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  “kind, chivalrous, even comforting”: Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, 275.

  “It was pretty dismaying”: Hastings, Armageddon, 60.

  “I still feel sick”: Barry Paris, Audrey Hepburn (New York: Berkley, 1996), Kindle edition, loc. 769.

  “the heart and center”: General Sir John Hackett, I Was a Stranger (London: Chatto & Windus, 1978), 61.

  “Thank God”: Ibid., 48.

  “passing to and fro”: Ibid., 65.

  “was now becoming”: Ibid.

  “peace and industry”: Ibid., 80.

  “It would be”: Ibid., 77.

  “it would not”: Ibid., 78.

  “Such loving kindness”: Ibid.

  “Someone in my house”: Ibid., 68.

  “the tidy gardens”: Ibid., 115.

  “this mild and unassuming woman”: Ibid., 140.

  “When these ladies”: Ibid., 82.

  “One or another”: Ibid., 116.

  “almost slinking away”: Ibid., 91.

  “the searches”: Ibid., 141.

  “Everything is well”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 136.

  “heavy stone of sadness”: Hackett, I Was a Stranger, 160.

  “rare and beautiful”: Ibid.

  “expressed their loyalty”: Foot, Holland at War, 113.

  “It was like”: Hackett, I Was a Stranger, 187–88.

  “I was still both”: Ibid., 185.

  “Good luck”: Ibid., 192.

  “Hullo, Shan”: Ibid., 196.

  “The gray goose has gone”: Ibid., 201.

  “lost three-quarters”: Hastings, Armageddon, 60.

  “The worst thing”: Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, 174.

  “Between our front”: Hastings, Armageddon, 196.

  “in order to hinder”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 29.

  “it was the most important”: Ibid.

  “Don’t worry”: Ibid., 30.

  CHAPTER 24: THE HUNGER WINTER

  “You saw them”: Henri van der Zee, The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland, 1944–45 (London: Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1982), 181.

  “You look and feel”: Ibid., 184.

  “smoking ruins and deadly silence”: Ibid., 46.

  “People with their feet torn”: Ibid., 75–76.

  “a quiet, oppressive apathy”: Ibid., 147.

  “the year of liberation”: Ibid., 87.

  “For the first time”: Ibid.

  “By March”: Janet Flanner, “Letter from Amsterdam,” New Yorker, Feb. 15, 1947.

  “Everyone tried to cook grass”: Barry Paris, Audrey Hepburn (New York: Berkley, 1996), Kindle edition, loc. 671.

  “shrunken bodies”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 158.

  “My old, beautiful, and noble”: Ibid., 209.

  “For the first time”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), 233.

  “Have you heard?”: Ibid.

  “living my self-satisfied life”: Ibid.

  “thanked God”: Ibid.

  “one of the most impressive”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 34.

  “ ‘Famine, floods’ ”: “Wreckers at Work,” Newsweek, Oct. 16, 1944.

  “all the farm hands”: Rick Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944–1945 (New York: Picador, 2013), 399.

  “calamity as has not”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 171.

  “military considerations”: Hastings, Armageddon, 412.

  “The Allies are admired”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 191.

  “I felt as if I”: H. R. H. Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Lonely but Not Alone (London: Hutchinson, 1960), 181.

  “I shall not forget”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 187.

  “I must leave this”: Ibid., 173.

  “to have Holland cleared up”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 1081.

  “this slaughter of the Dutch”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 188.

  “thorough explanation”: Ibid.

  “deep regrets”: Ibid.

  “the Anglo-Americans”: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 513.

  “wanted to shriek out loud”: Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War (London: Arrow, 2010), 157–58.

  “Terrible things”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 784.

  “had not fully realized”: Ibid., 739.

  “not prepared to impose”: Lord Ismay, The Memoirs of General Lord Ismay (New York: Viking, 1960), 349.

  “The inner door”: Atkinson, The Guns at Last Light, 555.

  “fight to the last man”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 210.

  “One has nothing”: Ibid., 229.

  “decided to leave”: Ibid., 244.

  “The Dutch must”: Ibid., 252.

  “To the Dutch people”: Ian Buruma, Year Zero: A History of 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2013), 53.

  “An old man”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 253.

  “ran outside”: Ibid., 253–54.

  “The emotion and enthusiasm”: Ibid., 254.

  “If any emotions”: Ibid., 254–55.

  “Fear was finished”: Ibid., 257.

  “We are no longer isolated”: Ibid.

  “I saw people”: Ibid., 277–78.

  “It gives me a shock”: Ibid., 278.

  “Wilhelmus of Orange”: Ibid., 276–77.

  “expressed the longing”: Ibid., 277.

  “felt about the Allies”: Ibid.

  “We have been kissed”: Buruma, Year Zero, 14.

  “On first appearance”: van der Zee, The Hunger Winter, 298.

  “The babies were tragic”: Ibid., 302.

  “We had almost”: Paris, Kindle edition, loc. 835.

  “packets of tea”: General Sir John Hackett, I Was a Stranger (London: Chatto & Windus, 1978), 209.

  “A leaden pall”: Ibid., 210.

  “looking about them”: Ibid.

  “With the certainty”: Ibid., 211.

  “whose gate”: Ibid.

  “There was no surprise”: Ibid.

  “Did you get”: Ibid.

  “the sharp cold”: Ibid., 212.

  “we sat down”: Ibid., 214.

  “What is it?”: Ibid.

  CHAPTER 25: “THERE WAS NEVER A HAPPIER DAY”

  “in keeping with”: H. R. H. Wilhelmina, Princess of the Netherlands, Lonely but Not Alone (London: Hutchinson, 1960), 227.

  “Rie, Peter, and I”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), 247.

  “she ignored it”: Ibid., 236.

  “At first, Peter”: Ibid., 241.

  “In my garden”: Ibid., 242.

  “I do not intend”: Ibid., 241.

  “Captain, this is steak”: Ibid.

  “synonymous as it was”: Ibid., 253.

  “War brought Queen Wilhelmina”: “The Woman Who Wanted a Smile,” Time, Sept. 6, 1946.

  “dangers of leaving”: Sir Peter Thorne, “Andrew Thorne and the Liberation of Norway,” in Britain and Norway in the Second World War, ed. Patrick Salmon (London: HMSO, 1995), 209.

  “It is safe to say”: Tim Greve, Haakon VII of Norway: Founder of a New Monarchy (London, Hurst, 1985), 170.

  “Everything was out of place”: Ibid., 173.

  “the most beloved personage”: “King Haakon Dead in Norway,” New York Times, Sept. 22, 1957.

  “the situation was full”: Sawyer to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, March 29, 1945, U.S. State Department Records, National Archives, Washington, DC.

  “Were he to openly back”: James H. Huizinga, Mr. Europe: A Political Biography of Paul Henri Spaak (New York: Praeger, 1961), 177.

  “It is not difficult”: Ibid., 181.

  “gratuitously covering”: Ibid., 184.

  “The question is not”: Jan Velaers and Herman Van Goethem, Leopold III (Brussels: Lannoo, 2001), 955.
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  “I have not had”: Huizinga, Mr. Europe, 209.

  CHAPTER 26: “WHY ARE YOU CRYING, YOUNG MAN?”

  “Iron Curtain of the next”: Caleb Crain, “Almost History: Plzeň, May 1991,” New York Review of Books, Aug. 21, 2013.

  “In our view”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 1322.

  “For God’s sake, Brad”: Carlo D’Este, Patton: A Genius for War (New York: HarperPerennial, 1995), 728.

  “Personally, and aside”: Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (New York: Knopf, 2004), 486.

  “We Communists”: Claire Sterling, The Masaryk Case (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 17–18.

  “No [Czech] citizen”: Josef Korbel, Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia: The Meanings of Its History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 215.

  “Thank God”: Ibid., 214.

  “without enthusiasm”: František Moravec, Master of Spies: The Memoirs of General František Moravec (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1975), 232.

  “was moving”: Ibid.

  “Beneš dealt”: Korbel, Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia, 197.

  “I asked him”: Moravec, Master of Spies, 229.

  “we had no fascists”: Ibid., 219.

  “I was treated”: Ibid., 233.

  “coming from America”: Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 6: Triumph and Tragedy (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953), 367.

  “fought like a tiger”: Robert Payne, The Rise and Fall of Stalin (New York: Avon Books, 1966), 665.

  “Poland must be mistress”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 1184.

  “Just think”: M. Lisiewicz et al., eds., Destiny Can Wait: The Polish Air Force in the Second World War (Nashville, TN: Battery Press, 1949), 168–69.

  “keep peace, dignity”: Wacław Jędrzejewicz, ed., Poland in the British Parliament, 1939–1945 (New York: Pilsudski Institute, 1946), 369.

  “On the one hand”: Romuald Lipinski, Memoirs, Polish Combatants Association, http://www.execulink.com/​jferenc.

  “are starved, beaten”: Gilbert, Road to Victory, 1243.

  “The Poles”: Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 (New York: Vintage, 2012), 631.

  “source of increasing political embarrassment”: Cabinet minutes, Jan. 22, 1946, AIR 8/1157, National Archives, London.

  “cold and dispassionate attitude”: Air Ministry memo, Jan. 17, 1946, FO 371/115, National Archives, London.

  “strongest, the most loyal”: Ibid.

  “Throughout our history”: Edward Raczyński, In Allied London (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1963), xii.

  “Why are you crying”: Zamoyski, The Forgotten Few, 4.

  “Any one of these”: Jones, Reflections, 217.

  “What a windfall”: 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), 207.

  “Setting them to work”: Władysław Kozaczuk and Jerzy Straszak, Enigma: How the Poles Broke the Nazi Code (New York: Hippocrene Books, 2004), 240.

  “We cannot exclude”: Ibid.

  “to cooperate”: Jan Stanislaw Ciechanowski et al., eds., Rejewski: Living with the Enigma Secret (Bydgoszcz, Poland: Bydgoszcz City Council, 2005), 199.

  “It is clear”: Kozaczuk and Straszak, Enigma, 248.

  “Such a theft”: R. V. Jones, Reflections on Intelligence (London: Heinemann, 1989), 213–14.

  “The credit I gave them”: Ibid., 213.

  “Until just before”: Ibid., 214.

  “would never have”: Gordon Welchman, The Hut Six Story (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982), 305.

  “nothing but depressing”: Ciechanowski et al., eds., Rejewski, 88.

  “a barren existence”: Ibid., 42.

  “greatly assisted”: http://virtualglobetrotting.com/​map/​polish-memorial-at-bletchley-park/​view/​google/.

  “as a whole”: “Poland’s Overlooked Enigma Codebreakers,” BBC News Magazine, July 5, 2014.

  CHAPTER 27: “A COLLECTIVE FAULT”

  “There will be food”: Henri van der Zee, The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland, 1944–45 (London: Jill Norman and Hobhouse, 1982), 286.

  “as close to destitution”: Rudy Abrahamson, Spanning the Century: The Life of W. Averell Harriman (New York: William Morrow, 1992), 413.

  “Under the German occupation”: Malcolm Muggeridge, Chronicles of Wasted Time, vol. 2: The Infernal Grove (London: Collins, 1973), 224.

  “we [regarded ourselves]”: Paul Watkins, Fellowship of Ghosts: A Journey Through the Mountains of Norway (New York: Picador, 2011), 202.

  “If you wanted”: Ibid.

  “one of the more”: Muggeridge, The Infernal Grove, 224.

  “People who did not”: Jan Karski, Story of a Secret State (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013), 243–44.

  “In the circumstances”: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2005), 45.

  “needed and received”: Louis de Jong, The Netherlands and Nazi Germany (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990), 7.

  “During the first two years”: Julian Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 350.

  “fear and their own worries”: Elsa van der Laaken, Point of Reference (Bloomington, IN: Xlibris, 2002), 138.

  “The criminal madness”: Marlise Simons, “Chirac Affirms France’s Guilt in Fate of Jews,” New York Times, July 17, 1995.

  “give a ‘message’ ”: Kenneth Turan, “ ‘Sorrow and the Pity’ Still Potent, Powerful,” Los Angeles Times, July 7, 2000.

  “required the solidarity”: Jackson, France: The Dark Years, 360.

  “every [one of them]”: Tessa Stirling, Daria Nałęcz, and Tadeusz Dubicki, eds., Intelligence Cooperation Between Poland and Great Britain During World War II (London: Valentine Mitchell, 2005), 64.

  “It is not surprising”: Michael R. Marrus, The Holocaust in History (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1987), 107.

  CHAPTER 28: “THE WORLD COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE THE SAME”

  “Silence over Europe’s recent past”: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2005), 10.

  “through the entire war”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, In Pursuit of Life (Stroud, UK: Sutton, 2003), 200.

  “a creature from another”: Ibid., 197.

  “The fearsome dangers”: Ibid., 75.

  “skeptical, pragmatic practitioners”: Judt, Postwar, 82.

  “was the embodiment”: Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, Soldier of Orange (London: Sphere, 1982), 258.

  “To every Hollander”: Ibid.

  “a victory”: M.R.D. Foot, Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1940–1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1990), 213.

  “the spokesman for all”: “The Netherlands: Woman in the House,” Time, May 13, 1946.

  “The idea that”: Ian Buruma, Year Zero: A History of 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2013), 8.

  “It is now obvious”: David Dimbleby and David Reynolds, An Ocean Apart: The Relationship Between Britain and America in the Twentieth Century (New York: Random House, 1988), 188.

  “I left for Moscow”: Marcia Davenport, Too Strong for Fantasy (New York: Pocket Books, 1969), 339.

  “What happened in Washington”: Ibid., 342.

  “Facing an implacable foe”: Josef Korbel, Twentieth-Century Czechoslovakia: The Meanings of Its History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 247.

  “They have found out”: Ibid., 246.

  “What died with him”: Claire Sterling, The Masaryk Case (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 1.

  “determination of the free countries”: Foot, Holland at War, 190.

  “really made us”: Jack Adams, The Doomed Expedition: The Norwegian Campaign of 1940 (London: Leo Cooper, 1989), 35.

  CHAPTER 29: “MY COUNSEL TO EUROPE…:
UNITE!”

  “rather like one”: James H. Huizinga, Mr. Europe: A Political Biography of Paul Henri Spaak (New York: Praeger, 1961), 75.

  “I’m often told”: Ibid.

  “If the European Community”: Robert W. Allen, Churchill’s Guests: Britain and the Belgian Exiles During World War II (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003), 181.

  “I have opened”: Huizinga, Mr. Europe, 239.

  “When we have won”: Douglas Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze: Some Account of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Windlesham, UK: Springwood, 1983), 94.

  “Britain, our closest”: Foot, Holland at War, 189.

  “consent to think”: Huizinga, Mr. Europe, 233.

  “in which the barriers”: Martin Gilbert, Winston S. Churchill, vol. 7: Road to Victory, 1941–1945 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986), 239.

  “When the Nazi power”: M.R.D. Foot, Holland at War Against Hitler: Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1940–1945 (London: Frank Cass, 1990), 246.

  “solemn charades”: Huizinga, Mr. Europe, 235.

  “I admire those”: Ibid., 236.

  “We are with Europe”: John Colville, Winston Churchill and His Inner Circle (New York: Wyndham Books, 1981), 261.

  “Every time we must”: Charles de Gaulle, The Complete War Memoirs (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998), 557.

  “renounce the insularity”: Willy Brandt, In Exile: Essays, Reflections and Letters, 1933–1947 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), 10.

  “moment of national reconciliation”: Tony Judt, Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 (New York: Penguin, 2005), 160.

  “as the last hurrah”: Max Hastings, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945 (New York: Vintage, 2012), 639.

  “an embrace so close”: Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper, Paris: After the Liberation: 1944-1949 (New York: Penguin, 2004), 375.

  “any British pretension”: Beevor and Cooper, Paris: After the Liberation, 375.

  “If we try to remain”: David Reynolds, “France, Britain and the Narrative of Two World Wars,” in Britain and France in Two World Wars: Truth, Myth and Memory, ed. Robert Tombs and Emile Chabal (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), 207.

  “The price of British overdependence”: Jeremy Paxman, The English: A Portrait of a People (Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2000), 41.