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of English-speaking readers. They will no doubt infuriate philological purists, but have been adopted in the belief that ordinary mortals are no less confused by official phonetic systems as by foreign orthography. In the case of place names, English forms are used wherever they exist – as in Warsaw, Cracow or Lodz. Where no English form is available, limited changes have been made. In the case of street names, the original forms have been translated if possible – as in New World Street, Long Street, Three Crosses Square, or Jerusalem Avenue. Otherwise, they, too, have been modified. In the case of personal names, well-known items such as Sikorski, Wojtyła, or Wałsa have been left in the original; and anglicized forms such as Casimir, Stanislas, or Thaddeus are used where appropriate. As far as possible, however, the difficulties have been obviated either by reducing surnames to initials – Maria D. for Maria Dbrowska or Adam M. for Adam Mickiewicz – or by resorting exclusively to the pseudonyms. Detailed explanations of the changes may be found in Appendix 35, or on occasion in relevant endnotes.
    I owe many thanks to many institutions and to many individuals. Among the institutions, I would single out the Karta Centre in Warsaw, the Polish Underground Study Trust, the Home Army Veterans Association, the Hoover Institution, the Roosevelt Library, the Public Record Office, the State Archives of the Russian Federation, the Wolfson College Library, and the British Academy. The latter generously awarded me a Small Research Grant.
    Among the individuals, I must mention my chief researcher Roger Moorhouse, my special adviser, Mr Andrzej Suchcitz, and a long list of consultants, including Dr Andrzej Krzysztof Kunert, Dr Alison Millett, Mr Zbigniew Staczyk, Dr Krzysztof Szwagrzyk, Mgr Michaela Todorowa and Mr Zbigniew Siemaszko. Valuable assistance was also rendered by Professor Andrzej Ajnenkiel, Professor W. Bartoszewski, Gill Beeston, Katarzyna Benda, Anthony Beevor, Włodzimierz Bolecki, Krzysztof Boejewicz, Alexander Boyd, Cathy Brocklehurst, Professor W. Brus, Tadeusz Filipkowski, Max Hastings, Professor Jerzy Holzer, Dr Polly Jones, Professor L. Kołakowski, Dr Maria Korzeniewicz, Glenda Lane, Bolesław Mazur, Jan Nowak-Jezioraski, Professor Krystyna Orzechowska-Juzwenko, Dr Z. Pełczyski, Michael Schmidt, Professor Tomasz Strzembosz, Luba Vinogradova, Ken Wilson, Wanda Wyporska, and Michał Zarzycki.
    The number of people who kindly responded to requests for information, completed questionnaires, contributed their reminiscences, or otherwise engaged in correspondence, is almost too large to mention. Several in the meantime have passed on. But all have earned my sincere gratitude. Their contributions, great and small, have given the book a very special, and I would hope, an authentic flavour: Jerzy Adamski, Stanisław Aronson, Stanisław Baraski, Wojciech Baraski, Maria Bobrzyska (née Peygert), Zbigniew Borkiewicz, Dr Anna Borkiewicz-Celiska, Stanisław Brzosko, Marek Burdajewicz, Bogdan Celiski, Wiesław Chodorowski, Antoni Chomicki, Z. Drymulski, Jolanta Dzierawska-aczkiewicz, Jacek Fedorowicz, W. Fiedler, Irena Findeisen (née Zieleniewska) now Bellert, Anna Frczek, Czesław Gawłowski, Maria Getka, Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski, Zbigniew Grabiaski, Lech A. Halko, Jan Hoppe, Anna Jakubowska, Father Andrzej Janicki, Ryszard Kapuciski, Stanisław Karolkiewicz, Lucjan Kindlein, Professor Jerzy Kłoczowski, Adam Komorowski, Edward Kossoj, Bogusław Koziorowski, Czesław Kwaniewski, Wanda Lesisz-Gutowska, Stanislas Likiernik, Lech Lipiski, Jerzy Lunicz-Adamski, Irena Makowska, Halina Martinowa, Kamila Merwartowa, Wacław Micuta, Krystyna Mierzejewska, Zbigniew Edward Mróz, Sebastian Niewiadomski, Andrzej Nowakowski, Zofia Nowiak, Izabela Nowicka-Kuczyska, Elbieta Ostrowska, Feliks Ostrowski, Mieczysław Pawłowski, Wiesław Polkowski, Waldemar Pomaski, Danuta Przyszłasz, Zofia Radecka, Jan Rakowicz (Radajewski),