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877 “The cycle is simple”: Quoted in Hastings, Das Reich, pp. 148–49.
878 “Other evidence exists that maquis violence was widely condemned”: Julian Jackson, France, p. 534 and passim.
879 “I think the dropping of men”: AHB/1D3/1588, quoted in M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (HMSO, 1966), p. 153.
880 “Nobody who did not experience it can possibly imagine”: Sweet-Escott, p. 73.
881 “I was disturbed … by the lack of security”: Chandos, p. 239.
882 “Many French people”: Hastings, Das Reich, passim, interviews by the author.
883 A whimsical November 1941 proposal: Astley and Wilkinson, p. 117.
884 “He believed that all his geese”: Hastings, Das Reich, p. 35.
885 “There is no doubt that, in this critical phase”: Mackenzie, p. 415.
886 German records, by contrast, reveal only thirty-five killed: Hastings, Das Reich, p. 278.
887 “In the history of France”: Julian Jackson, France, p. 387.
888 “of seething factions, who would turn to whoever would give them most support”: BNA, CAB99/28.
889 “How pleased I shall be to return to civilisation again”: Quoted in Bailey, Wildest Province, p. 134.
890 “No one is ever free from the struggle for existence”: Quoted in Mackenzie, p. 486, May 26, 1944.
891 As so often in occupied Europe, political and military objectives: Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece, passim.
892 “I am very impressed, and oppressed and depressed”: IWM, audio archive, quoted in Bailey, ed., Forgotten Voices, p. 250.
893 “pundits overestimated what guerrillas could achieve”: Annan, p. 75.
894 “Armed resistance in the open countryside”: Hammond, p. 180.
895 “But by that time, certainly in the case of EAM and ELAS”: Bailey, ed., Forgotten Voices, p. 251.
896 “Self-organised bands … are already getting out of hand”: Quoted in Molony, vol. 6, pt. 3, p. 210.
897 “A Resistance movement may suddenly transfer itself”: Ibid.
898 Michael Howard, a historian of British wartime strategic deception: See Howard, 5:135–55.
899 “Deakin was outstandingly intelligent”: Djilas, p. 253.
900 “we of course felt honoured”: Ibid., p. 368.
901 “The British had no choice”: Ibid., p. 348.
902 “It is a little doubtful whether the Missions”: Mackenzie, p. 434.
903 “the difficulty is that with … the universal listening”: Macmillan, p. 445, May 1 through 23, 1944.
904 “I have come to the conclusion”: BNA, PREM4/381C/341 and 4/369/438, December 19, 1944.
905 “Paradoxically, British influence on Resistance in Europe”: CAC, Deakin Papers, A Note on Resistance MS, DEAK16, p. 25.
906 “He wished and believed it possible to bring about a situation”: War Cabinet paper, quoted in Mackenzie, p. 612.
907 “Only in the USSR did German counter-terror fail”: Mazower, Hitler’s Empire, p. 485.
908 “It was only just worth it”: To the author, interview, March 4, 1980.
909 “The game was not worth pursuing”: Mackenzie, p. 483.
910 Gubbins was even rash enough: Astley and Wilkinson, p. 202.
911 “Moreover, in our desire to attack the Germans”: Macmillan, p. 545, October 9, 1944.
912 “gave a damning account”: Colville, p. 581, April 3, 1945.
913 “The occupied nations believed with passion”: CAC, Deakin Papers, DEAK16, p. 24.
914 “If war, carried out”: Thomas Arnold, Lectures on Modern History (Longman, 1874), pp. 160–61.
915 David Reynolds notes the remarkable fact that: Reynolds, In Command, p. 175.
916 “‘Setting Europe ablaze’ had proved a damp squib”: Ibid., p. 176.
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917 “It’s not the hard work, it’s the hard worry”: Dalton, p. 714, April 29, 1944.
918 “Spirits remain at a low level”: BNA, INF1/293.
919 “Considerable disquiet”: Nicholas, ed., p. 345.
920 “We discussed … how best”: Brooke, p. 533, March 21, 1944.
921 “Until the invasion”: USAMHI, Carlisle, OCMH Forrest Pogue notes of 1947 interview with Morgan for The Supreme Command.
922 “Difficulties again with our American”: Brooke, p. 537, April 5, 1944.
923 “This battle has been forced upon us”: Cadogan, p. 621, April 19, 1944.
924 “preferred to roll up Europe from the south-east”: BNA, CAB99/28.
925 “Struck by how very tired