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p. 76 ‘I received a telegram’ Letter to the editor, Life, 24 June 1940, p. 4.
p. 76 At least two American drivers ‘Ambulances from America’, Time, 3 June 1940.
p. 76 ‘Coster was in the Colonel’s office’ Muir, War without Music, pp. 69–70.
p. 76 ‘with the knowledge … At noon I gave up’ Ibid., p. 90.
p. 76 ‘ Lovering Hill, commander’ ‘Search for Drivers of Ambulance Fails’, New York Times, 26 May 1940, p. 29.
p. 77 The French government awarded George Rock, History of the American Field Service, 1920–1955, New York: American Field Service Publication, 1956, p. 7.
p. 77 ‘I walked into … He turned his gun’ Donald Q. Coster, ‘Behind German Lines’, Reader’s Digest, 3 November 1940 (pp. 115–25), p. 117.
p. 77 ‘There … we were …You may may have seen’ Ibid., p. 117.
p. 78 ‘The general … Beautiful to watch’ Ibid., p. 123.
p. 78 ‘In the fraction … Ah–we never see’ Ibid., p. 120.
p. 79 ‘We hurried to the Kommandant’ Ibid., p. 123.
p. 79 ‘We were stopped three’ Ibid., p. 125.
p. 79 ‘one of the American ambulance’ George Kennan, Sketches from a Life, New York: Pantheon Books, 1989, p. 70 (diary entry for 2 July 1940, Paris–Brussels).
p. 79 ‘Refugees were laboriously … Her dress was torn’ Ibid., pp. 71–2 (same diary date).
p. 80 ‘At the hotel the ambulance’ Ibid., p. 73 (same diary date). The next-door neighbour may have been Dorothy Reeder, who was then residing at the Bristol.
p. 80 ‘Was there not some Greek’ Ibid., p. 74 (diary entry for 3 July 1940).
p. 80 ‘This explained why King’ Coster, ‘Behind German Lines’, Reader’s Digest, 3 November 1940 (pp. 115–25), p. 125.
p. 81 Until the false identity Donald Coster interview with Kathleen Keating, ‘The American Hospital in Paris During the German Occupation’, 19 May 1981, 14-page typescript, p. 6, American Hospital of Paris Archives, File: German Occupation by Kathleen Keating and Various Other Histories, 1940–1944.
p. 81 ‘The Germans permitted Dr. Jackson’ Dr Morris Sanders, ‘The Mission of Dr. Sumner Jackson’, The News of Massachusetts General Hospital, vol. 24, no. 5, June–July 1965, p. 6.
p. 81 ‘With the Occupation of Paris’ Quoted in Vaughan, Doctor to the Resistance, p. 60.
p. 81 ‘An impressive line of ambulances’ Otto Gresser, ‘History of the American Hospital of Paris’, 28 September 1978, 14-page typescript, p. 4, Archives of the American Hospital of Paris, File: History by Otto Gresser.
p. 82 He blamed what he called Quoted in an interview with Phillip Jackson, in Vaughan, Doctor to the Resistance, p. 48.
p. 82 ‘Too much praise cannot be’ ‘The American Hospital in Paris in the Second World War’, printed in France, 1940, p. 31, Archives of the American Hospital of Paris, File: German Occupation by Kathleen Keating and Various Other Histories, 1940–1944.
p. 82 Dr Thierry de Martel left a nephew ‘Drue Tartière, Back from Paris, Tells of Hiding Flyers from Foe’, New York Herald Tribune, 7 January 1945, p. 6.
p. 82 ‘for I had grown weary’ Drue Tartière with M. R. Werner, The House near Paris: An American Woman’s Story of Traffic in Patriots, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946, p. 9.
p. 83 German radio announced Ibid., p. 18.
p. 83 ‘grandmothers holding dead babies’ Ibid., p. 12.
p. 83 ‘we realized that the so-called’ Ibid., p. 13.
p. 83 ‘Lingerie is on the next floor’ Brian Moynahan, The French Century, London: Flammarion, 2007, p. 271.
p. 83 ‘The day was stifling’ Drue Tartière, The House near Paris, p. 16.
p. 84 ‘In Tours, there was even greater’ Ibid., p. 17.
p. 84 ‘From the Bordeaux radio station’ Ibid., pp. 18–19.
p. 84 ‘a boy was arranging … I had stood next to him’ Ibid., p. 4.
p. 85 ‘old Citroën with a motor’ A. J. Liebling, The Road Back to Paris, London: Michael Joseph, 1944, p. 85. See also ‘War Babies’, Time, 17 June 1940.
p. 85 ‘We had our café au lait’ Liebling, The Road Back to Paris, pp. 90–91.
p. 85 Many Frenchmen had already Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wartime Writings, 1939–1944, New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1986, pp. xiv and 52.
p. 86 ‘The voice spoke of resistance’