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cie Tablicy Pami
tkowej w 50-t
Rocznic
Uwolnienia Wi
niów
ydowskich z Obozu Zagłady na G
siówce’. Mr Micuta’s letter to the author, 18 December 2002.

70
.
NBC miniseries ‘Uprising’: see Internet site.

71
.
Roman Pola
ski,
The Pianist
(2002), based on the true life story of Władysław Szpilman and his book,
The Pianist: the Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
(New York, 2000);
Pianista
(Kraków, 2000).

72
.
Nash Sovryemennik
, June 2002.

73
.
Adam Basak, ‘Niemiecki Pomnik Powstania Warszawskiego’ in
Odra
(Wroclaw), nr. 7–8 (2001), pp. 126–7.

74
.
Władysław Bartoszewski, ‘Post
piłbym tak samo’,
Rzeczpospolita
, 1 August 2003.

75
.
‘The Warsaw Rising: Its Course and Consequences’. Address at the Sorbonne, 9 October 2000, in
Above Divisions: Selected Speeches . . .
(Warsaw, 2001), p. 125.

76
.
Monument in Park Morskie Oko, Warsaw.

77
.
‘Traveller! Lower your head . . .’, Inscription on the Monument to the Victims of Stalinist terror, Słu
ewiec, Warsaw: translated by Norman Davies.

78
.
‘Diariusz Sejmu RP’: <
www.senat.gov.pl/k4/dok/diar/68/6807.htm
>.

Interim Report

pp. 619–637


1
.
D. Reynolds (ed.),
Origins of the Cold War in Europe: international perspectives
(Yale, 1994): also Vojt
ch Mastný,
Russia’s Road to the Cold War, 1941–45
(New York, 1979); Victor Rothwell,
Britain and the Cold War 1941–47
(London, 1982).

2
.
Jan Nowak Jeziora
ski, ‘Syndrom Powstania’,
Tygodnik Powszechny
(Krakow), nr. 31, 4 August 2002.

3
.
General Marian Kukiel, quoted by Jan M. Ciechanowski,
The Warsaw Rising of 1944
(Cambridge, 1974), pp. 283ff. Oddly enough, in 1943 Gen. Kukiel had proposed a rising in Warsaw. Ibid., p. 284.

4
.
Jan M. Ciechanowski, ‘Polityczne i Militarne Przyczyny Powstania’, in Z. Ma
kowski and J.
wi
ch (eds),
Powstanie Warsawskie w historiografi i literaturze, 1944–94
(Lublin, 1996), p. 25.

5
.
Jan Karski,
The Great Powers and Poland, 1919–45
(Lanham, MD, 1945), p. 531.

6
.
Sir William Deakin, ‘Churchill and Europe in 1944’, the Crosby Kemper Lecture, Westminster College, Fulton, MO, 19 March 1984: ‘I have often wondered why, in the personal talks and correspondence between Roosevelt and Churchill, scant attention was given to the momentous problem of how to deal with Russians . . . The first test of our future relatons with the Soviet Union was to be the fate of Poland’. P5. <
http://www.westminster-mo.edu/cm/scholar/europe/europe1.asp
>.

7
.
Stefan Korbo
ski,
The Polish Underground State
(Boulder, Colo rado, 1978), p. 172.

8
.
See Rothwell, op. cit.

9
.
Clark Kerr’s tirade could only have taken place in the absence of clear instructions from London for the Premier to be given positive assistance. It is a prime example of the way in which Stalin’s hard line was allowed to pass by default. See Chapter V, above.

10
.
Deakin, op. cit., p. 6.

11
.
Sir John Slessor,
The Central Blue: Recollections and Reflections
(London, 1956), p. 612: R. E. Sherwood,
Roosevelt and Hopkins: an intimate history
(New York, 1948).

12
.
See the testimony of Capt. Alan McIntosh (RAAF) in NAVIGATOR capsule, p. 308. Similar experiences were reported by American pilots on the Frantic run to Poltava.
• 13.
E. D. R. Harrison, ‘The British Special Operations Executive and Poland’,
Historical Journal
43.4 (Cambridge, 2000).

14
.
Ibid., p. 1078.

15
.
Peter Wilkinson,
Foreign Fields: the story of an SOE operative
(London, 1997), p. 124, quoted by Harrison.

16
.
Ibid.

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