22
Much use has been made in the preceding few pages of material to be found in Lieutenant General Henry J. Irving’s memoirs, entitled Line of Duty (Grosset and Dunlop, New York 1986), see particularly pp. 263, 264-5, 271, 279. We have not been able wholly to endorse General Irving’s approach but are grateful for the source material his book so freely makes available.
23
See Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., pp. 266-76.
24
ibid., pp. 266-76.
25
See the article by defecting North Korean Ambassador, Kim Kwon-sang, in the Dong a Ilbo of 31 October 1985 (Seoul, South Korea).
26
For a splendid account of all the excitement, see the article by T. Sakanaka in Asahi Shimbun, 30 August 1985.
27
See Sir John Hackett and others, op. cit., chapter 25, 'The Destruction of Birmingham', pp. 287 ff.
28
Alyosha Petrovich Narishkin, A Phoenix Out of Ashes (Bantam, New York 1986), pp. 55-6.
29
The taped record of this conversation found its way into the hands of an enterprising Italian journalist. The version given above was published in La Stampa on 25 June 1986.
