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Dedication

For Wendy Weil

1940–2012

Epigraph

Saint-Malo, the brightest jewel of the Emerald Coast … The city looked picturesque and solid from the sea but as we got near the landing place we realized that the houses visible above the walls were just burnt-out shells … Of the 865 buildings within the walls, only 182 remained standing and all were damaged to some degree.

—Philip Beck

It would not have been possible for us to take power or to use it in the ways we have without the radio.

—Joseph Goebbels

Contents

Part Zero: 7 August 1944

Leaflets

Bombers

The Girl