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“Yesterday I received”: Belov diary, 31 Dec. 1942.
“Any personal balance”: Sebastian, p. 585, 2 Dec. 1943.
“A pale, thin woman”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, p. 273, 11 Sept. 1942.
“What is left of it?”: ibid., p. 273, 1 Oct. 1942.
“We’ve got to work”: ibid., 20 Oct 1942.
“We had no life”: Braithwaite, p. 131.
“Farm times became”: Lizzie Collingham, The Taste of War (Allen Lane, 2011), p. 78.
“People were not”: Fraser, p. 183.
Edward McCormick: letter in possession of Mrs. Miranda Corben.
Gladys Skillett: Times obituary, 27 Feb. 2010, by Colin Smith.
“Now it is dawn”: Miriam Mafai, Pane Nero: Donne e vita quotidiana nella seconda Guerra mondiale (Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1987), pp. 159–62.
“The cold and damp”: ibid., p. 243.
“It was sad to see”: Say and Holland, p. 297.
Stefan Kurylak: IWM Kurylak MS.
“We are being taken”: IWM 99/9/1 Poznanski MS.
“The extraordinary thing”: Anthony Powell, A Writer’s Notebook (Heinemann, 2001), p. 94.
“Woke half drunk”: Michael Davie, ed., The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1976), p. 567, 1 June 1944.
“in comparison to”: Last, p. 221, 11 Oct. 1942.
“Christmas is going to be”: Martin Crook, ed., Wartime Letters of a West Kent Man (privately published, 2007).
“We never knew”: Spectator, 14 Dec. 1942.
“His strange uniform”: Blythe, Private Words, p. 43.
“Her face was wooden”: Koa Wing, p. 188, 7 Sept. 1943.
“I had a very nice”: Studs Terkel, The Good War (Hamish Hamilton, 1984), p. 224.
“I cried because”: Koa Wing, p. 135, 16 June 1942.
“He was a soldier”: Terkel, p. 118.
Bernice Schmidt: Janine Sinkoskey Brodine, ed., Missing Pieces (Hara Publishing, 2000), p. 49.
“What are you thinking”: Koa Wing, p. 144, 9 Oct. 1942.
“Is it possible that”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 35, 12 Jan. 1941.
“One grows ever more”: ibid., p. 60, 25 June 1942.
“Food was our obsession”: Longmate, p. 150.
“One morning a jar”: ibid., p. 156.
“In this place one’s mind”: Tamsin Day-Lewis, ed., Last Letters Home (Macmillan, 1995).
“Imports of European delicacies”: Blum, p. 98.
“I’m sick of the same”: Collingham, p. 112.
In pursuit of the: ibid., p. 217.
“As they died the government”: Theodore White and Annalee Jacoby, Thunder Out of China (Gollancz, 1947), pp. 166–67.
“were still living”: Collingham, p. 116.
“My father had no”: Mafai, p. 167.
“Hunger governed all”: Alan Moorehead, Eclipse (Granta, 2000), p. 66.
“and had the ordinary”: Norman Lewis, Naples ’44, p. 26, 4 Oct. 1943.
“ ‘In order to win the war’ ”: BNA FO371 ZM257/18/22.
That only a relatively: an exemplary examination of these issues is found in David W. Ellwood, Italy 1943–45 (Leicester University Press, 1985).
“A very different”: ibid., p. 152.
“and is, I suspect”: Koa Wing, p. 172, 25 March 1943.
“My initiation into”: Longmate, p. 123.
“The airless workplace”: Baring, p. 55.
“I suppose in everything”: Koa Wing, p. 129, 15 April 1942.
Lazar Brontman recorded: Brontman, p. 185, 29 Aug. 1942.
“tears running down”: Nikolai Nikutin internet MS.
“I went to visit”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, 18 March 1943.
“The PPZh is our”: Grossman, p. 120.
“Villages have become”: Grossman, p. 119.
“Dear Vova!”: Pisma S Voiny, p. 83.
“It sometimes seems”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, Kalinichenko letters, 1 Dec. 1942 and 1 Feb. 1943.
“I push the pedals”: ibid., Kalinichenko letters, 20 Feb. 1944.
“Maybe you should”: AI Beavers, Armageddon files.
“I always believed that women”: AI Harris, 14 Oct. 1976, Bomber Command files.
Air Vice-Marshal Edward: AI Addison, Bomber Command files.
“It’s bloody rubbish”: AI Owen, Bomber Command files.
“I was young”: AI von Joest, Armageddon files.
“I am … almost”: Koa Wing, p. 94, 17 June 1941.
“I did not want to”: ibid., p. 104, 7 Oct. 1941.
“one of the happiest”: ibid., p. 248, 31 Dec. 1944.
“Hostel life has changed”: ibid., p. 257, 31 March 1945.
“Honey, it’s pitiful”: Fennema MS, Armageddon files.
“The war has shaken”: Pisma S Ognennogo Rubezha, 1 July 1943.
“I would sometimes”: Mafai, p. 177.
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