some people … recall’ Longmate p.66

‘I pray, Oh God!’ Rev H.A. Wilson quoted Longmate pp.79–80

‘Neither had any idea’ Nixon p.62

‘It was the old people’ Owen & Walters p.94

‘as evidently her nerves’ Koa Wing p.52

‘I’ve had really’ ibid. p.53

‘Early in the war’ James Owen Danger UXB Little Brown 2010 passim

‘Early one morning’ ibid. pp.115–19 and passim

‘The first effects’ Howard Smith Last Train from Berlin London 1942 p.86

‘German command preparing’ Jeffrey p.373

‘It seems almost’ Ian Kershaw Fateful Choices Penguin 2008 passim

‘I do not suppose’ Knoke p.32

‘Germany’s 1940 victories’ see Adam Tooze The Wages of Destruction Penguin 2007 passim

‘The Prime Minister has’ Johnstone p.161

‘a malevolent suspension’ Evelyn Waugh Unconditional Surrender Chapman & Hall 1961 p.147

‘Sometimes I get’ Koa Wing p.37 4.6.40

‘The British people are’ Barclay p.73

Chapter 5 – The Mediterranean

1 MUSSOLINI GAMBLES

‘Madam, I cannot’ IWM 08/132/1 Kruczkiewicz MS p.150

‘a contemptuous joke’ Hagen p.34

‘We want to reach Suez’ Knox MacGregor Mussolini Unleashed Cambridge