Churchill's Wizards

Page 58

by Nicholas Rankin

Macmillan, Harold, 1

Macmillan, Lord (Hugh Macmillan), 1

McPhail, Angus, 1

Macpherson, Sandy, 1

Madrid, 1

Mahan, R Adm Alfred Thayer, 1

Malta, 1

The Man Who Never Was (book and film), 1

‘The Man Who Never Was’ see operations: MINCEMEAT

Manica, HMS, 1

Mansel, Philip, 1

Marconi, Guglielmo, 1

Mare, André, 1

Marks, Leo, 1, 2

Marlowe, John, 1

Mary, Queen, 1

Masefield, John, 1, 2

Maskelyne, Jasper, 1

Massey, W. T., 1

Masterman, Charles, 1, 2, 3, 4

Masterman, J. C., 1, 2

Masters, Antony, 1

Masters, John, 1

Maugham, W. Somerset, 1

Maunsell, Brigadier Raymond, 1, 2, 3

Maxted, Stanley, 1

Maxwell, Sir Alexander, 1

Mecca, 1, 2, 3, 4

Medina, 1, 2

Medley, Robert, 1

Meinertzhagen, Col. Richard, 1, 2, 3, 4

Menzies, Stewart, 1, 2

Mersa Matruh, 1

Mesopotamia see Iraq

Messines Ridge, 1

Mezerib station, 1

MI3, 1, 2

MI5 (Security Service): ‘B’ Division, 1;

and British Fifth Column fears, 1;

and Clarke, 1;

Double Cross System, 1;

and GARBO, 1;

and Monty’s double, 1;

and Normandy landings, 1, 2;

Section BIA, 1;

and TORCH, 1;

see also Double Cross Committee

MI6 (SIS): agents’ activities, 1;

organisations under umbrella, 1;

relations with MI9, 1;

secret radio stations, 1;

see also Double Cross Committee

MI7, 1

MI9, 1, 2, 3, 4

MI (R), 1, 2, 3

Middle East: first coinage of term, 1;

inter-war, 1, 2, 3;

strategic importance, 1;

WW1, 1, 2;

WW2, 1, 2, 3, 4

Millais, John Everett, 1

Miller, Alice Duer, 1

Miller, Lee, 1, 2

Mills, Bertram, 1

Mills, Cyril, 1

Milner, Lord, 1, 2, 3, 4

Mittler, Wolf, 1

MO9, 1

Moana (documentary film), 1

Mohs, Polly A., 1

Moltke, Gen. von, 1

Monash, Brigadier John, 1

Monchy-le-Preux, 1

Mond, Sir Alfred, 1

Monnington, Tom, 1

Monopoly sets: fake, 1

Monro, Sir Charles Carmichael, 1, 2, 3, 4

Montagu, Edwin, 1

Montagu, Lt Commander Ewen, 1, 2, 3

Montagu, Sir Samuel, 1

Montagu, Venetia, 1

Montague, C. E., 1, 2, 3

Montgomery, Field Marshal Bernard: and Auxiliary Units, 1;

background and character, 1; double, 2,

Plate 1;

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

in North Africa, 1;

showmanship, 1;

and Sicily, 1

Montgomery, Revd William, 1

Moore, Arthur, 1

Moore-Brabazon, Major John, 1

Moorehead, Alan: in Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

on Gallipoli, 1, 2;

on propaganda, 1;

on Sicily, 1;

on Wavell, 1

Mora, Constancia de la, 1

Morgan, Charles, 1

Morgan, Diana, 1

Morgan, Lt Gen Frederick, 1, 2

Morocco, 1, 2

Morrison, Herbert, 1, 2

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 1, 2

Mountbatten, Lord Louis, 1, 2, 3

Mr Britling Sees it Through (Wells), 1

Mr Standfast (Buchan), 1, 2

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1

Muhammad, Prophet, 1

Mulberry harbours, 1, 2

Müller, Heinrich, 1

Müller, Karl von, 1

Mumford, Lewis, 1

Munro, H. H. see Saki

Mure, David, 1, 2

Murray, Gilbert, 1

Murrow, Edward R., 1, 2

Mussolini, Benito, 1, 2, 3

Mustapha ben Haroun, Sheikh, 1

Nabokov, Vladimir, 1

Nachrichten für die Truppen (newspaper), 1, 2, 3

Namier, Lewis, 1

Namsos, 1

Narvik, 1

Nash, Paul, 1, 2

Naujocks, Major Alfred Helmut, 1, 2

Naval Intelligence Division (NID), 1, 2, 3

Nazi Party: predilection for deception, 1;

rise to power, 1

Neame, Ronald, 1

Neate, Arthur, 1

Neave, Airey, 1

Nelson, Tommy, 1

Netherlands: BBC Dutch Service, 1;

German invasion (1940), 1, 2;

rumours of Fifth Column, 1;

SOE agents, 1, 2;

V campaign, 1

Neuve Chapelle, Battle of (1915), 1

Nevinson, C. R. W., 1, 2

Nevinson, Henry, 1

Newsome, Noel, 1

newspapers, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Nicholas II, Tsar, 1

Nicholson, Ben, 1

Nicholson, Brig Claude, 1

Nicolson, Harold, 1, 2, 3, 4

Niven, David, 1, 2

Norman, Sir Montague, 1

Normandy landings (1944), 1;

German defences, 1;

logistics, 1;

phantom forces, 1, 2, 3;

uncertainty of Allied victory, 1;

unusual machines used, 1

North, Richard, 1

North Africa: TORCH landings, 1, 2;

WW2, 1, 2, 3, 4;

see also Morocco

Northcliffe, Lord (Alfred Harmsworth), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Norton, Maj, 1

Norway, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Nowell-Smith, Simon, 1

Nuremberg rallies, 1

Nürnberg, SMS, 1, 2

Nye, Gen Archibald, 1

OB40, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Oberon, Merle, 1

observation posts: camouflaged, 1, 2

Ocean, HMS, 1

O’Connor, Gen, 1, 2

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 1, 2

oil, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

oil terminals: dummy, 1

Oliver, R. A. Henry, 1

Olivier, Laurence, 1

Olympic, SS, Plate 1

Ondaatje, Michael, 1

One Family (film), 1

Operation Heartbreak (Cooper), 1, 2

operations: ABEAM (1941), 1;

BERTRAM (1942), 1;

BRIMSTONE (1943), 1;

CAMILLA (1941), 1;

COLLAR (1940), 1;

COMPASS (1940), 1;

COPPERHEAD (1944), 1;

CRUSADER (1941), 1, 2, 3;

DIAMOND (1942), 1;

ERROR (1942), 1;

GELB (YELLOW; 1940), 1;

GLIMMER (1944), 1;

HUSKY (1943), 1;

KONSERVE (1939), 1;

MARTELLO (1942), 1;

MINCEMEAT (1943), 1, 2, 3, 4,

Plate 1;

NEPTUNE (1944), 1, 2;

OVERLORD (1944), 1;

PERIWIG (1945), 1;

SENTINEL (1942), 1;

TAXABLE (1944), 1;

TITANIC (1944), 1;

TORCH (1942), 1, 2;

see also plans

Ops (B), 1, 2

Orpen, William, 1

Orwell, George, 1, 2, 3, 4

Osterley Park School, 1, 2

Othman von Stotzingen, Maj Freiherr, 1

Our First O. P. Tree (painting; Solomon), 1

Owen, Frank, 1, 2

Owen, Wilfred, 1

Owens, Alfred s
ee SNOW

Page, Geoffrey, 1, 2, 3

Paget, Harry, 1, 2, 3, 4

Palestine: inter-war, 1, 2;

WW1, 1, 2, 3, 4;

WW2, 1, 2

Papen, Franz von, 1, 2, 3, 4

Pargust, HMS, 1

Paris: camouflaging, 1;

German occupation, 1

Parker, Sir Gilbert, 1

Partridge, Eric, 1

Passchendaele, Battle of (1917), 1, 2

Patton, Gen George S. Jr, 1, 2, 3

Peacock, Sir Edward, 1

Peake Pasha, 1

Pearl Harbor, 1, 2

Pearson, Harry, 1

Penrose, Roland, 1, 2, 3

Percival, Gen, 1, 2

Pétain, Henri-Philippe, 1

petrol, 1, 2

phantom forces, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Philby, Harry St John, 1

Phillips, Patrick, 1

Phillips, Percival, 1

photography: and aerial reconnaissance, 1;

and human behaviour, 1

Picasso, Pablo, 1, 2

Picture Post, 1, 2, 3

pillboxes, 1

Pinero, Sir Arthur, 1

pipelines: dummy, 1

Piper, John, 1

plans: BARCLAY (1943), 1;

BASTION (1942), 1;

BODYGUARD (1943 ), 1;

CASCADE (1942), 1;

FORTITUDE (1944), 1, 2;

QUICKSILVER (1944), 1;

see also operations

Plimpton, George, 1

Ploegsteert, 1, 2

Plomer, William, 1

Plumer, Gen. Sir Herbert, 1, 2

Poland: German invasion, 1, 2

Political Warfare Executive (PWE), 1, 2

Ponsonby, Arthur, 1, 2, 3, 4

Ponsonby, Sir Frederick, 1, 2

Popov, Dusko see TRICYCLE

Portal, ACM Sir Charles, 1

Porter, Maj Gen Sir Robert, 1

Portugal see Lisbon

Potter, Stephen, 1

Poulton, Edward Bagnall, 1

Pound, Adm Dudley, 1, 2

Prichard, Alfgar Hesketh, 1

Prichard, Hesketh, 1, 2, 3, 4

Prien, Kapitänleutnant Günther, 1, 2

Priestley, J. B., 1, 2, 3, 4

Princip, Gavrilo, 1

Prior, Robin, 1

prisoners of war: escape attempts, 1;

intelligence gained from, 1

The Private Life of Henry VIII (film), 1

propaganda GENERAL: dangers of boasting about, 1;

distinction between white and black, 1;

etymology, 1;

journalism as, 1;

negative connotations to British, 1;

totalitarian vs democratic, 1

ww1: 1, 2, 3, 4,

Plate 1

ww2: British attempts to woo USA using, 1;

and British home defence, 1;

documentary films, 1, 2, 3, 4;

Dunkirk as, 1;

Fifth Column as, 1;

films, 1, 2, 3;

leaflets and pamphlets, 1, 2, 3;

MoI responsibilities, 1;

Nazi, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

newspapers, 1, 2, 3;

and Normandy landings, 1;

organisations responsible for, 1;

radio broadcasts, 1, 2, 3, 4;

sibs, 1;

spin put on secret war, 1

Proud, Peter, 1, 2, 3

Pudney, John, 1

Pujol García, Juan see GARBO

Purcell, Hugh, 1

Purchase, Bentley, 1

Put Out More Flags (Waugh), 1, 2

PWE see Political Warfare Executive

Pyke, Geoffrey, 1

Pyle, Ernie, 1

Q sites, 1

QF sites, 1

Quebec conference (1943), 1

Queen Elizabeth, HMS, 1, 2

Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur, 1

Quisling, Maj Vidkun, 1

radar, 1, 2

Radcliffe, Walter, 1

radio GENERAL: invention, 1

ww1: attempts to disrupt communications, 1;

codes and ciphers, 1;

deception, 1

ww2: ‘A’ Force bogus traffic, 1;

black broadcasts direct into Germany, 1;

British secret and black stations, 1, 2, 3, 4;

British transmitters, 1, 2, 3;

and deception for Normandy landings, 1, 2, 3;

documentaries, 1;

and espionage, 1, 2, 3;

German interception of British traffic in North Africa, 1;

German secret stations, 1;

interception, 1, 2;

news coverage of Normandy landings, 1;

propaganda, 1, 2, 3, 4

Radio Luxembourg, 1

Radio Security Service (RSS), 1, 2, 3

radiographers, 1

railways: dummy, 1, 2

Ramsay, Capt Maule, 1

Ramsey, R Adm Bertram, 1

Rankin, Cap J. T., 1, 2

Ransome, Arthur, 1

Rashid Ali el-Gailani, 1, 2

Raymond, Ernest, 1

recruitment posters, Plate 1

Reid-Scott, Capt Sandy, 1

Reinberger, Maj Helmuth, 1

Reinholz, Johannes, 1

Reit, Seymour, 1

Reith, Lord (John Reith), 1, 2

Renain, Eugène, 1

Reuters news agency, 1, 2

Reynaud, Paul, 1, 2

Reynolds, Quentin, 1

Rhodes, Lt Col John P., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 1

Ribblesdale, Lord, 1

Riefenstahl, Leni, 1, 2

Ritchie, Douglas, 1

Ritter, Maj Nikolaus, 1

River Clyde, SS, 1, 2

River Plate, Battle of the (1939), 1

Robb, Brian, 1, 2

Robeck, R Adm John de, 1, 2

Robertson, Brig Horace, 1

Robertson, Lt, 1

Robertson, Maj T. A. ‘Tar’, 1, 2, 3

Robertson, Sir William, 1, 2

Robin, Harold, 1

Robinson, H. Perry, 1

Roger, Henri, 1

Rogue Male (Household), 1

Röhm, Maj Ernst, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Rommel, FM Erwin: dramatic representations, 1;

in Greece, 1;

and Normandy landings, 1;

in North Africa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

The Rooinek (Bosman), 1

Room 1 see OB40

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1

Rosenow, Kapitänleutnant Ernst, 1

Rotha, Paul, 1, 2

Rothermere, Lord (Harold Harmsworth), 1

Rothschild, Lord, 1

Rousseau, Edward, 1

Routledge, Paul, 1

Royal Air Force (RAF): inter-war, 1;

losses in France in 1940, 1;

WW1, 1;

WW2 black radio broadcasts, 1;

WW2 radar deception, 1

Royal Engineer Board: E Committee, 1

Royal Flying Corps (RFC), 1, 2

Royal Navy (RN) GENERAL: radio installation, 1

ww1: camouflage and deception, 1, 2;

fuel, 1;

intelligence, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5;

U-boat attacks, 1, 2

ww2: camouflage and deception, 1;

intelligence, 1, 2, 3;

losses in France in 1940, 1

Royal Oak, HMS, 1

RSS see Radio Security Service

Russell, Herbert, 1

Russell, Walter W., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Russia: Soviet revolution (1917), 1;

withdrawal from WW1, 1;

WW1, 1, 2, 3, 4 see also Soviet Union

Ryle, Gilbert, 1

Sackville-West, Vita, 1, 2

Sadat, Anwar El, 1

Said, Edward, 1

St Pierre Capelle, 1, 2

Saki (H. H. Munro), 1

Salisbury, Lord, 1,
2

Salt, John, 1

Samson, Cdr Charles, 1, 2

Sandwith, Humphrey, 1

Sandys, Duncan, 1

Sansom, Lt A. W., 1

Sardinia, 1

Sargent, John Singer, 1

SAS, 1, 2, 3

Sassoon, Siegfried, 1

Saunders, Hilary St George, 1, 2

Sayef, Ahmed, 1

Schellenberg, SS Maj Gen. Walter, 1

Schleicher, Kurt von, 1, 2, 3

Schmidt, Wulf Dietrich see TATE

Schwerin, Lt Col Gerhardt Count von, 1

Scott-Moncrieff, Gen Sir George, 1

sea: burning sea story, 1

Secklemann, Peter, 1

The Secret Battle (Herbert), 1

Section D, 1, 2, 3, 4

Section XV, 1, Plate 2

security: definitions, 1

Security Intelligence Middle East (SIME), 1, 2

Security Service see MI5

Seitz, Raymond, 1

Selous, Frederick Courtney, 1

Selwood, Geoff, 1

Sender der Europäischen Revolution, 1

Serge, Victor, 1

Serocold, Claude, 1

Seton-Watson, R. W., 1, 2

Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Lawrence): on Allenby, 1;

Churchill on, 1;

on Dawnay, 1, 2;

on guerrilla warfare, 1;

on Lawrence in Arabia, 1, 2, 3, 4;

on Meinertzhagen, 1, 2;

overview, 1

SF (Starfish) sites, 1

Shakespear, Captain, 1

Shaw, Bill Kennedy, 1

Shaw, George Bernard, 1, 2, 3

Shell, 1, 2

ships: camouflaged, 1, 2, 3, 4,

Plates 1;

‘crash-boats’, 1;

dummy and decoy, 1; 2, 3, 4;

Q-ships, 1

Shirer, William L., 1, 2, 3

Shoulder Arms (film), 1

Sicily, 1

SIME see Security Intelligence Middle East

Simonds, Tony, 1, 2, 3

Sinclair, Adm Sir Hugh, 1, 2, 3

Sindhi, Maulana Obaidullah, 1

Sing, Billy, 1

SIS see MI6

Slim, FM Bill, 1, 2

Smiley, David, 1

Smith, Arthur, 1

Smith, F. E., 1, 2

Smith, Walter Bedell, 1, 2

Smuts, Jan C., 1, 2, 3

Smyrna, 1

sniping: clothing, 1, 2;

counter-sniping, 1;

German WW1 targets, 1;

origins, 1;

WW1, 1, 2, 3;

WW2, 1

snow (Arthur Owens), 1

Soames, Mary, 1

SOE see Special Operations Executive

Soldatensender Calais, 1, 2, 3

Solomon, Capt Gilbert, 1

Solomon, Joseph Hubert, 1

Solomon, Simeon, 1

Solomon, Solomon J.: background and character, 1;

Bernard on, 1;

and British camouflage, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;

death, 1;

and German camouflage, 1, 2;

on WW1’s outbreak, 1

Somaliland, 1, 2

Somme, Battle of the (1916), 1, 2

South African War (1899 ), 1, 2, 3, 4

Southron, Maj R. J., 1

Soviet Union: British inter-war spying on, 1;

Churchill’s attitude to, 1;

German invasion, 1, 2, 3;

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