by Lynne Olson
“eavesdropping in a French café”: Ibid.
“the very soul of French wit”: Ibid., 161.
“If only you”: Briggs, The War of Words, 230.
“I want to be understood”: Ibid., 228.
“C’est moi”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983), 855.
“Every word you said”: Ibid., 857.
“We are going to hear”: Lean, Voices in the Darkness, 152.
“the father of our defeat”: Jane Baldwin, Michel Saint-Denis and the Shaping of the Modern Actor (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 103.
“Tonight,” he told his listeners: Herman Bodson, Downed Allied Airmen and Evasion of Capture: The Role of Local Resistance Networks in World War II (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), 35.
“a multitude of little Vs”: Briggs, The War of Words, 334.
“an avalanche of Vs”: Ibid., 335.
“not a single empty space”: Ibid.
“Il ne faut pas”: Lean, Voices in the Darkness, 187.
“the first pan-European gesture”: Hickman, What Did You Do in the War, Auntie?, 122.
“surrounded by an immense crowd”: Ibid.
“a symbol of the unconquerable”: Briggs, The War of Words, 340.
“the intellectual invasion”: Ibid., 334.
“Soon, perhaps”: Ibid., 341.
“The [French] underground movement”: Lean, Voices in the Darkness, 149.
“virtually the entire working population”: Louis de Jong, The Netherlands and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 45.
“desire an anti-Nazi revolution”: Briggs, The War of Words, 235.
“great uprising”: Ibid.
“Every patriot a saboteur”: Ibid., 236.
“the unknown soldiers”: Lean, Voices in the Darkness, 190.
“When the British Government gives”: Briggs, The War of Words, 337.
“encourage, develop”: Ibid.
“Silly people”: Ibid., 336.
“Many speak of revolt”: Ibid.
“We were not”: Hickman, What Did You Do in the War, Auntie?, 120.
CHAPTER 10: SPYING ON THE NAZIS
“the finest in the world”: Christopher Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (New York: Viking, 1986), p. 448.
“a young man”: Robert Erskine Childers, The Riddle of the Sands (London: Smith, Elder and Co.), 33.
“practically every [SOE] officer”: David Stafford, The Silent Game: The Real World of Imaginary Spies (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991), 58.
“the supreme country”: Ibid., 108.
“ready to aid”: Callum MacDonald, The Killing of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, May 27, 1942 (London: Macmillan, 1989), 20–21.
“the British Secret Service”: Walter Schellenberg, The Labyrinth: Memoirs of Walter Schellenberg (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956), 83.
“minds untainted”: Christopher Andrew, “Introduction,” in The Missing Dimension: Governments and Intelligence Communities in the Twentieth Century, ed. Christopher Andrew and David Dilks (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1984), 9.
“these metropolitan young gentlemen”: Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 461.
“by and large pretty stupid”: Ibid.
“there was no need”: Ibid., 9.
“only people with foreign names”: Anthony Cave Brown, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 131.
“He was not”: Patrick Howarth, Intelligence Chief Extraordinary: The Life of the Ninth Duke of Portland (London: Bodley Head, 1986), 115.
“a most unpleasant man”: Ben Macintyre, Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies (New York: Crown, 2012), 44.
“eyes of a hyperactive ferret”: Ibid.
“Everyone was scared”: Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (New York: Viking, 1985), 12.
“an utter shit”: Ibid.
“nothing should ever”: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. 2: The Infernal Grove (London: Collins, 1973), 122.
“Secrecy,” Muggeridge recalled: Ibid., 123.
“the conspiracies of self-protection”: Stafford, The Silent Game, 205–6.
“never been a spy”: Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 378–79.
“lamentably weak”: Nelson D. Lankford, OSS Against the Reich: The World War II Diaries of Col. David K. E. Bruce (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1991), 125.
“Nefertiti-like beauty and charm”: Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, Noah’s Ark: A Memoir of Struggle and Resistance (New York: Dutton, 1972), 9.
“letting women run anything”: M.R.D. Foot and J. L. Langley, MI9: Escape and Evasion, 1939–1945 (London: Biteback Publishing, 2011), 80.
“The Poles had”: Douglas Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze: Some Account of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Windlesham, UK: Springwood, 1983), 40.
“they have the best”: Jan Stanisław Ciechanowski et al., eds., Rejewski: Living with the Enigma Secret (Bydgoszcz, Poland: Bydgoszcz City Council, 2005), 174.
“With generations of clandestine action”: Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze, 182.
“If you live”: Read and Fisher, Colonel Z, 278.
“the amount of information”: Schellenberg, The Labyrinth, 99.
“One always has”: Ibid., 137.
“a man who lives”: Macintyre, Double Cross, 34.
“the boss will be a Pole”: Ibid., 37.
“It was thanks to Ultra”: Brown, “C,” 671.
“Intelligence did not decide”: Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 487.
“would never have gotten”: Gordon Welchman, The Hut Six Story (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), 305.
“a bit of a character”: Mavis Batey, Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas (London: Biteback Publishing, 2011), Kindle edition, loc. 1435.
“stony silence”: Robin Denniston, Thirty Secret Years: A. G. Denniston’s Work in Signals Intelligence, 1914–1944 (Worcestershire, UK: Polperro Heritage Press, 2012), Kindle edition, loc. 2062.
“It was only”: Ibid.
“very slow to admit”: Ibid.
“grasped everything”: Batey, Dilly, Kindle edition, loc. 1512.
“He can’t stand it”: Ciechanowski, Rejewski, 236.
“Marian and Dilly”: Ibid., 69.
“became his own bright self”: Denniston, Thirty Secret Years, Kindle edition, loc. 2091.
“Nous marchons ensemble”: Batey, Dilly, Kindle edition, loc. 1512.
“Serdeznie dzie˛juje˛”: Władysław Kozaczuk, Enigma: How the German Machine Cipher Was Broken, and How It Was Read by the Allies in World War Two (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1984), 60.
“Polish treasure trove”: Batey, Dilly, Kindle edition, loc. 1569.
“of almost unbelievably high quality”: Tessa Stirling, Daria Nałęcz, and Tadeusz Dubicki, eds., Intelligence Cooperation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II (London: Valentine Mitchell, 2005), 70.
“As ‘C’ quickly saw”: Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, 128.
“He would not have”: Howarth, Intelligence Chief Extraordinary, 115.
“golden eggs”: Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, 449.
“The experience of these men”: Christine Large, Hijacking Enigma (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2003), 248.
“profited gratuitously”: Kozaczuk, Enigma, 59.
CHAPTER 11: “MAD HATTER’S TEA PARTY”
“We shall aid”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 6: Finest Hour, 1939–1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983), 1109.
“the slave lands”: Christopher Andrew, Her Majesty’s Secret Service: The Making of the British Intelligence Community (New York: Viking, 1986), 476.
“Only a country”: Eve Curie, Journey Among Warriors (New York: Doubleday, 1943), 173.
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nbsp; “was not prepared”: John Keegan, ed., Churchill’s Generals (London: Cassell, 2007), Kindle edition, loc. 212.
“Fear never abated”: Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944 (New York: Little, Brown, 2014), 299.
“only the Poles”: David Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, 1940–1945 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1980), Kindle edition, loc. 693.
“The French have no experience”: M.R.D. Foot, SOE in France: An Account of the Work of the British Special Operations Executive in France, 1940–1944 (London: HMSO, 1966), 120.
“For [people] who”: Margaret Collins Weitz, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940–1945 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996), 285.
“people pass by”: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 265.
“an ungentlemanly body”: Foot, SOE in France, 29.
“I think that”: Ibid., 140.
“the bastards of Broadway”: Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941–45 (Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2013), 147.
“full-scale and dangerous brawls”: Anthony Cave Brown, “C”: The Secret Life of Sir Stewart Graham Menzies (New York: Macmillan, 1987), 333.
“Though SOE and MI6”: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. 2: The Infernal Grove (London: Collins, 1973), 174.
“to discourage the Poles”: Terry Charman, “Hugh Dalton, Poland and SOE: 1940–42,” in Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War, ed. Mark Seaman (London: Routledge, 2006), 70.
“Of course, it was amateurish”: David Stafford, Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003), 44.
“I work for a”: Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide, 313.
“Underground warfare was”: Stafford, Britain and European Resistance, Kindle edition, loc. 619.
“Entry into SOE”: Foot, SOE in France, 40.
“The idea that I”: Roderick Bailey, Forgotten Voices in the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War (London: Ebury Press, 2008), Kindle edition, loc. 691.
“The name SOE”: Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War (London: Arrow, 2010), 49.
“Even hardened Norwegians”: Stafford, Secret Agent, 107.
“at the sorts of things”: Jenkins, A Pacifist at War, 60.
“that was pretty useless”: Ibid.
“very severe”: Ibid.
“Oh, I love your shoes”: Bailey, Forgotten Voices in the Secret War, Kindle edition, loc. 1703.
“absolutely appalling”: Christopher J. Murphy, Security and Special Operations: SOE and MI5 During the Second World War (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 8.
“a sensitive, somewhat dreamy girl”: Foot, SOE in France, 337.
“tends to give far”: Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets: Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII (New York: Anchor, 2007), 12–13.
“if this girl’s an agent”: Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide, 311.
“the amateurish way”: H. J. Giskes, London Calling North Pole (London: William Kimber, 1953), 10.
CHAPTER 12: FACTIONS, FEUDS, AND INFIGHTING
“almost ready”: Richard Petrow, The Bitter Years: The Invasion and Occupation of Denmark and Norway, April 1940–May 1945 (New York: William Morrow, 1974), 122.
“discouragement and disheartenment”: Joseph Lash, Roosevelt and Churchill, 1939–1941: The Partnership That Saved the West (New York: W. W. Norton, 1976), 312.
“We are in that”: Sir Alexander Cadogan, The Diaries of Sir Alexander Cadogan, 1938–1945, ed. David Dilks (New York: Putnam, 1971), 374.
“perfect example”: Petrow, The Bitter Years, 123.
“a military Sunday school”: Ibid., 124.
“the horrors of German reprisals”: Ibid., 128.
“Political émigrés”: Josef Korbel, Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia: The Meanings of Its History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 184.
“Intrigues flourished”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), 172.
“They lived in a world”: Ibid., 105.
“For the British”: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 324–25.
“In time, all realized”: Arnfinn Moland, “Milorg and SOE,” in Britain and Norway in the Second World War, ed. Patrick Salmon (London: HMSO, 1995), 146.
“unshakable courage and resolution”: Tim Greve, Haakon VII of Norway: Founder of a New Monarchy (London, Hurst, 1985), 183.
“We are all”: Ibid.
“Goodbye”: Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange, 122.
“to meet people”: H. R. H. Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Lonely but Not Alone (London: Hutchinson, 1960), 86.
“For the Queen”: Henri van der Zee, The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland, 1944–45 (London: Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1982), 94–95.
“The simplest sailor”: Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange, 171.
“suffocating in the porridge”: Ibid., 106.
“really too busy”: Ibid.
“Instead of unbalanced adventurers”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, In Pursuit of Life (Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2003), 98.
“the focal point”: Ibid., 99.
“people would laugh”: Wilhelmina, Lonely but Not Alone, 38.
“I got the impression”: Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange, 128.
“Everyone in Holland”: Ibid., 129.
“The men of Munich”: R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Comes the Reckoning (London: Putnam, 1947), 60.
“This must be put right”: Ibid., 115.
“Extreme weakness”: Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 261.
“I am no man’s subordinate”: Ibid., 267.
“All the French émigrés”: Harold Nicolson, The War Years, Diaries & Letters, 1939–1945, ed. Nigel Nicolson (New York: Atheneum, 1967), 112.
“One had to be”: Dorothy Shipley White, Seeds of Discord: De Gaulle, Free France, and the Allies (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1964), 95.
“We were constantly”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 253.
“a loaded pistol”: White, Seeds of Discord, 178.
“the worst muddles”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), 98.
“the lowest depths”: Ibid., 102.
“no intention whatever”: Ibid.
“After Dakar”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 278.
“I do not think”: Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle, 138.
“He felt it was”: Ibid., 116.
“He has clearly”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 305.
“De Gaulle’s attitude”: John Colville, The Fringes of Power: 10 Downing Street Diaries, 1939–1955 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), 432.
“A genuine feeling”: Wilhelmina, Lonely but Not Alone, 185.
CHAPTER 13: “RICH AND POOR RELATIONS”
“financially and socially beyond reproach”: Noel F. Busch, “Ambassador Biddle,” Life, Oct. 4, 1943.
“old sport” or “old boy”: A. J. Liebling, “The Omnibus Diplomat,” part 1, New Yorker, June 6, 1942.
“One rather expects”: Ibid.
“previous career”: Busch, “Ambassador Biddle.”
“notable for their”: Ibid.
“In five years”: A. J. Liebling, “The Omnibus Diplomat,” part 2, New Yorker, June 13, 1942.
“the greatest disaster”: Robert E. Sherwood, Roosevelt and Hopkins: An Intimate History (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948), 501.
“Papa is at a very”: Mary Soames, Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 415.
“The United Nations”: Franklin D. Roosevelt, national radio broadcast, Feb. 23, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, NY.
“if the concept”: Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski et al.
, eds., Rejewski: Living with the Enigma Secret (Bydgoszcz, Poland: Bydgoszcz City Council, 2005), 128.
“have any territorial”: Valentin Berezhkov, “Stalin and FDR,” in Cornelis van Minnen and John F. Sears, eds., FDR and His Contemporaries: Foreign Perceptions of an American President (New York: St. Martin’s, 1992), 50.
“can’t live together”: Oliver Lyttelton, The Memoirs of Lord Chandos: An Unexpected View from the Summit (New York: New American Library, 1963), 296–97.
“He allowed his thoughts”: Ibid., 297.
“He seemed to see himself”: Anthony Eden, The Reckoning (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), 432.
“There is no France”: “The Presidency: There Is No France,” Time, July 19, 1943.
“who had escaped”: Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 335.
“convinced”: Wallace Carroll, Persuade or Perish (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948), 103.
“must be given no role”: Lynne Olson, Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Finest, Darkest Hour (New York: Random House, 2010), 220.
“France without an Army”: Lord Moran, Churchill at War, 1940–45 (New York: Carroll & Graf, 2002), 88.
“You will remember”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 248.
“I am still sorry”: Ibid., 249.
“the gravity of the affront”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 396.
“French leaders”: Kersaudy, Churchill and Roosevelt, 220.
“the ungracious attitude”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 329–30.
“I don’t understand you!”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), 23.
“these words made”: Ibid.
“There was no other”: Margaret Collins Weitz, Sisters in the Resistance: How Women Fought to Free France, 1940–1945 (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1996), 266.
“exemplary, amiable and helpful”: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 265.
“I lower my head”: Ibid.
“grew as naturally”: Janet Teissier du Cros, Divided Loyalties (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964), 241.
