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9. Ibid., Ambassador Kelley, Ankara, to State Dept., 18 Oct 1943.

10. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, CCS to Eisenhower, 24 Oct 1943.

11. Ibid., telegram Eden to Churchill, 23 Oct 1943; Eden to Churchill, 29 Oct 1943.

12. Frederick B. Chary, The Bulgarian Jews and the Final Solution 1940–1944 (Pittsburgh: 1972), 129–32; Miller, Bulgaria, 102–6.

13. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, Churchill to Eden and Deputy Prime Minister Attlee, 25 Dec 1943.

14. Akten zur Deutschen auswärtigen Politik, Ser E, Band VII, Ambassador Beckerle to von Ribbentrop, 23 Jan 1944, 349–50.

15. TNA, PREM 3/66/10, War Cabinet JIC Report, ‘Effects of Allied Bombing of Balkans and Balkan Situation’, 29 Jan 1944, 1–2; FDRL, Roosevelt papers, Map Room Files, Box 136, HQ MAAF to War Department, 10 Jan 1944; Rumenin, Letyashti Kreposti, 107–9.

16. Miller, Bulgaria, 167–8; Walter Warlimont, Inside Hitler’s Headquarters 1939–1945 (London: 1964), 399. Warlimont was in Bulgaria to discuss Operation Gertrude, a contingency plan for the capture of European Turkey if the Turks joined the Allies.

17. Crampton, Bulgaria, 273–4.

18. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, Roosevelt to Churchill, 9 Feb 1944.

19. FDRL, Map Room files, CoS to Eisenhower’s HQ, 9 Mar 1944; TNA, PREM 3/79/1, CoS, ‘Air Operations against Bulgaria’, 27 Jan 1944; Churchill to General Wilson, 27 Jan 1944.

20. RAFM, Bottomley papers, AC 71/2/29, Note by the Air Staff for War Cabinet Inter-Service Committee on Chemical Warfare, 23 Jan 1944, Annex 1.

21. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, Churchill to Roosevelt, 11 Feb 1944 and 12 Feb 1944.

22. Ibid., Roosevelt to Churchill, 12 Feb 1944.

23. Ibid., Lord Killearn (Cairo) to the Foreign Office, 24 Feb 1944; Lord Killearn to the Foreign Office, 24 Feb 1944, encl. report from Mr Howard, 1–3; Crampton, Bulgaria, 275–6.

24. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, Eden to Churchill, 3 Mar 1944, 1–3, 8.

25. Ibid., Portal to Churchill, 10 Mar 1944.

26. Rumenin, Letyashti Kreposti, 125; AFHRA, 519.12535, Fifteenth Air Force Operations (Bulgaria), Nov 1943–July 1944.

27. Miller, Bulgaria, 168–80.

28. FDRL, Map Room files, Box 136, CoS to Wilson and General Carl Spaatz, 25 Mar 1944; TNA, PREM 3/66/10, Portal to Wilson and Spaatz, 28 Mar 1944; Portal to Wilson and Spaatz, 11 Apr 1944.

29. TNA, PREM 3/66/10, Joint Staff Mission, Washington, DC, 21 July 1944, 1–2; CoS memorandum, 25 July 1944.

30. TNA, PREM 3/79/5, War Cabinet minute by Anthony Eden, ‘Bulgaria’, 17 Mar 1945.

31. Percy Schramm (ed), Kriegstagebuch des OKW: Eine Dokumentation: 1943, Band 3, Teilband 2 (Augsburg: 2007), 1,089.

32. Michael M. Boll (ed), The American Military Mission in the Allied Control Commission for Bulgaria 1944–1947 (New York: 1985), 38–42.

33. Peter Donnelly (ed), Mrs. Milburn’s Diaries: An Englishwoman’s Day-to-Day Reflections 1939–1945 (London: 1979), 100, entry for 14 June 1941.

34. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, note by Churchill on telegram Tedder (MAAF) to Churchill, 29 Dec 1943; note by Churchill on letter from Lord Killearn to the Foreign Office, 9 Mar 1944.

35. TNA, PREM 3/66/10, JSM Report, 21 July 1944, 1.

36. TsAMO f.500, 0.725168d.319, Luftwaffe Generalstab, ‘Luftwehrgeographische Beschreibung von Grossbritannien 1938’, edn of 6 Mar 1940.

37. Haywood Hansell, The Air Plan that Defeated Hitler (Atlanta: 1972), 81–3.

38. TNA, PREM 3/79/1, telegram from British CoS to JSM, Washington, DC, 20 Oct 1943.

39. CamUL, Baldwin papers, vol 1, Londonderry to Baldwin, 17 July 1934.

40. Vera Brittain, England’s Hour (London: 2005), xiv (first publ. 1941).

41. TNA, AIR 40/288 Air Intelligence (Liaison), ‘The Blitz’, 14 Aug 1941, App A, ‘Morale’, 1.

42. On this see Peter Gray, ‘The Gloves Will Have to Come Off: A Reappraisal of the Legitimacy of the RAF Bomber Offensive against Germany’, Air Power Review, 13 (2010), 9–40.