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5 Pivnik, Sam, Survivor, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2012, p. 28.

6 Pivnik, op.cit. p. 34.

7 Churchill, Winston, The Second World War (abridged), Grange Books, London, 2003, p. 43.

8 The word and the idea were not new. They had been applied by the Prussian staff officer von Clausewitz to Napoleon’s strategic and tactical genius in the early nineteenth century. In the early 1930s, it was the aerial aspect that was so revolutionary.

9 Unnamed reporter, quoted in Chronicle of the 20th Century, Longman, London, 1988.

10 This and all subsequent quotations from Harold Nicolson can be found in: Nicolson, Harold, Diaries and Letters 1930-39 (1966) and 1939-45 (1967), ed. Nicolson, Nigel, Collins, London.

11 Goering, Hermann, quoted in Snyder, Louis L. Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, Wordsworth Editions, Herts, 1998.

12 All quotes from Marie Vassiltchikov are taken from The Berlin Diaires, Pimlico, London, 1999.

13 Quoted in Ponting, Clive, 1940: Myth and Reality, Cardinal (Sphere Books), London, 1990.

14 Churchill, W., House of Commons Debates Vol. 361, Col, 796, 4 June 1940.

15 Corunna was the port used by the British navy to evacuate troops in the Peninsula War against Napoleon. The brilliant Sir John Moore was killed there.

16 It was, perhaps, a little disconcerting that a prominent member of the Ministry of Information believed that only a few of our troops would need to be evacuated.

17 Priestley, J. B., quoted in Smith, Godfrey (ed), How it Was in the War, Pavilion Books, London, 1989, p. 71.

18 Churchill, W., House of Commons Debates Vol. 362, Col, 60, 18 June 1940.

19 Churchill, op.cit. p. 73.