Will the weevil delay? Creative writing and the cold war

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Notes

1 For competing claims see Alex Danchev, ‘The Real Waugh’, Diplomatic History 25 (2001), pp. 473–89.

2 See Seamus Heaney, ‘England's Difficulty’, in Opened Ground (London: Faber, 1998), p. 85.

3 T. S. Eliot, ‘Gerontion’, in Collected Poems (London: Faber, 1974), p. 41. Cf. David C. Martin, The Wilderness of Mirrors (New York: Ballantine, 1981), one of Littell's key sources.

4 Michael Herman, Intelligence Power in Peace and War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996).

5 H. Bradford Westerfield, ‘A UK insider's cleared intelligence treatise’, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 10 (199?), pp. 369–73.

6 Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot [1956] (London: Faber, 1965), pp. 79–80.

7 John Lewis Gaddis, We Now Know (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997); Richard Crockatt, The Fifty Years War (London: Routledge, 1995).

8 Cf. Richard Overy, Why the Allies Won (London: Cape, 1995).

9 Interview on BBC ‘Omnibus’, 19 February 1991.