Introduction
1. Madeja, The Polish 2nd Corps and The Italian Campaign 1943–1945, p. 17.
2. National Statistics, Ministry of Defence, UK Armed Forces Monthly Service Personnel Statistics 1st January 2016, p. 6.
3. Central Office of Information, PAIFORCE, p. 130.
4. Kleczkowski, Poland’s First 100,000, pp. 4–5.
Chapter 1: The First Blitzkrieg
1. Sheffield, de Wiart and Spears, in Keegan (ed.), Churchill’s Generals, p. 328.
2. Teslar, Poland Remains a Rock, p. 23.
3. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 13.
4. Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, p. 125.
5. Ironside, quoted in Kleczkowski, Poland’s First 100,000, p. 95.
6. Sikorski’s telegram to Churchill, 18 June 1940, quoted from Kleczkowski, Poland’s First 100,000, p. 32.
7. Kleczkowski, Poland’s First 100,000, p. 33.
8. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 118.
9. Eden, Memoirs: The Reckoning, p. 160.
10. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 125.
Chapter 2: A Polish Army in the USSR
1. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 30.
2. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 41.
3. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 44.
4. Eden, Memoirs, The Reckoning, p. 272.
5. Prażmowska, Britain and Poland 1939–1943: The Betrayed Ally, p. 88.
6. Teslar, Poland Remains a Rock, p. 18.
7. Eden, Memoirs: The Reckoning, p. 273.
8. Ismay, The Memoirs, p. 223.
9. National Archives, CAB 80/29 C 518458, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 17th August 1941, Polish Forces in Russia.
10. Major General Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko, quoted in Barbarski and Englert, General Anders, p. 10.
11. Churchill, The Second World War, Abridged Edition, p. 469.
12. National Archives, CAB 80/30 C 518460, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 18 September 1941, Polish War Effort in Russia.
13. National Archives, War Cabinet WP(41)238, October 8, 1941, Moscow Conference, p. 11.
14. National Archives, War Cabinet, Moscow Conference, WP(41)238, October 8, 1941, Enclosure IV, Transportation Committee.
15. National Archives, War Cabinet, Moscow Conference, WP(41)238, October 8, 1941, Enclosure IV, Transportation Committee.
16. National Archives, CAB 79/14 C 518458, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 2 October 1941, Polish Forces in Russia.
17. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin and Dispatches from Russia, p. 44.
18. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin and Dispatches from Russia, p. 54.
19. National Archives, War Cabinet, Moscow Conference, WP(41)238, October 8, 1941, Enclosure VII, Re-equipment of Polish Forces in Russia.
20. National Archives, CAB 79/14 C 518458, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 2 October 1941, Polish Forces in Russia.
21. Nagorski, The Greatest Battle, The Fight For Moscow 1941–42, p. 131.
22. National Archives, CAB 79/15 C 518458, Chief of Staffs Committee, 7th November 1941, 7. Arming of Polish Forces in Russia.
23. National Archives, CAB 79/15 C 518458, Chief of Staffs Committee, 10th November 1941, 1. Evacuation of Polish Forces from Russia.
24. PISM Axii 64/1 17, Top Secret, Note, A conversation with General MacFarlane and General Szyszko-Bohusz, 21st November 1941.
25. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin and dispatches from Russia, pp. 145–55.
26. Stalin quoted in Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 89.
27. Molotov quoted in Eden, Memoirs: The Reckoning, p. 299.
28. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin and dispatches from Russia, pp. 229–30.
29. Kot, Conversations with the Kremlin and dispatches from Russia, p. 219.
30. National Archive, CAB 79/19 C 518460, Chiefs of Staff Committee, 19th March 1942, 2. Evacuation of Polish Forces from Russia.
Chapter 3: Exodus to the Middle East
1. National Archive CAB 79/19 C 518461, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee (COS(42) 92nd meeting), 23rd March 1942.
2. Mosley, Leonard, Middle East Correspondent, Aberdeen Press and Journal, Friday, April 24, 1942.
3. Auchinleck quoted in Prażmowska, Britain and Poland 1939–1945, p. 133.
4. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 252.
5. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 252.
6. National Archives, CAB 80/36 C 518461, War Cabinet, Chiefs of Staff Committee; (COS (42) 237th meeting), 27th April 1942, Allocation of Polish Forces.
7. National Archives, CAB 66/36/48, Polish–Soviet Relations, 10 May 1943, p. 8.
8. National archives, Cab 66/36/48, Polish–Soviet Relations, 10 May 1943, p. 2.
9. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 241.
10. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 17.
11. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 17.
12. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 118.
13. Butler, Mason-Mac, p. 139.
14. National Archives, CAB 66/36/48, War Cabinet, Polish–Soviet Relations, 10th May 1943, p. 4.
15. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 551.
16. Central Office of Information, PAIFORCE, p. 117.
17. Countess of Ranfurly, To War with Whitaker, p. 170.
18. Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey, p. 99.
Chapter 4: Along British Lines
1. Kleczkowski, Poland’s first 100,000, p. 67.
2. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 300.
3. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 301.
4. General Bohusz-Szyszko, quoted in Barbarski and Englert, General Anders, p. 10.
5. General Bohusz-Szyszko, quoted in Barbarski and Englert, General Anders, p. 10.
6. Central Office of Information, PAIFORCE, p. 130.
7. Central Office of Information, PAIFORCE, p. 130.
8. Anders, An Army In Exile, p. 129.
9. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, p. 815.
10. Anders, An Army In Exile, p. 133.
Chapter 5: A Year of Challenge
1. PISM KOL 4-2, p. 98.
2. Sikorski, quoted in McGilvray, A Military Government in Exile, p. 96.
3. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from General Pownall to General Anders, 2 May 1943.
4. Churchill, quoted in McGilvray, A Military Government in Exile, p. 96.
5. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from General Pownall to General Anders, 30 April 1943.
6. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from General Anders to General Pownall, 22 May 1943.
7. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from General Baillon to General Anders, 30 April 1943.
8. National Archive, FO /594/19B, Conversation between Eden and Sikorski, 24 May 1943.
9. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from General Pownall to General Anders, 13 July 1943.
10. Danchev & Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, pp. 429–30.
11. Schwanek, ‘Kazimierz Sosnkowski as Commander-in-Chief’, Journal of Military History, pp. 755–6.
12. Schwanek, ‘Kazimierz Sosnkowski as Commander-in-Chief’, Journal of Military History, pp. 754–5.
13. Gilbert, Road to Victory, p. 442.
14. Churchill, The Second World War, Vol. V: Closing the Ring, p. 34.
15. Danchev and Todman, War Diaries of Alan Brooke, p. 432.
16. National Archives, WO201/1395 C608708, Letter from J.W. Kenny PAIC to General Anders, 17 July 1943.
17. General Wilson quoted in Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 150.
18. Molony et al., The Mediterranean and the Middle East, Volume V, Part II, p. 592.
Chapter 6: Ready to Fight
1. Armed Forces Staff College (US), History of Allied Forces HQ December 1943–July 1944, Part 3, Section 1, pp. 690–1.
2. CinC Dispatch, North African Campaign, MS, p. 1, OCMH files. Quoted in Pogue, The Supreme Command, p. 86.
3. Molony et al., The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol. V, Part I, p. 383.
4. National Archive, FO/954/19B, From Cairo to Foreign Office.
5. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 151.
6. Molony et al., The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol. V, Part II, p. 836.
7. Eden, Memoirs, The Reckoning, p. 416.
8. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 52.
9. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 53.
10. Anders, An Army In Exile, p. xiv.
11. PISM, C292, Chronicle of 3rd Carpathian Rifle Division, 3 May 1942–10 December 1943, p. 44.
12. The Palestine Gazette No. 1302, 25 November 1943.
Chapter 7: The Move to Italy
1. Blumenson, The Patton Papers 1940–1945, Vol. 2, p. 389.
2. Madeja, The Polish 2nd Corps and The Italian Campaign 1943–1945, p. 25.
3. Madeja, The Polish 2nd Corps and The Italian Campaign 1943–1945, p. 25.
4. Madeja, The Polish 2nd Corps and The Italian Campaign 1943–1945, p. 33.
Chapter 8: Mountain Warfare and the Defence of the Sangro River
1. Extract from telegram sent by General Leese to Anders, quoted in Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 155.
2. Armed Forces Staff College (US), History of Allied Forces HQ December 1943–July 1944, p. 689.
3. North, The Alexander Memoirs, p. 155.
4. Loziński, Przechodniu, Powiedz Polsce…, p. 319.
Chapter 9: The Monastic Fortress
1. Majdalany, Cassino, p. 223.
2. Molony et al., The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol. VI, Part I: Victory in The Mediterranean, p. 5.
3. Macmillan, War Diaries, The Mediterranean Years 1943–1945, pp. 389, 390.
4. General Leese, quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 313.
5. Anders, quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, pp. 313, 314.
6. Chocianowicz, Bitwa Pod Monte Cassino, pp. 14–17.
7. Anders, An Army in exile, p. 164.
8. Brigadier Scott, quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, pp. 320–1.
Chapter 10: Preparations for Battle
1. Unattributed quote in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 315.
2. Quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 318.
3. Wańkowicz, Monte Cassino, p. 63.
4. Wańkowicz, Monte Cassino, p. 61.
5. Wańkowicz, Monte Cassino, p. 58.
6. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 208.
Chapter 11: Assault on the Gustav Line
1. Anders, An Army in Exile, p. 174.
2. Leese, quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 318.
3. Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 327.
4. Dębicki, Growing up Wasn’t Easy, http://felsztyn.tripod.com/id23.html
5. Molony et al., The Mediterranean and Middle East, Vol. VI, Part I, p. 111.
Chapter 12: A Brief Respite
1. Quoted in Ellis, Cassino: The Hollow Victory, p. 331.
2. Madeja, The Polish 2nd Corps and The Italian Campaign 1943–1945, p. 20.
Chapter 13: Victory at Monte Cassino
1. Alexander, quoted in Macyszyn, Bitwa o Monte Cassino, p. 62.
Chapter 14: Breaking the Adolf Hitler Line
1. Conversation quoted in Wańkowicz, Monte Cassino, p. 341.
2. Conversation quoted in Wańkowicz, Monte Cassino, p. 345.
Chapter 15: The Aftermath
1. Biegański, Działania 2 Korpusu we Włoszech, p. 287.
2. Letter from Leese to Anders dated 27 May 1944, Barbarski and Englert, General Anders, p. 198.
3. Eade, Victory: The Sixth Volume of Winston Churchill’s War Speeches, p. 58.
4. Statistics from the National Archive Kew FO 371/56366, quoted in Kochanski, The Eagle Unbowed, p. 555.