Inferno - Max Hastings [425]
INTRODUCTION
“These are strange times”: Anonymous, A Woman in Berlin (Virago, 2009), p. 35.
“Pfc. Eric Diller’s battalion”: Eric Diller, Memoirs of a Combat Infantryman (privately published, 2002), p. 77.
in January 1942 Hitler: Helmuth von Moltke, ed. Beatte von Oppen, Letters to Freya (Collins Harvill, 1991), p. 204, 24 Jan. 1942.
CHAPTER ONE POLAND BETRAYED
“Somehow, I considered”: Rula Langer, The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (Roy, 1942), p. 20.
“Like most of us”: Lynn Olson and 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. 1, 15 May 1939.
“If there was hardship”: Norman Davies, God’s Playground (Oxford, 1981), Vol. 2, p. 426.
“In view of Poland’s”: Edward Raczynski, In Allied London (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962) p. 20, 30 Aug. 1939.
“It’s a wonderful feeling”: James Owen and Guy Walters, ed., The Voices of War (Penguin, 2004) p. 9.
“They were united”: IWM 08/132/1 Kruczkiewitz MS, p. 163.
“We sang a Polish hymn”: IWM 02/23/1 Ephrahim Blaichman MS.
“and told me he was”: IWM 86/17/1 P. Fleming MS.
“You’re alive, Witold?”: Olson and Cloud, p. 52.
Franciszek Kornicki: IWM Kornicki MS 01/1/1.
“After recovering from”: IWM 03/41/1 Ralph Smorczewski MS.
“I was awakened”: Kruczkiewitz, 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 the roar of an aeroplane”: 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 Carlton 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. 32–33.
“have only themselves”: Stuart Ball, ed., Parliament and Politics in the Age of Churchill and Attlee: The Headlam Diaries, 1935–1951 (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!”: Raczynski, p. 27.
“Are they still waiting?”: Mihail Sebastian, Journal, 1935–44 (Heinemann, 2001), p. 234.
“I had never experienced”: IWM 02/23/1 Blaichman MS.
“I called out”: Janusz Piekalkiewitcz, The Cavalry of World War II (Orbis, 1979), p. 9.
“The lovely Polish”: Olson and Cloud, p. 52.
“They would hurry”: Piekalkiewitcz, p. 12.
“I can only compare”: IWM Lt. Piotr Tarczsynski MS.
“Boys I was at school”: IWM 95/13/1 George Slazak 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 and Cloud, p. 69.
“What was happening”: Anders, p. 7.
“Fellow countrymen!”: Raczynski, p. 36.
“It isn’t right!”: Adrian Ball, The Last Days of the Old World (Doubleday, 1963), pp. 27–28.
“It would seem”: Janet Flanner, New Yorker, 10 Sept. 1939.
“Loathing war passionately”: Leo Amery, My Political Life (Hutchinson, 1955), Vol. 3, p. 328.
“Practically everyone thinks”: Simon Garfield, ed., We Are at War (Ebury, 2009), p. 36.
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