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Lines 30- 34: The words of Gyth and Lunding are reproduced here as remembered by Sneum with great consistency in many interviews between 1998 and 2006.

CHAPTER 34: DEFIANCE AND LOYALTY

Note 1: Page 242, Lines 1-12: This description of Helvard’s circumstances came with the help of Tommy Sneum’s recollections and both Swedish and Danish police reports from the spring of 1942.

Note 2: Page 242, Lines 33-34: “ ... the conversation began to take a strange turn . . . ” This and subsequent events on the evening in question came to light in a letter passed to the author by Birgitte Grimley, Tulle’s daughter from her second marriage, to Eiler Berg.

Note 3: Page 244, Line 3: “Later Olsen wrote down his account . . . ” Olsen’s colourful recollections feature under the title “Med Fup og Faldskaerm”—“With Swindles and Parachutes.” It is part of an anthology edited by the Danish SOE chief Flemming B Muus in 1966 under the title “Mange er Kaldede”—“With Much Love.” Olsen was also interviewed at length for the historian Joergen Hastrup’s book, “Secret Alliance.”

Note 4: Page 244, Line 33: “The detective recalled:” The text below this line is from Olsen’s own written account, “Med Fup og Faldskaerm”—“With Swindles and Parachutes.”

Note 5: Page 246, Lines 13-27: “Duus Hansen’s account . . . ” From the official report Duus Hansen gave to the Copenhagen Rigsarkivet after the war.

CHAPTER 35: LIVING ON THE EDGE

Note 1: Page 247, Line 3: “ . . . Olsen to surround . . . ” The details of this deployment are contained in a Danish police report, a copy of which is in the author’s possession.

Note 2: Page 248, Line 15:“ . . . names of agents to the Germans.” Sneum admitted this planned threat on many different occasions during interviews with the author between 1998 and 2006. He also explained his motivations in great detail. The dialogue here is as Tommy described it to Mark Ryan during their many interviews.

Note 3: Page 250, Line 9: “ . . . said Noerreheden . . . ” The dialogue here is taken from the detailed information contained in a Danish police report on the raid and subsequent questioning. The author has a copy of the relevant documents.

Note 4: Page 251, Lines 2-19: “He recalled ....had just happened.” From Olsen’s official post-war account of his activities on behalf of the Danish Resistance.

CHAPTER 36: WALKING WITH GHOSTS

Note 1: Page 257, Line 32: “Sneum admitted:” Sneum’s extraordinary account of what happened on the Oeresund ice that night comes from the many interviews he gave author Mark Ryan between 1998 and 2006. Throughout these years his account remained consistent; and he even drew maps of his progress to illustrate his points.

CHAPTER 37: SPILLING THE BEANS

Note 1: Page 261, Line 2: “ . . . Karstengren . . . rumoured to be a Nazi.” This was Sneum’s claim to the author.

Note 2: Page 261, Line 21: “ . . . I was almost sure I would have broken down . . . ” Sneum confessed to the author on several occasions between 1998 and 2006 that he feared he would have cracked under sustained torture.

Note 3: Page 262, Lines 13-25: ‘It seems to me . . . Headquarters.’ Source: SOE Files, National Archives, Kew, London.

Note 4: Page 265, Line 21: “Thomas Norreheden led the questioning . . . ” The dialogue comes from detailed Danish police reports on the questioning of Else Sneum.

Note 5: Page 266, Line 11: “ . . . Kaj Oxlund . . . ” Details of these locker discoveries appear in a Danish police report from the spring of 1942.

CHAPTER 38: THE GAMBLE

Note 1: Page 267, Lines 8-10: “Christian Michael Rottboell . . . parachuted back into Denmark on behalf of SOE.” The SOE Files in the National Archives in Kew, London, show that Rottboell parachuted with two others, radio operators called Paul Herman Johannes Johannesen and Max Johannes Mikkelsen. They had been sailors in the Merchant Navy before joining SOE. They landed in darkness at Agersvold on Zealand on April 17.

Note 2: Page 267, Lines 16-17: “ . . . Turnbull really had no influence