Acknowledgements

For their help in the research of this book, I would like to thank the following:

Peter Newark, for his extensive crime and photographic library; the staff of the National Archives, Kew, and the British Library; Eric van Slander and Timothy K. Nenninger at the National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland; Mary M. Huth of the Rush Rhees Library, University of Rochester, NY; Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty of the Herbert H. Lehman Suite and Papers, Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY; Richard L. Baker of the US Army Military History Institute, Carlisle PA; Maggie E. Bird of the Metropolitan Police Historical Collection; Susi Rogol of the London Police Pensioner Magazine; William Capp and Martin Gerrard, for police memories of Sicily; His Grace the Duke of Wellington; Michael E. Gonzales of the 45th Infantry Division Museum; Edward Dojutrek and Carl Q. Topie of the 3rd Infantry Division Society; Charles T. Pinck of the OSS Society; Malcolm Brown of the Imperial War Museum; Monica Tavazzani, Laura Kurz, John Whitworth, for lending me books; Lisa Donafee, for her translations; in Rome, Rohan MacCullum; in Palermo, Lucy Wildman, for her welcome spaghetti, Serena Gambarini, for her fearless driving, Giada Platania, Salvatore Cabasino, Maia Mancuso, and the staff of the Biblioteca Centrale della Regione Siciliana; Ray Moseley, Robert A. Rockaway, and Christopher Duggan for their advice; Richard Hammer, Andrew Roberts and Charles Messenger for their kind words.

At Greenhill Books, I would like to thank my publisher Michael Leventhal, for his inspiration and friendship, my editor, Kate Baker, and the staff of the Mango Rooms, our branch office in north London.