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CHAPTER 1: The Allied Coalition

pp. 17–70


1
.
See Stanisław Maczek,
Od podwody do czołga
(London, 1984), p. 146.

2
.
Nor man Davies,
Heart of Europe: a short history of Poland
(Oxford, 2001).

3
.
A. J. P. Taylor,
Beaverbrook
(London, 1972), p. 363.

4
.
Simon Newman,
The British Guar antee of Poland 1939
(Oxford, 1976).

5
.
W. J
drzejewicz,
Poland in the British Parliament, 1939–45
(New York, 1946), vol. 1, p. 26.

6
.
Ibid., passim.

7
.
Beaver brook to R. H. Mummy, 21 March 1939, in Taylor, op. cit., p. 391.

8
.
Ibid., p. 394.

9
.
Ibid., p. 395.

10
.
See <
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special-report/1999/08/99/world_war_ii/430071.stm
>.

11
.
S. Grzelak,
Dziennik Sowieckiej Agresji, 1939
(Warsaw, 2000), pp. 38–9; also Nicholas Bethell,
The War Hitler Won
(London, 1972); and Adam Zamoyski,
The Forgotten Few: the Polish Air Force in the Second World War
(London, 1995).

12
.
Count Edward Raczy
ski (1891–1992), see his
In
Allied London
(London, 1962).

13
.
When Raczy
ski officially informed the Foreign Office on 18 September about the Soviet Union’s aggression against Poland, he was immediately told that ‘the Anglo-Polish alliance concerns Germany, not Russia’. The National Archives (TNA): PRO (Public Records Office) COPY FO 371 23103/18.

14
.
Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski (1895–1966): see his
The Secret Army
(London, 1950); Tadeusz Pełczy
ski (1892–1985), see his
Na swi
to
ołnierza
(Lon don, 1950); Antoni Chru
ciel, ‘Monter’ (1895–1960); Leopold Okulicki, ‘Bear Cub’ (1898–1946); Emil Fieldorf, ‘Nil’ (1895–1953): see Maria Fieldorf,
Generał ‘Nil’: August Emil Fieldorf: fakty, dokumenty, relacje
(Warsaw, 1993).

15
.
D. Carlton,
Anthony Eden: a Biography
(London, 1981), p. 246.

16
.
Józef Garli
ski,
Poland in the Second World War, 1939–45
(London, 1985), pp. 92–3.

17
.
Zamoyski, op. cit., p. 96.

18
.
Ibid., p. 97.

19
.
See 350/XXX/999 TO8 DE1, note 6 above.

20
.
Documents on Polish–Soviet Relations
, Sikorski Institute (London, 1961), vol. I. The military potential of the Red Army was thought to be low, as it was in 1939. Prior to the September Campaign, the Polish Army was judged by Anglo-French specialists to be a better partner. See Julian Jackson,
The Fall of France, 1940
(London, 2003).

21
.
Keith Sword,
Deportation and Exile: Poles in the Soviet Union 1939–48
(London, 1996); Jan T. Gross,
Revolution from Abroad
(Princeton, 1988); Irena G. and Jan T. Gross,
War through Children’s Eyes: the Soviet Occupation of Poland and the Deporta tions, 1939–41
(Stanford, 1981).

22
.
Frank Roberts, 21 March 1942, The National Archives (TNA): PRO (Public Record Office) COPY FO 31081/2428. Quoted by V. Rothwell,
Britain and the Cold War
(London, 1982), p. 153.

23
.
Anthony Beevor,
Stalingrad
(London, 1998).

24
.
See M. Harz,
Bibliografia zbrodni katy
skiej, 1943–93
(Warsaw, 1993).

25
.
See Keith Sword (ed.),
Sikorski, Soldier and Statesman: a collection of essays
(London, 1990). The puzzle of the accident at Gibraltar remains unsolved.

26
.
Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1901–66), see A. Paczkowski,
Kl
ska realisty
(Warsaw, 1991); Kazimierz Sosnkowski (1885–1969), see Maria Pestkowska,
Kazimierz Sosnkowski
(Wrocław, 1995).

27
.

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