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  “on the fringe”: Reynolds, “France, Britain and the Narrative of Two World Wars,” 207.

  “prosperity, security, health”: Neal Ascherson, “Painful Lessons Must Be Learned by Europe,” Guardian, July 18, 2015.

  “What began as a drive”: Roger Cohen, “For a Europe Remade, a Celebration in Uncertainty,” International Herald Tribune, March 24, 2007.

  “Never again”: New York Times, July 10, 1997.

  “an unforgettable one”: Bronisław Gieremek, “Britain and Poland: The Neglected Friendship?,” Polish International Institute, May 17, 2006.

  “During the Second World War”: Foot, Holland at War, 186.

  “The essential”: François Kersaudy, Churchill and de Gaulle (New York: Atheneum, 1982), 414.

  “bordered on idolatry”: Tom Hickman, What Did You Do in the War, Auntie? (London: BBC Books, 1995), 204.

  “it was almost embarrassing”: Ibid., 127.

  “During the long”: Asa Briggs, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. 3: The War of Words (London: Oxford University Press, 1970), 611.

  “The British made me feel”: Joachim Rønneberg, “The Linge Company and the British,” in Britain and Norway in the Second World War, ed. Patrick Salmon (London: HMSO, 1995), 157.

  “love which was neither”: Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War (London: Arrow, 2010), 125.

  “the courage and compassion”: General Sir John Hackett, I Was a Stranger (London: Chatto & Windus, 1978), 210.

  “the spiritual experience”: John Waddy, “Shan Hackett at Arnhem,” Airborne Assault, http://www.paradata.org.uk/​articles/​shan-hackett-arnhem-article-john-waddy.

  “This was a battle”: Ibid.

  “50 years ago”: “WW2 People’s War,” www.bbc.co.uk/​history/​ww2peoples war/stories/61/a5887461.shtml.

  “buried here”: Robert Hardman, “Seventy Years On, Arnhem Has Never Forgotten Thousands of British and Polish Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives in Ill-Fated Allied Plan to Deliver Blow to Hitler,” Daily Mail, Sept. 27, 2014.

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  FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY, HYDE PARK

  Franklin D. Roosevelt Papers

  NATIONAL ARCHIVES UK, KEW

  Air Ministry Papers

  Foreign Office Papers

  POLISH INSTITUTE AND SIKORSKI MUSEUM, LONDON

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