Read Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw Online

Authors: Norman Davies

Tags: #Non-Fiction, #War, #History

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (131 page)

BOOK: Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
7.75Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

See R. Steel,
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
(London, 1980).

28
.
Arthur Bliss Lane, though confirmed in September 1944, delayed his journey to Europe to July 1945, when he made straight for Soviet-run Warsaw. See his
I Saw Poland Betrayed
(Minneapolis, 1948).

29
.
SPP, 6. 3–3, 1 July 1944.

30
.
Philip Bell,
John Bull and the Bear: British public opinion, foreign policy and the Soviet Union, 1941–45
(London, 1990).

31
.
2 August 1944, in Carlton, op. cit., pp. 239–41.

32
.
William Mackenzie,
The Secret History of SOE
(London, 2000), Part I ‘Origins’, pp. 3–71.

33
.
Tadeusz Romer (1894–1978); Stanisław Kopa
ski (1895–1976), see his
W spomnienie Wojenne, 1939–45
(London, 1972).

34
.
Alan J. Foster, in
New Dictionary of National Biography
(Oxford, 2000), pp. 154ff; see also Peter Wilkinson,
Gubbins and SOE
(London, 1993) and
Foreign Fields
(London, 1997); O. O’Malley,
The Phantom Caravan
(London, 1954).

35
.
General Stanisław Tatar, ‘Tabor’, see Zbigniew S. Siemaszko,
Działalno
Generała Tatar
(London, 1999).

36
.
J. Pomian,
J. H. Retinger: Memoirs of an Eminence Grise
(Sussex, 1972).

37
.
Stephen Dorrill,
MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations
(London, 2000).

38
.
Zbigniew S. Siemaszko, ‘Retinger w Polsce w 44 roku’,
ZH
,
XII
, 1967, pp. 56–115.

39
.
Dixon, 15 February, quoted by V. Rothwell, op. cit.

40
.
W. F. Reddaway (ed.),
The Cambridge History of Poland
(Cambridge, 1941, 1950), 2 vols; W. R. Morfill,
Poland
(Oxford, 1893): see also Roman Dyboski,
Poland
(London, 1933).

41
.
W. J. Rose,
Poland
(Harmondsworth, 1939), p. 243.

42
.
Polish Ministry of Information,
The Black Book of Poland
(London, 1942).

43
.
Republic of Poland,
The German Occupation of Poland
(London, 1942).

44
.
E.g.
Victor Cazalet,
With Sikorski to Russia
(London, 1942), and others.

45
.
Apart from official Government publications, a Polish Information Committee was very active in New York. Titles included
Poland Fights
(1941–46),
Polish Facts and Figures
(1944–45), and
Poland of Tomorrow
.

46
.
R. Addinsell,
The Warsaw Concerto
: Dangerous Moonlight (1941). Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Released in the USA in 1945 with the unfortunate title of
Suicide Squad
.

47
.
E. Raczy
ski,
W Sojuszniczym Londynie
(London, 1997), p. 433.

48
.
Ibid., p. 432.

49
.
Poland’s Eastern Frontier
, The National Archives (TNA): PRO COPY FO 404/30, C1482/1551/55 (19 November 1943) and
Possible Lines of a Polish–Soviet Settlement
(22 November 1943), in A. Polonsky,
The Great Powers and the Polish Question, 1941–45
(London, 1976), p. 160.

50
.
Jan M. Ciechanowski,
The Warsaw Rising of 1944
(Cambridge, 1974), p. 48.

51
.
Winston Churchill,
The Second World War
(London, 1948), vol. 1.

52
.
Tele gram: Demel to Iranek-Osmecki, text in Zbigniew S. Siemaszko,
Ł
czno
i Polityka
(London, 1992), p. 96.

53
.
Siemaszko,
Tatar
, op. cit., p. 39.

54
.
Ibid., pp. 23–4, 43–4.

55
.
HIA Poland, MSZ File, June 1944. Ambassador J. Ciechanowski (Washington)–Foreign Minister Romer. 11 June 1944. No. 3/SZ – tjn/29c.

56
.
Siemaszko,
Tatar
, op. cit., pp. 46–7. This conversation has been reconstructed from an account written by Tabor in 1981, shortly before his death. It may be compared with: L. Mitkiewicz,
W najwy
szym sztabie zachodnich Aliantów, 1943–5
(London, 1971), p. 177.

57
.
Note by RSM Stefan Zamoyski, 13 June 1944, SPP 2–3-2–1-4.

58
.
S. Mikołajczyk,
The Rape of Poland
(New York, 1948), p. 60.

59
.
Jan Ciechanowski,
Defeat in Victory
(New York, 1947), passim.

60
.
Such was the considered opinion of a British insider. ‘Gen. Tabor . . . saw both the British Chiefs of Staff and the Combined Chiefs of Staff, and all possible efforts were made . . . to secure . . . Allied assistance for a general rising. The efforts were not successful: no promises were given, indeed the difficulties were made very plain . . . But no attempt was made to control or to prohibit a general rising: this was explicitly left to the Poles to decide.’ Mackenzie, op. cit., pp. 521–2.

61
.
Notatka z uroczysto
ci dekorowania gen. S. Tabora orderem Ła
ni

BOOK: Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw
7.75Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
ads

Other books

First Light by Philip R. Craig, William G. Tapply
Sunrise West by Jacob G.Rosenberg
The Rogue's Reluctant Rose by du Bois, Daphne
Greyhound by Piper, Steffan
In the Enemy's Arms by Marilyn Pappano
Spellbreaker by Blake Charlton


readsbookonline.com Copyright 2016 - 2024