Lynne Olson

“their mother.” All over England, other citadels of the British class system were falling to the Poles. One 303 Squadron pilot, shot…

— Lynne Olson

“we’re inclined to say what we think, even when we have not thought very much.”

— Lynne Olson

“In Europe, Murrow observed to his wife, people were dying and "a thousand years of civilization [were] being smashed" while America remained…

— Lynne Olson

“Not until the twenty-first century did the British government finally acknowledge officially that the Poles had indeed played a role in breaking…

— Lynne Olson

“On your marks, he had said to the nation, for a race with destiny.… Get set for the greatest effort of our…

— Lynne Olson

“On June 8, 1946, Britain staged an elaborate victory parade, inviting armed forces from more than thirty Allied nations to London in…

— Lynne Olson

“At the Yalta Conference in early 1945, Franklin Roosevelt had made it clear that he had little interest in further close collaboration…

— Lynne Olson

“Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema noted that "through the entire war, one dream never left us, not for single day : our homecoming to…

— Lynne Olson

“Soon after joining the agency, Marks set out to lessen the danger. His first step was to get rid of the codes…

— Lynne Olson

“Those who thought of collaboration in simplistic terms could not comprehend the reality of trying to survive in an uncivilized, unstable environment…

— Lynne Olson

“Two months earlier, Victor de Laveleye, the organizer of BBC programs to Belgium, had urged his compatriots to demonstrate their resistance to…

— Lynne Olson

“In 1945, the schoolchildren of Arnhem volunteered to care for the graves of the more than 1,700 Allied dead, mostly Britons and…

— Lynne Olson

“It seems to me that the only way to strengthen the morale of the people whose morale is worth strengthening, is to…

— Lynne Olson

“Again and again, the question was asked: What made the Poles so good? The answer wasn’t simple. Generally older than their British…

— Lynne Olson