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This book is in part an exploration of the role of institutions in shaping culture, so it is appropriate that my foremost thanks should go to two exemplary institutions. The award of a five-year Starting Grant from the European Research Council provided me with a period of leave that enabled me to complete the research and writing of this book and also brought in a team of researchers and experts to King’s. I am enormously appreciative of these resources of time and money and most of all am thankful for the presence of scholars with related interests; they have broadened the conversation and pushed my work in unexpected directions. At the same time the award of a Philip Leverhulme Prize from the Leverhulme Trust has granted me additional travel funds and research assistance and, crucially, places in which to write.
While writing I have been grateful once again for the company and friendship of fellow writers: notably Juliet Gardiner, who has also helped shape the project from the outset, and Hannah Mulder, who was with me speeding across windy beaches as I started the book proposal and as I ended the coda. Juliet also read the whole manuscript and offered invaluable, demanding comments, as did Lisa Appignanesi, Ian Patterson and Alexandra Harris, whose high standards continue to be a source of inspiration and whose friendship remains a source of support.
This book has brought me outside my own comfort zones of British culture and biography into the realms of military history, German literature and Cold War politics. I’ve been extremely lucky to be able to draw on the expertise of friends in each area and am very grateful to historians Antony Beevor and Richard Overy, Germanists Stephen Brockmann and Werner Sollors and political theorist Geoffrey Hawthorn for taking time from their own writing to read my manuscript.
The English department at King’s College London continues to provide me with a very happy base from which to conduct my research. Thanks are due to my Heads of Department, Josephine McDonogh and Richard Kirkland, for supporting me in my grant applications and then in enabling the running of the ERC project. This project, Beyond Enemy Lines, has brought me into an enjoyable and rewarding collaboration with colleagues in the German department – Erica Carter, Ben Schofield and Bobbi Weninger – and with the post-docs and PhDs with whom I run the project: Elaine Morley, Emily Oliver, Hanja Dämon and Julia Vossen. It has also brought the invaluable administrative support of Helena Metslang. Within the English department, I am thankful for the dedication and often startling ingenuity and brilliance of the PhD students who have acted as research assistants: Eleanor Bass, Nicola von Bodman-Hensler, Oline Eaton, Natasha Periyan and Julia Schoen. I am also deeply and happily indebted to the intellectual exchange, advice and friendship of Neil Vickers, Max Saunders, Edmund Gordon and Jon Day.
I am lucky to have a circle of loyal, stimulating and knowledgeable friends who have helped me through conversations, both intellectual and personal, and have been a source both of fun and support throughout the writing of this book. In addition to those already mentioned, I would like to thank Susie Christensen, David Godwin, Katie Graham, Jeremy Harding, Richard Holmes, Eveline Kilian, Sarah Lefanu, Alison MacLeod, Kate McLoughlin, Leo Mellor, Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Vike Plock, Stephen Romer, Matthew Spender, John-Paul Stonard, Lyndsey Stonebridge, Hannah Sullivan and Inigo Thomas.
Among the many archives and libraries I visited in the course of the research, I would like to express particular gratitude to staff at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University, the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, the Boston University Special
Collections, the JFK Memorial Library, the London Library, the Monacensia Literaturarchiv, the National Archives (London), the National Archives and Records Administration (Washington) and the University of Tulsa Special Collections. I am grateful to the local colleagues who have made these research trips pleasurable, notably Lars Engel and Sean Latham in Tulsa. I would also like to thank Alexandra Matthews, Christine Shuttleworth and Matthew Spender for granting me access to their parents’ manuscripts and Caroline Moorhead for sharing her expertise on Martha Gellhorn.
At Bloomsbury, I continue to have the ideal editor in Michael Fishwick. His unwavering loyalty to me and my writing means more than I can say. I am also extremely grateful for the editorial input and calm efficiency of Anna Simpson and Marigold Atkey, and for the sustaining encouragement of Alexandra Pringle in London and George Gibson in New York. Zoe Waldie helped shape the book in its early stages and Tracy Bohan helped as it made its way into print. Both have been cheering supporters who have made the process of writing and being published considerably easier.
My son, Humphrey, has spent all four years of his life in competition with this book and I am grateful to him for making the time away from it so much fun. It is telling that the camera roll on my phone alternates photographs of him with pictures of Marlene Dietrich and Martha Gellhorn and that he now accepts them as part of his virtual family. I hope this may long continue. Once again I am grateful to all of Humphrey’s grandparents for their support in making my research and writing trips possible and to my parents for their sustaining love, interest and encouragement. This book is dedicated to my husband John, whose unquestioning acceptance of my need to read and write, often in far-flung places, has made possible these years of balancing writing and motherhood. Long before that, though, he took me to Berlin at a time when I was hesitant about going there, initiating a decade-long love affair with the city that he may have had cause to regret. It is now my place as well as his, and though my Berlin is a city of lakes and parks while his is one of buildings and culture, sometimes they coincide and the results remain enormously enjoyable.
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