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“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, Time Unguarded: The Ironside Diaries, ed. Roderick MacLeod ard Denis Kelly (London, 1962), p. 321.
“It was evident”: Horsfall, p. 57.
“I remember the order”: Kershaw, p. 56.
“It was so wonderful”: Owen and 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 villages”: Alastair Horne, To Lose a Battle (Macmillan, 1969), p. 489.
“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 and 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. 1, 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 and Noel Holland, Rosie’s War (Michael Mara Books, 2011), p. 86.
CHAPTER FOUR 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 July 1940.
“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 and 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 June 1940.
“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),