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773 “It would be wrong to belittle the importance of allied military”: Pravda, August 6, 1943.
774 “Even such help was serviceable to us”: Chuev, p. 39.
775 “I think I may claim to know the mind of our workers”: BNA, INF1/220.
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: SUNK IN THE AEGEAN
776 “his jumbonic majesty”: Macmillan, p. 425, April 19, 1944.
777 “Good. This is a time to play high”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:182.
778 He believed, probably rightly, that their functions: Brooke, p. 185, September 25, 1941.
779 “was clearly affected by the delay”: Wilson dispatches, 1946, quoted in Holland, p. 33.
780 “It is pretty clear in my mind”: Brooke, p. 458, October 6, 1943.
781 “He is excited about Kos”: Cadogan, p. 565, October 7, 1943.
782 “I have never wished to send an army into the Balkans”: Kimball, 2:498.
783 “worth at least up to a first-class division”: BNA, FO954/32.
784 “I am slowly becoming convinced that in his old age”: Brooke, p. 459, October 8, 1943.
785 “I propose … to tell Gen. Wilson that he is free”: BNA, FO954/32.
786 “It does seem amazing that the PM”: Kennedy diary, LHA, October 13, 1943.
787 “We are being pressed”: Tedder, With Prejudice, p. 484.
788 “the price we were paying [for Leros was] too great”: Ibid., October 28, 1943.
789 “a very nasty problem, Middle East [Command]”: Brooke, p. 464, October 28, 1943.
790 “The enemy had boldly discounted”: Roskill, War at Sea, vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 202.
791 “Lack of RAF support absolutely pitiful”: IWM, LRDG 2/3.
792 “As the battle progressed, it was evident that the enemy”: Holland, p. 135.
793 “We were amazed to see groups of British soldiers”: Rogers, p. 203.
794 “The Germans moved quickly from one position to another”: Holland, p. 148.
795 At midnight on November 14: Bennett, p. 398, appendix 13.
796 “I much regret not to see you tonight”: Quoted in Tedder, p. 485.
797 “One would have thought that some of the bitter lessons”: Ibid., p. 486.
798 “I am still strongly of the opinion that Leros”: Cunningham, p. 582.
799 “Bad news of Leros”: Cadogan, p. 576, November 16, 1943.
800 “The fall of Leros should be a reminder”: Times (London), November 24, 1943.
801 “CIGS feels that the war may have been lengthened”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 7, 1943.
802 Likewise, the British official historian seems mistaken: Molony, 5:541.
803 “Am still grieving over Leros etc”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 485, November 21, 1943.
804 “the most acute difference I ever had with General Eisenhower”: Churchill, Second World War, 5:199.
805 “and if they were disregarded it was because other reasons”: Ibid., 5:198–99.
806 “All the British were against me”: Pogue, Marshall: Organizer of Victory, p. 307.
807 “I cannot pretend to have an adequate defence of what occurred”: Soames, ed., Speaking, p. 487, November 26, 1943.
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808 “His ear is so sensitively tuned”: Foot, p. 326.
809 “Mr. Churchill did not like to give his time to anything”: Eden, p. 441.
810 “The red and gold dressing gown”: Brooke, p. 223, January 27, 1942.
811 “and that it was really too much to go into detailed questions at the moment”: Dalton, p. 676, November 30, 1943.
812 “remind the Turkey that Christmas was coming”: Brooke, p. 467, November 3, 1943.
813 “Why break off the handle of the jug”: Ibid., p. 468, November 8, 1943.
814 “Trying to maintain good relations”: Ibid., p. 516, January 24, 1944.
815 Adam Tooze’s important research: Tooze, p. 625 and passim.
816 “In an expansive moment Winston told us”: Dalton, p. 947, October 18, 1943.
817 “We were greeted by her owner”: Macmillan, p. 293, November 15, 1943.
818 “From the street below came a great hubbub of voices”: Moran, pp. 156–57, November 18, 1943.
819 “We have now crystallised our ideas”: Kennedy diary, LHA, November 7, 1943.
820 “The PM’s stock is not high”: Pownall, 2:119.
821 “The pattern of battle”: Fred Majdalany, Cassino: Portrait of a Battle (Cassell, 1999), p. 33.
822 “Winston is getting”: Macmillan, p. 304, November 25, 1943.
823 This caused Eden