Churchill's Wizards

by Nicholas Rankin

  Blunt, Anthony, 1, 2

  bodies: dummy, Plate 1

  Boer War, Second see South African War

  bombing see air raids

  bombs: disguising, 1

  Bone, Muirhead, 1

  Bonham Carter, Violet, 1, 2

  Borges, Jorge Luis, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  ‘Borges and Myself’ (Borges), 1

  Bosman, Henry Charles, 1

  Bouchard, Henri, 1

  Boulogne evacuation (1940), 1

  Boulting, Roy, 1

  Bourne, Maj Gen Alan, 1

  Bouvet, 1

  Bowler, Kitty, 1

  Boyce, Fredric, 1

  Bracken, Brendan, 1

  Braque, Georges, 1

  Braun, Max, 1

  Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of (1918), 1

  bribery, 1, 2

  Brickhill, Paul, 1

  bridges: camouflaged, 1

  Bright, Joan see Astley, Joan Bright

  Britain GENERAL: Hitler’s attitude to, 1;

  inter-war rearmament, 1;

  Iraq policy, 1;

  oldest ally, 1;

  origins of secret service rivalry, 1;

  Orwell on the British, 1;

  and showmanship, 1

  ww1: atmosphere in lead-up to, 1, 2, 3;

  cost, 1, 2;

  Department of Information, 1, 2;

  governments during, 1, 2, 3;

  Ministry of Information, 1, 2;

  reasons for entry to, 1

  ww2: atmosphere at outbreak, 1;

  arms production, 1;

  Fifth Column fears, 1;

  German planned invasion, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  governments during, 1;

  Hitler’s peace offer, 1;

  home defence, 1, 2,

  Plate 1;

  home front camouflage, 1, 2;

  Ministry of Aircraft Production, 1;

  Ministry of Economic Warfare (MEW), 1, 2;

  Ministry of Information (MoI), 1, 2;

  popular move to Socialism, 1;

  reasons for entry to, 1;

  relations with Americans, 1;

  see also Royal Flying Corps; Royal Navy

  Britain, Battle of (1940), 1

  British Army: 95th Rifles, 1;

  helmets, 1;

  losses in France in 1940, 1;

  Lovat Scouts, 1, 2, 3;

  phantom forces, 1, 2, 3;

  shooting skills and training, 1, 2;

  uniforms, 1, 2

  British Army School of Camouflage, 1, 2,

  Plates 1

  British Council, 1

  British Empire Marketing Board, 1

  British Petroleum (BP), 1, 2, 3

  ‘British Restaurants’, 1

  British Somaliland, 1

  British Union of Fascists, 1, 2

  Brodie, John L., 1

  Brooke, Gen Sir Alan, 1, 2, 3

  Brooke, Rupert, 1, 2

  Brown, Gordon, 1

  Brownlow, Kevin, 1

  Brudenell White, Lt Col, 1

  Bruneval Raid (1942), 1, 2

  Brüning, Dr, 1

  BRUTUS (R. Garby-Czerniawski), 1

  Bryce, James, 1

  Buccleuch, Duke of, 1

  Buchan, Alastair, 1

  Buchan, John GENERAL: background, 1;

  on Beaverbrook, 1;

  birthday, 1;

  effect of novels on WW2 generation, 1;

  friends lost in WW1, 1;

  on Gallipoli, 1, 2;

  on Kitchener, 1;

  and Lawrence of Arabia, 1;

  and propaganda, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and war fund-raising, 1;

  as war journalist, 1;

  and WW1’s outbreak, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and WW2, 1;

  on Ypres, 1 WORKS BY: The Courts of the Morning, 2;

  Greenmantle, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  John Macnab, 1;

  ‘The Loathly Opposite’, 1;

  Mr Standfast, 1, 2;

  The Thirty-Nine Steps, 1, 2;

  The Three Hostages, 1, 2

  Buckley, Col Richard McLean, 1, 2

  buildings: camouflaged and dummy, 1, 2, 3;

  QF sites, 1;

  SF (Starfish) sites, 1

  Bull, Wally, 1

  Burma, 1, 2

  Burstall, Gen H. E., 1

  Butcher, Harry C., 1

  Byam, Guy, 1

  Byron, Robert, 1

  Cabinet War Rooms, 1

  Calais evacuation (1940), 1

  Calvert, Michael, 1, 2, 3

  Calvo, Luis, 1

  Cameron, Cpl Donald, 1

  camouflage and decoys GENERAL: culture-specificity, 1;

  etymology, 1;

  in nature, 1;

  netting invented, 1;

  principles of, 1, 2;

  tricks to see through, 1, 2;

  use of steel wool, 1 ww1: airfields, 2;

  artillery, 1, 2;

  bodies, Plate 1;

  bridges, 1;

  British, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  British Army School of 1;

  first official recognition, 1;

  French, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  German, 1, 2, 3;

  heads, 1, 2, Plate 3;

  horses, 1; landmarks, 2;

  machine-gun posts, 1, 2, Plate 3;

  observation posts, 1, 2;

  roads, 1;

  ships, 1, 2, 3,

  Plates 1;

  Special Works Parks, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  tanks, 1, Plate 2;

  training, Plates 1;

  trenches, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  uniforms, 1, 2, 3

  ww2: aircraft, 1, 2, 3,

  Plate 1;

  airfields, 1;

  artillery, 1, 2;

  British home defence, 1,

  Plate 1;

  British organis ations and individuals involved, 1;

  buildings, 1, 2, 3;

  and film industry, 1;

  for guerrillas, 1, 2, 3;

  landing craft, 1,

  Plate 1;

  and Normandy landings, 1, 2;

  in North Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  oil terminals, 1;

  pipelines, 1;

  railways, 1, 2;

  ships, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Sicily, 1; SOE, 2,

  Plate 1;

  stores, 1;

  Sunshields, 1, 2;

  tanks, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,

  Plate 1;

  trucks, 1;

  use of ice, 1

  Camouflage Research Establishment (CRE), 1

  Camp 020, 1

  Campbell, Capt Gordon, 1

  Canaris, Adm Wilhelm, 1

  Cannadine, David, 1

  ‘Cannibals’, 1

  Capa, Robert, 1

  Carline, Richard and Sydney, 1

  CARLOS (Karl-Erich Kühlenthal), 1

  Carlyon, L. A., 1

  carrier pigeons, 1

  Carsbreck, 1

  Carson, Sir Edward, 1, 2

  Camouflage, 1, 2;

  Dardanelles,

  Casablanca conference (1943), 1, 2

  Casement, Roger, 1, 2

  Castlerosse, Valentine, 1

  Cavalcanti, Alberto, 1

  Cave-Brown-Cave, Wg Cdr T. R., 1

  Cavell, Edith, 1, 2,

  Plate 1

  Cavendish-Bentinck, Bill, 1

  CBS, 1

  censorship, 1, 2, 3

  Centurie network, 1

  Central Institute of Art and Design, 1

  Chamberlain, Austen, 1

  Chamberlain, Neville, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Chaplin, Charlie, 1

  Chappell, Ernest, 1

  Charteris, Brigadier John, 1, 2

  Chauvel, Harry, 1

  CHEESE network, 1, 2

  Chesney, Lt Col. C. H. R., 1

  Chesterton, Cecil, 1

  Chesterton, G. K., 1, 2

  Chetwode, Sir Philip, 1, 2, 3

  Cholmondeley, Flight Lt Charles, 1

  Christiansen, Arthur, 1

  Christus der K�
�nig, 1

  Churchill, Clementine, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Churchill, Randolph, 1

  Churchill, Winston GENERAL: author’s verdict on justification of deception methods, 1;

  Brooke’s obituary, 1;

  education, 1;

  on fighting with allies, 1, 2;

  on Hitler, 1;

  on India, 1;

  later life, 1;

  Lawrence of Arabia’s influence, 1;

  and painting, 1;

  on rifles, 1;

  and RN fuel, 1;

  on The Secret Battle, 1;

  on Shaw, 1;

  as showman, 1;

  on truth and lies in wartime, 1, 2;

  on war, vi ww1: and air power, 1;

  and air reconnaissance, 1;

  at the Armistice, 1;

  in the army, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and Dardanelles, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  on desirability of moving the trenches, 1;

  earliest interest in deception, 1;

  and French, 1;

  and Freyberg, 1;

  on German occupation of Europe, 1;

  and Northcliffe, 1;

  at outbreak, 1, 2;

  on Palestine campaign, 1;

  photos, Plate 1;

  political career, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  preparations for war, 1;

  on Sarajevo, 1;

  on the Somme, 1;

  souvenir from wrecked Zeppelin, 1;

  strategy, 1;

  and tanks, 1;

  and U-boats, 1, 2;

  on USA’s entry, 1 INTER-WAR: alliance with Germans considered, 2;

  as Colonial Secretary, 1 ww2: and Balkans, 2;

  on Battle of Britain, 1;

  becomes PM and forms government, 1, 2;

  behaviour under strain, 1;

  cartoons and caricatures, 1, 2;

  at Casablanca conference, 1, 2;

  and Clarke’s Madrid incident, 1, 2;

  and commandos, 1, 2;

  and deception, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  on Dill, 1;

  and Dunkirk, 1, 2, 3;

  on fall of France, 1;

  and Fifth Column, 1, 2;

  and film industry, 1;

  as First Lord of Admiralty, 1;

  and German planned invasion, 1, 2;

  and home defence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

  and Ireland, 1;

  maintenance of secrecy, 1;

  and MINCEMEAT, 1;

  and Monty’s double, 1, 2;

  and Normandy landings, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  and North Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8;

  and Norwegian campaign, 1;

  at outbreak, 1, 2;

  photos, Plate 1,

  Plate 1;

  on possibility of new enemy weapons, 1;

  and propaganda, 1, 2;

  on public anxiety about air raids, 1;

  at Quebec conference, 1;

  and Sicily, 1;

  and SOE, 1;

  at Teheran conference, 1;

  terms used for early war, 1;

  and Turkey, 1;

  and V symbol, 1;

  and V weapons, 1

  CICERO, 1

  Clamorgan, Lt, 1

  Clark, Kenneth, 1

  Clarke, Basil, 1

  Clarke, Dudley: after the war, 1, 2;

  background, character and appearance, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and BEF evacuations, 1, 2;

  as chief staff officer to Dill, 1, 2;

  and commandos, 1;

  on deception, 1;

  and Double Cross Committee, 1;

  and establishment of ‘A’ Force, 1, 2, 3;

  ingenuity, 1;

  inter-war, 1, 2, 3;

  in Ireland, 1;

  in Lisbon, 1;

  Madrid incident, 1,

  Plate 1;

  memoirs, 1;

  and MINCEMEAT, 1;

  and Monty’s double, 1, 2;

  and Normandy landings, 1;

  North African operations, 1, 2;

  offered LCS top job, 1;

  and outbreak of WW2, 1, 2;

  and phantom forces, 1, 2, 3;

  photo, Plate 1;

  and SAS, 1;

  and Sicily, 1;

  theatricality, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and TORCH, 1, 2;

  torpedoed, 1;

  in Turkey, 1;

  and WW1, 1, 2

  Clarke, Ernest, 1

  Clarke, T. E. B., 1, 2

  Clarkson, Willie, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Clausewitz, Carl von, 1, 2

  Clayton, Antony, 1

  Clayton, Gilbert, 1, 2, 3

  Clayton, Pat, 1

  Clifford, Alexander, 1, 2, 3

  Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1

  Cocos Islands, 1

  codes and ciphers: USA, 1;

  WW1, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  WW2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Codner, John, 1

  Coleshill House, 1

  Colville, John, 1, 2

  Colvin, Ian, 1

  commandos: and Auxiliary Units, 1;

  foundation and early days, 1, 2;

  French raids, 1, 2;

  in Middle East, 1;

  in North Africa, 1;

  training and way of life, 1

  communications see radio; telegraph; telephones

  Communist Party of Great Britain, 1

  concentration camps: Allies enter, 1;

  British radio broadcasts about, 1;

  German first, 1, 2, 3;

  and industry, 1; Soviet, 2

  conscientious objectors, 1

  convoy system, 1

  Conway, Sir Martin, 1

  Cooper, Lady Diana, 1, 2

  Cooper, Duff, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Cooper, Robert, 1

  Coppard, George, 1, 2

  Cossack, HMS, 1

  Cott, Dr Hugh, 1, 2, 3

  Courbin, Sgt Eugène, 1

  The Courts of the Morning (Buchan), 1

  Coward, Noel, 1

  Cowles, Virginia, 1, 2

  Cox, Sir Percy, 1

  Creighton, Walter, 1

  Cressey, HMS, 1

  Crete, 1, 2

  Crewe, Lord, 1

  Crewe House, 1, 2

  Crichton, Betty, 1

  Cripps, Sir Stafford, 1

  Crockatt, Norman, 1

  Crocker, Mark, 1

  Croft, Andrew, 1

  Crossman, Richard, 1, 2, 3

  Cunningham, Adm Sir Andrew, 1

  Curran, Joan, 1

  Curry, John, 1

  Curzon, Lord, 1

  Cyprus, 1, 2

  Czechoslovakia: Sudetenland, 1

  D-Day landings see Normandy landings

  Dachau, 1, 2

  Dad’s Army (TV series), 1

  Daily Mail, 1

  Daily Mirror, 1

  Daily Worker, 1

  Dalton, Hugh, 1, 2

  Damascus, 1, 2

  Danchev, Alex, 1

  Dansey, Claude, 1, 2

  Dardanelles campaign (1915 ), 1, 2, 3

  Darrow, Clarence, 1

  Davis, Richard Harding, 1

  Dawnay, Guy, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Day, Gerald Langston, 1

  de Gaulle, Gen Charles, 1, 2

  de Valera, Eamon, 1, 2

  deception: author on justification, 1;

  origins, 1;

  reasons for long-lasting security, 1

  The Deception Planners (Wheatley), 1, 2

  decoys see camouflage and decoys

  Defence of the Realm Act (DoRA), 1

  Delavenay, Emile, 1, 2

  DeLillo, Don, 1

  Delmer, Denis Sefton ‘Tom’: after the war, 1;

  appearance, 1;

  background and character, 1, 2;

  dramatic representations, 1;

  on fall of France, 1;

  and Fleming, 1, 2;

  ON FUSAG deception, 1;

  inter-war in Germany, 1;

  inter-war in Spain, 1;

  and LCS, 1;

  and Normandy landings, 1, 2;


  photo, Plate 1;

  plan to feed false news into German system, 1;

  propaganda and black broadcasts, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Delmer, Frederick Sefton, 1, 2, 3

  Denham Studios, 1, 2

  Denniston, Alastair, 1, 2, 3

  Deraa, 1, 2

  Desert Victory (documentary film), 1, 2

  The Devil Rides Out (Wheatley), 1

  Dewar, George A. B., 1

  Dewavrin, André, 1

  Dieppe Raid (1942), 1

  Dietrich, Marlene, 1

  Dietrich, Sepp, 1

  Dighton, John, 1

  Dill, Lt Gen Sir John: in BEF, 1;

  as CIGS, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  and Clarke’s Madrid incident, 1;

  and Dunkirk, 1;

  in Palestine, 1;

  remarriage, 1

  Dimbleby, Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Disenchantment (Montague), 1, 2, 3

  disguises: human, 1; see also camouflage and decoys

  Dobinson, Colin, 1

  documentaries: film, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  radio, 1

  Donovan, Col William J. ‘Wild Bill’, 1

  Double Cross Committee, 1, 2, 3

  Doughty-Wylie, Lt Col Richard ‘Dick’, 1

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dreadnought hoax (1910), 1

  Dunkirk evacuation (1940), 1, 2, 3

  Dunn, Capt J. C., 1

  Ealing Films, 1, 2

  Eastwood, Lt Gen Sir Ralph ‘Rusty’, 1

  Ebert, Friedrich, 1

  Eden, Anthony, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Edmonds, Brig Gen Sir James E., 1, 2, 3

  Edward VIII, King, 1, 2

  Egypt, 1, 2

  EH (Electra House), Department, 1, 2, 3

  Eire see Ireland

  Eisenhower, Gen Dwight D. ‘Ike’, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  El Alamein: First Battle of (1942), 1;

  Second Battle of (1942), 1

  el-Masri, Abdul Aziz, 1

  Elizabeth II, Queen, 1

  Emden, SMS, 1

  The English Patient (Ondaatje), 1

  Enigma, 1, 2

  Erecting a Camouflage Tree (painting; Underwood), 1

  Eritrea, 1, 2

  Ernst, Max, 1

  Erzerum, 1

  espionage: British control of German, 1;

  British fear of German, 1;

  British interrogation centre, 1;

  British long-lasting secrecy about, 1;

  Europe, 1, 2, 3, 4;

  faked resistance within Germany, 1;

  German, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

  in Greece, 1;

  Middle East and North Africa, 1, 2;

  and Monty’s double, 1;

  and Normandy landings, 1, 2;

  SOE gadgets and disguises for, 1;

  SOE in Netherlands, 1, 2;

  and V weapons, 1;

  Venlo incident, 1;

  WW1, 1;

  see also GARBO

  Ethiopia (formerly Abyssinia): Allied liberation, 1, 2;

  Italian invasion, 1, 2; WW1, 3

  evacuation, 1, 2

  Evetts, Col. Jack, 1

  Ewing, Sir Alfred, 1

  Eyre, Richard, 1

  Facey, Albert, 1

  factories: dummy, 1

  Fairbairn, Major, 1

  Falsehood in War-Time (Ponsonby), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Fanning Island, 1

  Far East: WW2, 1, 2

  Farr, Walter, 1

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1