202 Everyone was disappointed: Ibid., 36.
202 “We transformed our hotel suite into a tribunal”: Ibid., 59.
203 processing uranium was precisely: Ibid., 246ff.
203 “proved definitively that Germany had no”: Ibid., 69.
204 “thorium oxide”: Ibid., 64–65; see also Eric Zorn, “Whiter Days Ahead for Pepsodent?,” Chicago Tribune, June 15, 2007, http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2007/06/whiter_days_ahe.html.
204 “were for conspicuous bravery in riding”: Thomas, “Wardenburg,” A8. He was made Member of the Order of the British Empire and awarded the Medal of Freedom from the United States, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
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207 Fewer than two thousand: Webster, “Vichy Policy on Jewish Deportation.”
208 A typhus epidemic: Moorehead, Martha Gellhorn, 282.
208 “Behind the wire and the electric fence”: Ibid.
208 “This man had survived”: Ibid.
208 “It is as if I walked into Dachau”: Ibid.
209 Ernest Hemingway invited: Spoto, Blue Angel, 202–3.
211 “Part 1. This is a community effort”: Kershaw, Blood and Champagne, 159.
211 “I hope you have enough money”: Ibid.
212 Charles de Gaulle forbade British: Martin Gilbert, The Day the War Ended: May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe (London: Henry Holt, 1996).
212 the newest residents on the Place Vendôme: Irving, Göring, 86. See also Christopher John Dodd and Lary Bloom, Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice (New York: Crown, 2008).
212 “Paris,” he wrote: Dodd and Blom, Letters from Nuremberg, 65.
213 “Do you want me to tell you the set-up?”: Jacques Baraduc, Dans la cellule de Pierre Laval (Paris: Éditions Self, 1948), 31.
214 Gellhorn at last discovered: Moorehead, Martha Gellhorn, 290.
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217 “The two people who have caused me”: Hugo Vickers, “The People Who Caused Me the Most Trouble Were Wallis Simpson and Hitler,” Mail Online, March 26, 2011, www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1370242/Queen-Mother-The-people-caused-trouble-Wallis-Simpson-Hitler.html#ixzz2SWSigJs.
219 “the Duke of Windsor was labeled”: Robert Gottlieb, “Duke, Duchess and Jimmy D.: Question Time for the Windsors,” New York Observer, May 3, 2001, http://observer.com/2001/03/duke-duchess-and-jimmy-d-question-time-for-the-windors; see also Christopher Wilson, Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2002), 2–3.
219 “I now quit altogether public affairs”: Christopher Wilson, “Revealed: The Duke and Duchess of Windsor’s Secret Plot to Deny the Queen the Throne,” Telegraph, November 22, 2009, www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/6624594/Revealed-the-Duke-and-Duchess-of-Windsors-secret-plot-to-deny-the-Queen-the-throne.html.
220 recently discovered in private royal correspondence: Ibid.
221 “There should be a rigid refusal”: Ibid.
221 “walking with death”: Gottlieb, “Question Time for the Windsors.”
223 “I knew it was physical”: Wilson, Dancing with the Devil, 3.
223 “She was in love with him”: Ibid.
223 “No one,” one aristocratic onlooker put it: Caroline Blackwood, The Last of the Duchess: The Strange and Sinister Story of the Final Years of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (New York: Vintage, 2012), 259.
224 “He was an alcoholic, he was a drug taker”: Ibid.
224 Guinness beer fortune, Aileen Plunket: Gottlieb, “Question Time for the Windsors.”
225 “I never thought Hitler was such a bad chap”: Lord Kinross, “Love Conquers All,” Books and Bookmen 20 (1974): 5.
225 an aging Marlene Dietrich came down: John Lichfield, “In Wallis’s Footsteps: The Holiday Home by Royal Appointment,” Independent, March 25, 2010, http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/in-walliss-footsteps-the-holiday-home-by-royal-appointment-192878.html.
225 In Coco Chanel’s suite: Lynn Karpen, “Chanel, No. 1,” New York Times, November 15, 1998, www.nytimes.com/1998/11/15/books/books-in-brief-nonfiction-chanel-no-1.html?src=pm.
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227 “There are still scars on Paris”: Dodd, letter of August 4, 1945, 65.
229 “insurrection, there is no other word for it”: Joseph Carroll, “Paris Gripped by Insurrection,” Guardian, May 26, 1968, http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,106493,00.html.
230 “We have lost twelve steady customers”: Marx, Queen of the Ritz, 195.
231 “If you are lucky enough”: Quoted in Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (New York: Scribner, 1996), jacket material.
231 a notebook the writer found: There is a significant scholarly debate on the history and contents of Ernest Hemingway’s trunk of papers left at the Hôtel Ritz. On the various positions in the debate, see A. E. Hotchner, “Don’t Touch A Moveable Feast,” New York Times, July 19, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/07/20/opinion/20hotchner.html?_r=3, and Tavernier-Courbin, Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, 3–19.
233 Now, she was having blackouts: Marx, Queen of the Ritz, 197.
233 only the thinnest crescent of the new moon: Ibid., 199–200.
Afterword
236 The price tag for the remodeling: Mohamed Al Fayed, personal website, www.alfayed.com/biography.aspx.
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