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“The procession of wounded”: Owen and 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 Felicks Lachman MS.
“standing over the corpse”: IWM 08/132/1 Adam Krusczkiewitz 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.
“Well, your Poles”: Carlton de Wiart, p. 160.
“encountered chaos”: IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek Goldberg MS.
“In the household”: Simon Garfield, Private Battles (Ebury, 2006), p. 48.
“Where on earth can”: Raczynski, p. 34.
CHAPTER TWO 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 percent: 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 courtesy of Miranda Corben.
“It certainly is breath-taking”: IWM Elizabeth Belsey correspondence, 6 March 1941.
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. 3 (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 March 1940.
“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”: Francois 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 THREE BLITZKRIEGS IN THE WEST
“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 April 1940.
“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.
“striding up and down”: Jackson, p. 11.
“The noise of their engines”: R. Balbaud, quoted in 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.
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