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(Princeton, 2004).

55
.
Author’s interview with Professor Jerzy Holzer, November 2001.

56
.
Tadeusz
enczykowski,
Generał Grot: U kresu walki
(London, 1983).

57
.
Czesław Miłosz,
Native Realm: a Search for Self-definition
(London, 1988), p. 233.

58
.
Ibid., p. 239.

59
.
C. Klessmann, ‘Die deutsche Kriegsführung im Osten und die Besatzungspolitik in Polen: Revisionsbestrebungen angesichts drohender Nied erlagen’, in Stanisława Lewandowska and Bernd Martin (eds),
Der Warschauer
Aufstand
(Warsaw, 1999), p. 74.

60
.
Quoted by N. Rich,
Hitler’s War Aims
(London, 1974), vol. II, p. 96.

61
.
Fest,
Face of the Third Reich
, op. cit., p. 330.

62
.
Martin Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik, 1939–45
(Stuttgart, 1961), p. 188.

63
.
Klessman, op. cit., p. 76.

64
.
H. Schwendemann, ‘Der Kapitula tion . . .’ in Martin and Lewandowska, op. cit., pp. 234–53.

65
.
As reported to the British Foreign Office.

66
.
See Chapter VII, note 50.

67
.
Diary Entry of Heinrich Stechbarth, 30, July 1944, Karta Archive, Warsaw.

68
.
Stefan Korbo
ski,
The Polish Underground State
(Boulder Colorado, 1978), p. 176.

69
.
RW
, p. 1.

Chapter III: Eastern Approaches

pp. 119–165


1
.
Norman Davies,
White Eagle, Red Star: The Polish–Soviet War of 1919–20
(London, 1972): republished London, 2003.

2
.
Ibid., pp. 172–3.

3
.
Lord D’Abernon,
The Eighteenth Decisive Battle of World History
(London, 1931), pp. 8–9.

4
.
Gaston Pajewski: a Frenchman of Polish descent. De Gaulle’s associate.

5
.
Karl Baedeker,
Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking: handbook for travellers
(Leipzig, 1914).

6
.
K. Rokossovsky, memoirs. See note 9 below. On the mores of Stalin’s circle, see Simon Sebag-Montefiore,
Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar
(London, 2003).

7
.
Wiesław Białkowski,
Rokossowski, na ile Polak?
(Warsaw, 1994), p. 50.

8
.
Gen. Konstantin F. Telegin. See Anthony Beevor,
Stalingrad
(London, 1998), pp. 388–9. Telegin reappears in Warsaw in September 1944. See Chapter V below.

9
.
Quoted in K. K. Rokossovsky,
Soldatskii dolg
(Moscow, 1968).

10
.
W. Anders,
An Army in Exile
(Nashville, 1981).

11
.
Antony Beevor,
Berlin: the Downfall
(London, 2002), p. 199.

12
.
See Allen Paul,
Katy
: the Untold Story of Stalin’s Polish Massacre
(New York, 1991), pp. 132–4.

13
.
Anders, op. cit., pp. 57–8.

14
.
After Paul, op. cit., p. 260. US Congress, Selection Committee [on] the Facts, Evidence and Circumstances of the Katy
Forest Massacre, 1951–,
Hearings
, vol. VI, p. 1784.

15
.
Robert Conquest,
Harvest of Sorrow
(London, 1986).

16
.
See Chapter II, note 48.

17
.
Lewis (Bernstein) Namier (1888–1960), historian, author of numerous works on the eighteenth century and on Central Europe, such as
Diplomatic Prelude
(1948),
Conflicts
(1942), and
Facing East
(1947): biographies by J. Namier (1977) and Linda Colley (1989). On the Curzon Line episode, see Witold S. Sworakowski,
An Error regarding Eastern Galicia in Curzon’s Note to the Soviet Government of July 11, 1920
(New York, 1944).

18
.
GARF, f3, op. 63, d237, pp. 52–93. Quoted by Sergei Kudryashov, ‘Diplomatic Prelude: Stalin, the Allies and Poland’, in A. Kemp-Welch (ed.),
Stalinism in Poland
(London, 1999), p. 38.

19
.
RGVA 36860/1/16: quoted by Beevor,
Berlin
op. cit., p. 168.

20
.
RGVA 38686/1/20: ibid., p. 168.

21
.
A. Solzhenitsyn, from
Prussian Nights: a narrative poem
(London, 1977), translated by Robert Conquest. (NB: this description was
inspired by Solzhenitsyn’s experiences on the Second Byelorussian Front in January 1945.)

22
.
TsAMo RF (Moscow) f233, op. 2307, d 108, pp. 1–2. Quoted by Kudryashov, op. cit., pp. 38–9.

23
.
GARF, f9401, op2, d64, L222–26. No. 202609, in T. Cariewskaya, et al.,
Teczka Specjalna J. W. Stalina: Raporty NKWD z Polski, 1944–46
(Warsaw, 1998), pp. 26–31.

24
.
Mariola Kayser, ‘The Polemic between Count Edward Raczy
ski and David Lloyd George on Anglo-Polish Relations at the outbreak of World War II’,
Polish–Anglo-Saxon Studies
(Pozna
), vol. 6–7, 1997, pp. 115–63.

25
.
Edward Hallet Carr (1892–1986), see M. Cox (ed.),
E. H. Carr: a critical appraisal
(Basingstoke, 2000). See his
The Soviet Impact on the Western World
(1946). Typically, despite its fourteen volumes, his
History of Soviet Russia
(1950–78) never reached Stalin.

26
.
See D. Caute,
The Fellow Travellers: intellectual friends of Communism
(New Haven, 1988).

27
.
Robert Conquest,
Stalin: Breaker of Nations
(London, 1993), p. 261.

28
.
Eric Hobsbawm,
Interesting Times: a twentieth century life
(London, 2002).

29
.
See F. Beckett,
Enemy Within: the rise and fall of the British Communist Party
(London, 1995).

30
.
Author’s correspondence with Dr Robert Frost.

31
.
Martin Amis,
Koba the Dread
(London, 2002), p. 7.

32
.
Ibid., p. 8.

33
.
Christopher Hill (1912–2003), historian, author of numerous works on English seventeenth-century intellectual history: see also his
Lenin and the Russian Revolu tion
(1947). The extent of his involvement in the Communist movement during the war was only revealed after his death by Anthony Glees, who had withheld it from
The Secrets of the Service: British Intelligence and Communist Subversion
(London, 1987).

34
.
M. R. D. Foote at Polish Embassy, December 2001.

35
.
Andrew Rothstein (1898–c. 1980). His works during the period in question included
Workers in the Soviet Union
(1942),
Soviet policy during the Patriotic War
(1946), and
The teachings of Lenin and Stalin
(1948). He was dismissed from his post at London University by Dr G. Bolsover, who had been the British observer at the Moscow Trial of 1945.

36
.
Victor Rothwell,
Britain and the Cold War 1941–47
(London, 1982), pp. 93–4.

37
.
Quoted in ibid., p. 98.

38
.
Ibid.

39
.
Ibid.

40
.
Ibid., p. 92.

41
.
Ibid., p. 162.

42
.
D. Culbert (ed.),
Mission to Moscow
(Madison, 1980).

43
.
See Jan M. Ciechanowski,
The Warsaw Rising of 1944
(Cambridge, 1974), passim. The talks were inconclusive, but had been started as a form of reinsurance against a possible change of tack.

44
.
John Erickson,
The Road to Berlin
(London, 1983), pp. 281–2.

45
.
Alexander Werth,
Russia at War
(London, 1964), p. 867.

46
.
Ibid., p. 868.

47
.
Józef Garli
ski,
Poland in the Second World War, 1939–45
(London, 1985), p. 281.

48
.
DWS
, pp. 8–9.

49
.
KR o Powstania W-im,
ZH
(1969), p. 137.

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