by Lynne Olson
“as deafening as”: Jones, Most Secret War, 351.
“so sited”: Ibid.
“this extraordinary report”: Ibid., 354.
“one of the most effective”: David Ignatius, “After Five Decades, a Spy Tells Her Tale,” Washington Post, Dec. 28, 1998.
“teased them”: Ibid.
“had a far-reaching influence”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 5: Closing the Ring (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951), 207.
“Were the Germans able”: Stirling, Nałęcz, and Dubicki, eds., Intelligence Cooperation Between Poland and Great Britain, 476.
“The man going home”: Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 39.
“as impersonal”: Angus Calder, The People’s War: Britain, 1939–1945 (New York: Pantheon, 1969), 560.
“aerial shooting gallery”: Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (New York: Knopf, 2003), 330.
“Although we could do”: Churchill, Triumph and Tragedy, 53.
“excellence” and “gallantry”: Ibid., 49.
“lonesomeness”: Jones, Most Secret War, xiv.
“We have been working”: R. V. Jones, Reflections on Intelligence (London: Heinemann, 1989), 218.
“A substantial proportion”: Jones, Most Secret War, 346.
“a self-propelled projectile”: Jones, Reflections on Intelligence, 43.
“We will go”: Sarah Helm, Ravensbrück: Life and Death in Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women (New York: Doubleday, 2015), 426.
“to stir up old memories”: Jones, Most Secret War, xiv.
“a great personal experience”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 19: “A FORMIDABLE SECRET ARMY”
“YOU ARE TRYING”: H. J. Giskes, London Calling North Pole (London: William Kimber, 1953), 135.
“would gladly have murdered me”: Patrick Howarth, Intelligence Chief Extraordinary: The Life of the Ninth Duke of Portland (London: Bodley Head, 1986), 175.
“supreme objective”: Giskes, London Calling North Pole, 146.
“Despite severe setbacks”: Ibid., 139–40.
“Drops of agents”: Ibid., 147.
“a highly efficient espionage organization”: Ibid., 150.
“To a greater extent”: Werner Warmbrunn, The Dutch Under German Occupation 1940-1945 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1983), 120.
“In parts of Belgium”: Giskes, London Calling North Pole, 154.
“Well, of course”: 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. 3228.
“There was no shadow”: Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War (London: Arrow, 2010), 102.
“We thank you”: Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941–45 (Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2013), 521.
“I knew that”: Bailey, Forgotten Voices, Kindle edition, loc. 3415.
“Without Churchill”: 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), 352.
“a man of the Scarlet”: David Stafford, Churchill and Secret Service (London: John Murray, 1997), 277.
“Like de Gaulle”: Ibid.
“Brave and desperate men”: Ibid.
“After Churchill”: Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide, 29.
“Tommy was always prepared”: Ibid.
“Our present puny efforts”: Stafford, Churchill and Secret Service, 278.
“carry messages”: Ibid.
“From January 1944”: Foot, SOE in France, 356.
“By now, France”: Philippe de Vomécourt, An Army of Amateurs (New York: Doubleday, 1961), 176.
“These are very difficult”: Jenkins, A Pacifist at War, 119.
“No one man”: de Vomécourt, An Army of Amateurs, 184–85.
CHAPTER 20: “THE POOR LITTLE ENGLISH DONKEY”
“lived by faith”: Jan Nowak, Courier from Warsaw (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), 104.
“the ideals”: Ibid., 105.
“a rage I could”: Ibid., 268.
“the forcible transfer”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 17.
“found it convenient”: Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2004), 508–9.
“go[ing] to the peace conference”: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, vol. 3, 1943, 15.
“Here I sat”: Paul D. Mayle, Eureka Summit: Agreement in Principle and the Big Three at Tehran (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1987), 24.
“I am the leader”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 646.
“As long as I live”: Edward Raczyński, In Allied London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), 141.
“the only line of safety”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 389.
“Force is on Russia’s side”: Allen Paul, Katyn: The Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre (New York: Scribner’s, 1991), 222.
“This is the end of Poland”: “Władysław Sikorski,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_Sikorski.
“He was unmistakably”: William Mackenzie, The Secret History of S.O.E.: Special Operations Executive, 1940-1945 (London: St. Ermin’s Press, 2000), 312.
“regarded Sikorski”: Ibid., 164.
“a tremendous impact”: Raczyński, In Allied London, 150.
“was the only man”: Harold Nicolson, The War Years, Diaries & Letters, 1939–1945, ed. Nigel Nicolson (New York: Atheneum, 1967), 303.
“the Soviets didn’t want”: Harvey Sarner, General Anders and the Soldiers of the Second Polish Corps (Cathedral City, CA: Brunswick Press, 1997), 155.
“with the Russians”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 671.
“Neither SOE nor”: E.D.R. Harrison, “The British Special Operations Executive and Poland,” Historical Journal, Dec. 2000.
“make-believe joint planning”: Peter Wilkinson, Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative (London: I. B. Tauris, 1997), 124.
“the desirability of preparing”: Michael Alfred Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), 106.
“the time is fast approaching”: Ibid., 110.
“the Czechs would have found”: Marcia Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy (New York: Pocket Books, 1969), 273.
“has been and is now”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), 288.
“this vain and even malignant man”: Ibid., 275.
“we would not only”: Ibid., 279.
“I am reaching the point”: Ibid., 291.
“An open clash”: Dwight David Eisenhower, Crusade in Europe (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 248.
“The prime minister”: Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle, 338–39.
“We are going to liberate”: Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), 557.
“I did not like”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 1083.
“treason at the height”: Lacouture, De Gaulle, 524.
“FDR’s pique”: Jean Edward Smith, FDR (New York: Random House, 2007), 616.
“in deathly silence”: R. H. Bruce Lockhart, Comes the Reckoning (London: Putnam, 1947), 304.
“Without a trace”: Ibid.
“I’ll have trouble”: Ibid.
CHAPTER 21: SETTLING THE SCORE
“but the opening phase”: Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. 3: The War of Words (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), 597.
“In the undergrowth”: Ibid., 405–6.
“You make up a short message”: Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War, 1941–45 (Stroud, UK: The History Press, 2013), 487.
“That was the first manifestation”: Roderick Bailey, For
gotten Voices in the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War (London: Ebury Press, 2008), Kindle edition, loc. 1781.
“active resisters were”: Ibid., loc. 3044.
“the entire French railway system”: 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), 408.
“among the most formidable”: Max Hastings, Das Reich: The March of the 2nd Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (London: Zenith Press, 2013), 222.
“They surrounded the Germans”: Foot, SOE in France, 408.
“in a state”: Ibid.
“must immediately pass”: Hastings, Das Reich, 88.
“obsession with retaining”: Ibid., 39.
“politically impossible”: Ibid., 74.
“Not even the most”: Ibid., 75.
“They burned, pillaged and killed”: Philippe de Vomécourt, An Army of Amateurs (New York: Doubleday, 1961), 14.
“a foolish”: Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War (London: Arrow, 2010), 153.
“never had a chance”: Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (New York: Picador, 2013), 197.
“the underwater obstacles”: Douglas Porch, The French Secret Services: From the Dreyfus Affair to the Gulf War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995), 558.
“the Allies had never”: Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (New York: Atheneum, 1976), 439.
“the shopkeepers”: Ibid., 436.
“the resistance reduced”: Foot, SOE in France, 441.
“yapping at their heels”: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 535.
“What the resistance achieved”: David Stafford, Secret Agent: The True Story of the Covert War Against Hitler (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2003), 239.
“of inestimable value”: Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940–1944 (New York: Little, Brown, 2014), 273.
“In no previous war”: Foot, SOE in France, 441.
“showed as never before”: Porch, The French Secret Services, 258.
“One may ask”: Ibid., 263.
“in the end”: Ibid., 262.
“necessary myth”: Ibid., 263.
“de Gaulle had to convince”: Ibid.
“If there had been”: Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 537.
“a Resistance myth”: Ibid., 535.
“In recent years”: Airey Neave, Saturday at M.I.9: The Classic Account of the WWII Escape Organisation (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1969), 315.
“While its military successes”: de Vomécourt, An Army of Amateurs, 10.
“A man whose army”: Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream, 434.
CHAPTER 22: “A TALE OF TWO CITIES”
“standing at Warsaw’s gates”: Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, The Secret Army (London: Victor Gollancz, 1950), 292.
“National dignity and pride”: Stefan Korbonski, Fighting Warsaw (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1968), 347–48.
“in a world of illusion”: Wacław Jędrzejewicz, ed., Poland in the British Parliament, 1939–1945 (New York: Pilsudski Institute, 1946), 498.
“we are ready to fight”: Bór-Komorowski, The Secret Army, 206.
“completely impossible”: Ibid.
“proclaim the insurrection”: Michael Alfred Pezke, The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), 156.
“We have no choice”: Jan Nowak, Courier from Warsaw (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1982), 339.
“Every inhabitant of Warsaw”: Tadeusz Bielecki and Leszek Szymański, Warsaw Aflame: The 1939–1945 Years (Los Angeles: Polamerica Press, 1973), 137.
“From the historical point”: Ibid., 175.
“maximum effort”: Elisabeth Barker, Churchill and Eden at War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1978), 253.
“could only be provided”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 895.
“Confident of the part”: Bór-Komorowski, The Secret Army, 263.
“WHEN IN 1940”: Edward Raczyński, In Allied London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), 334.
“The Russian armies”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 871.
“the Soviet Government could not”: U.S. Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States, vol. 3, 1944, 1374.
“We intend to have Poland”: George F. Kennan, Memoirs (1925–1950) (New York: Bantam Books, 1969), 221.
“My grandfather”: Winston Churchill, speech, American Institute for Polish Culture, Miami, Jan. 28, 2001.
“Thank you”: Winston S. Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, vol. 3, ed. Warren F. Kimball (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 294.
“I suggest that he”: Jean Lacouture, De Gaulle: The Rebel, 1890–1944 (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 527.
“On the barricades”: Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, Is Paris Burning? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1965), 172.
“Tonight,” he said: Stanley Cloud and Lynne Olson, The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Front Lines of Broadcast Journalism (Boston: Mariner Books, 1996), 217.
“For five weeks”: Bielecki and Szymanski, Warsaw Aflame, 175.
“heartbreaking”: “A Tale of Two Cities,” Economist, Aug. 26, 1944.
“vastly bloodier”: Ibid.
“did not mean”: Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (New York: Knopf, 2003), 343.
“terrible and even humbling”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), 141.
“The problem of relief”: Ibid., 143–44.
“Had the containers”: Bór-Komorowski, The Secret Army, 350.
“We have been free”: Ibid., 376.
“jammed elbow to elbow”: Eric Sevareid, Not So Wild a Dream (New York: Atheneum, 1976), 472.
“had learned”: Ibid.
“We all tremble”: Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle, 373.
“magnanimous in victory”: Ibid., 357.
“it had to be seen”: Ibid., 374.
“were cheering”: Lord Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay (New York: Viking, 1960), 387.
“For you”: Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), 723.
“incontestable leader”: Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle, 384.
“We would not have seen”: Ibid., 375–76.
CHAPTER 23: “I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN”
“The joy of Paris”: Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (New York: Picador, 2013), 231.
“as much use”: Ibid., 233.
“At that moment”: Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2004), 19.
“refit, refuel, and rest”: Cornelius Ryan, A Bridge Too Far (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), Kindle edition, loc. 719.
“My excuse”: Ibid., loc. 1291.
“militarily, the war is won”: Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, 223.
“bad mistake”: Hastings, Armageddon, 21.
“It was a flight”: Henri van der Zee, The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland, 1944–45 (London: Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1982), 21.
“I wish to give”: Ibid., 18.
“The liberation”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 131.
“This is not the marriage”: “HRH Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands” (obituary), Telegraph, April 12, 2004.
“exuded an aura”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, In Pursuit of Life (Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2003), 143.
“I would have been”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 108.
“played a vital”: “HRH Prince Bernhard of the Nether
lands” (obituary), Telegraph, April 12, 2004.
“adored him”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 111.
“a major thrust”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 620.
“I don’t think”: Ibid., loc. 1001.
“Montgomery didn’t believe”: Ibid.
“I would rather”: Michael Alfred Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War II (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2005), 224–25.
“considered us a bunch”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 1013.
“I am just”: Ibid.
“obsessed with the idea”: Ibid., loc. 878.
“Monty, you’re nuts”: Ibid., loc. 1077.
“It was absolutely impossible”: Ibid., loc. 1563.
“hysterical and nervous”: “A Life in Peace and War: Conversation with Sir Brian Urquhart,” Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley, March 19, 1996.
“was the one awkward fact”: Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, 264.
“light-heartedness and inexperience”: M.R.D. Foot, Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1940–1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1990), 164.
“inability to suffer fools”: Max Arthur, “Obituary: General Sir John Hackett,” Independent, Sept.10, 1996.
“rather argumentative”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 5032.
“After harrying”: Foot, Holland at War, 164.
“But the Germans”: Ibid.
“giggling like schoolboys”: Hastings, Armageddon, 36.
“doesn’t like being told”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 6807.
“German capability”: Foot, Holland at War, 165.
“epic cock-up”: Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, 288.
“We were prepared”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 4157.
“had an outstanding force”: Ibid., loc. 5832.
“absolutely invaluable”: Foot, Holland at War, 116.
“figure of truly heroic proportions”: Ibid., 168.
“Arnhem, one of the most”: Ryan, A Bridge Too Far, Kindle edition, loc. 4125.
