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“Unfortunately the Chetniks”: ibid., p. 167.
“Look what you have”: Djilas, p. 236.
“Covered with orchards”: ibid., p. 139.
“Though quite a few”: ibid., pp. 155, 160.
“You are fighting for”: ibid., p. 170.
“All the villages”: ibid., p. 180.
“It would be immoral”: ibid., p. 197.
“They couldn’t be told”: ibid., p. 304.
“After we had been”: Diario di Guerra: Con gli Alpini in Montenegro 1941–1943 (Mursia, 2010), p. 15.
“We know, but there’s”: Djilas, p. 330.
“Why were doctors”: ibid., p. 285
“He survived the war”: ibid., p. 283.
CHAPTER NINETEEN WAR IN THE SKY
“I saw myself as”: E. P. Bone, unpublished MS, Bomber Command files.
“I experience an exhilaration”: Wellum, p. 105.
“I would not trade”: AI Dorfman, Armageddon files.
“We had all the glory”: AI Wells, Armageddon files.
“I have never spoken”: Day-Lewis, p. 81.
“Perhaps a quarter”: AI Owen, Bomber Command files.
“With the start the Germans”: AI Addison, Bomber Command files.
“[A] vital lesson”: Alexander Seversky, Victory Thru Air Power (New York, 1942), p. 73.
In the second half: see Williamson Murray, Luftwaffe (Allen & Unwin, 1985), passim.
“We learned very early”: Wooldridge, p. 196.
“A man approached death”: Ernie Pyle, V Was for Victory (New York, 1945), p. 61.
“You were resigned”: AI Bufton, Bomber Command files.
“I woke up!”: Bomber Command correspondence.
“The briefings were very”: AI Owen, Bomber Command files.
“In their efforts to”: Hastings, Bomber Command, p. 104.
“Winston’s attitude to”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“ ‘We could have kept’ ”: AI Brennan, Armageddon files.
“If you had losses”: AI Maze, Bomber Command files.
“Good bods Pyatt, Donner”: Bone MS.
“We learned to live”: John Muirhead, Those Who Fall (Random House, 1986), p. 4.
“When I asked him”: Cochrane MS, Cochrane papers.
“The wounds were superficial”: Crafter MS, Bomber Command files.
“Thirty sorties in”: Cochrane MS.
“I clearly remember”: Raynes MS, Bomber Command files.
“You joked about”: AI Owen.
“When a plane blew up”: Harry H. Crosby, A Wing and a Prayer (Robson, 1993), p. 95.
“supported as he was”: USMHI, Sir Frederick Morgan, quoted in Pogue, The Supreme Command files.
The Möhne was breached: John Sweetman, The Dambusters Raid (Arms & Armour, 1993), passim. This is the most authoritative account of the mission.
“We were told the British”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 72.
Adam Tooze has made: Tooze, p. 556 and passim.
Adam Tooze believes: ibid., p. 603.
“These raids on”: Bomber Command files.
“Hundreds of flak guns”: Potsdam Vol. 9/1, p. 391.
“Our Führer ought”: ibid., p. 382.
“often feeling that”: ibid., p. 453.
“These elements cannot”: Tooze, pp. 629–30.
“The white stripes moved”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 390.
“They were torn from”: ibid., p. 75.
“At the front of the room”: ibid., p. 427.
“a stupid, impudent”: ibid., pp. 404–5.
“For two whole hours”: Wolff-Monckeburg, p. 76, 24 Aug. 1943.
“That afternoon … I had”: Ursula Gebel, “November 1943 in Charlottenburg,” quoted in Roger Moorhouse, Berlin at War (Bodley Head, 2010), p. 323.
“We stood in the fartherest”: Klaus Schmidt, Die Brandnacht (Darmstadt, 1964), p. 91.
“There was a crash”: ibid., p. 80.
“We were all petrified”: ibid., p. 83.
“All one could see were”: ibid., p. 80.
“What a homecoming”: Metelmann, p. 180.
“I heard today that”: Ostellino, p. 268, 9 Dec. 1942.
“in at the finish”: unpublished MS, Just a Gamble, Bomber Command files.
“The planes are over”: Potsdam, Vol. 9/1, p. 468.
“Fear and panic rule”: ibid., p. 473.
“It is a reproach”: Spectator, 25 Feb. 1944.
“It all boils down to”: AI Harris, Bomber Command files.
“I have no intention”: Cochrane Papers, Harris MS.
CHAPTER TWENTY VICTIMS
“Eva’s birthday”: Klemperer, Vol. 2, p. 408.
“I was so far”: IWM 96/55/1 ZR Pomorski.
“Lice bugs bugs lice”: IWM Felicks Lachman MS 91/6/1.
“To put matters brutally”: British Library India Office Records L/PJ/8/412/319. For a vivid account of the entire Polish saga, see Matthew Kelly, Finding Poland (Cape, 2010).
“I had dressed”: IWM 06/52/1 Szmulek