FOREWORD
1. M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (London: Frank Cass, 2004), 236
CHAPTER 1
1. M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (London: Frank Cass, 1966), 60.
CHAPTER 2
1. M. R. D. Foote, SOE in France, ix.
2. Mark Seaman, Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War (Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2006), 19.
3. A. R. B. Linderman, Rediscovering Irregular Warfare: Colin Gubbins and the Origins of Britain’s Special Operations Executive (Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016), 166.
4. M. R. D. Foot, introduction to The Secret History of S.O.E., by William Mackenzie (London: Saint Ermin’s, 2002), xix.
5. Foot, introduction to The Secret History of S.O.E., xx.
CHAPTER 3
1. M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (London: Frank Cass, 1966), 44.
2. Philip Liewer SOE personal file; Crown copyright September 1942, National Archives, U.K.
3. Susan Ottaway, Violette Szabo: The Life That I Have (London: Thistle, 2014), 358–62.
4. R. J. Minney, Carve Her Name with Pride (London: George Newnes, 1956), 262–64.
5. Selwyn Jepson, Imperial War Museum, London, Oral History catalogue number 9331, reel 1, 1986.
6. Minney, Carve Her Name with Pride, chapter 8.
7. Bob Maloubier, Agent Secret de Churchill (Paris: Tallandier, 2011), 59.
CHAPTER 4
1. An account of this action, taken from Philippe’s report to SOE, is cited in Foot’s SOE in France. Additional detail is recorded in Maloubier’s autobiography, Agent Secret de Churchill.
CHAPTER 5
1. Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide (New York: HarperCollins, 1998), 11.
2. Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide, 198.
3. Susan Ottaway, Violette Szabo: The Life That I Have (London: Thistle, 2014), 132.
CHAPTER 7
1. Douglas Waller, Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage (New York: Free Press, 2011), 51.
2. Waller, Wild Bill Donovan, 74.
3. John Whiteclay Chambers II, Office of Strategic Services Training During World War II (Washington, D.C., Studies in Intelligence, vol. 54, no. 2, Central Intelligence Agency, June 2010), 9.
CHAPTER 8
1. John Whiteclay Chambers II, Bang-Bang Boys, Jedburghs, and the House of Horrors: A History of OSS Training and Operations in World War II (Washington, D.C.: National Park Service, 2008), 192.
2. Bradley F. Smith and Agnes F. Petersen (eds.), Heinrich Himmler: Geheimreden 1933 bis 1945 und andere Ansprachen (Berlin: Ullstein, 1974), 169.
CHAPTER 10
1. M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (London: Frank Cass, 1966), 79
2. The year 1944 was a leap year.
CHAPTER 11
1. For an excellent explanation of the double transposition system, and of all the others used by SOE, see Pierre Lorain, Clandestine Operations: The Arms and Techniques of the Resistance, 1941–1944 (New York: Macmillan, 1972).
CHAPTER 14
1. Gordon Thomas and Greg Lewis, Shadow Warriors of World War II: The Daring Women of the OSS and SOE (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2017), 61–62.
CHAPTER 16
1. Max Hastings, Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (London: Michael Joseph, 1981), 113.
CHAPTER 30
1. R. J. Minney, Carve Her Name with Pride (London: George Newnes, 1956), 262–64.
2. Yeo-Thomas letter to Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Henry (“Dizzy”) Dismore, September 14, 1944, Crown copyright 1944, National Archives, U.K.
CHAPTER 31
1. André Malraux, Discours du transfert des cendres de Jean Moulin au Panthéon (Paris, National Archives, Ministry of Culture, 1964).