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One aristocratic housewife: Sarah Baring, The Road to Station X (Wilton 65), 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 Nov. 1940.
“Human casualties were”: Nixon, pp. 42–43.
“Some people … recall”: Longmate, p. 66.
“I pray, Oh God!”: Rev H. A. Wilson, quoted in Longmate, pp. 79–80.
“Neither had any idea”: Nixon, p. 62.
“It was the old people”: Owen and 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 flippant: 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 June 1940.
“The British people are”: Barclay, p. 73.
CHAPTER FIVE THE MEDITERRANEAN
“Madam, I cannot”: IWM 08/132/1 Kruczkiewitz MS, p. 150.
a contemptuous joke: Hagen, p. 34.
“We want to reach Suez”: Knox MacGregor, Mussolini Unleashed (Cambridge, 1982), p. 153.
“Everyone thinks only”: ibid., p. 135.
“We’re trying to fight”: Colin Smith and John Bierman, Alamein: War Without Hate (Penguin, 2002), p. 28.
“loaded with the paraphernalia”: Arthur, p. 191.
They can’t take it”: Mark Johnston, At the Front Line (Cambridge, 1996), p. 14.
“All Australians now know”: ibid., p. 15.
“One can’t help”: Smith and Bierman, p. 49.
To this end: Killingray, p. 169.
“It goes without saying”: Sebastian, p. 320.
“Every day was”: Arthur, p. 212.
“Beyond doubt Spain”: Stanley Payne, Franco and Hitler (Yale, 2008), p. 62.
“it was a point of both”: ibid., p. 94.
“We are all twenty-one”: Smith and Bierman, p. 149.
“Here things are going”: Andrea Rebora, ed., Letters of Lt. Pietro Ostellino, N. Africa Jan. 1941 to March 1943 (Prospettiva Editrice), p. 51.
“Morale is very high”: ibid., p. 52.
“The rot seemed to set in”: Smith and Bierman, p. 70.
“We are well advanced”: Ostellino, p. 73.
“Yesterday I received”: ibid., p. 79, 3 June 1941.
“If anyone makes”: Mack Smith, p. 357.
“Not having any money”: C. N. Hadjipateras and M. S. Falfalios, eds., Greece 1940–41 Eyewitnessed (Efstathiadis, 1995), p. 35.
“When we’ve beaten”: ibid., p. 33.
“The door of our”: ibid., p. 104.
“Starving, soaked to the bone”: ibid., p. 122.
“Many, many pessimists”: MacGregor, p. 201.
“Best place we have”: Tony Simpson, Operation Mercury (Hodder & Stoughton, 1981), p. 92.
“We were followed by”: ibid., p. 101.
“It’s a peculiar feeling”: ibid., p. 107.
“the patter of feet”: ibid., p. 97.
“They were the ones”: Hadjipateras and Falfalios, p. 124.
“During the afternoon”: Johnston, p. 29.
“I saw a captain”: Hadjipateras and Falfalios, p. 197.
“George, a black night”: ibid., p. 230.
“He began by saying”: ibid., p. 255.
“I think … the masses”: Koa Wing, p. 92.
The Vichy French authorities: for an exceptionally vivid account of Vichy’s intervention in Iraq and the campaign in Syria, see Colin Smith, England’s Last War with France: Fighting Vichy, 1940–42 (Weidenfeld, 2009), passim, especially pp. 96–98.
“Churchill’s policy”: Warren Tute, The Reluctant Enemies (Collins, 1990), p. 81.
“My God, what is”: Némirovsky, p. 347, 21 June 1941.
“You thought we were”: Alan Moorehead, African Trilogy (Hamish Hamilton, 1999), p. 164.
“I for one have”: Roald Dahl, Going Solo (Penguin, 1988), p. 196.
“So long as Britain”: Sebastian, p. 358.
“I can only now”: Ostellino, p. 140.
“We can learn from”: Johnston, p. 28.
“In 1941 and early 1942”: Overlord correspondence.
“One enemy post”: Johnston,