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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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by Giles Milton


  14. Cookridge, Sky, p.7.

  15. Binney, Secret, p.204.

  16. Hawes and White, Resistance, p.44.

  17. NA: HS 9/1240/3.

  18. Hawes and White, Resistance, p.44.

  19. Buckmaster, Alone, p.157.

  20. NA: HS 9/1240/3.

  21. Buckmaster, Alone, pp.157–8.

  22. Ibid., p.158.

  23. NA: HS 9/1240/3.

  24. Buckmaster, Alone, p.158.

  25. NA: HS 9/1204/3.

  26. Bailey, Forgotten, p.189.

  27. NA: HS 9/1204/3.

  28. Bailey, Forgotten, pp.189–90.

  29. NA: HS 9/1240/3.

  30. NA: HS 8/370.

  Chapter 18: Fighting with Hedgehogs

    1. Pawle, Secret, p.130.

    2. Macrae, Toyshop, p.137.

    3. Pawle, Secret, p.131.

    4. David Owen, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Seaforth Publishing, 2007, p.145.

    5. Pawle, Secret, p.138.

    6. John A. Williamson, Antisubmarine Warrior in the Pacific, University of Alabama Press, 2005, pp.145, 110.

    7. Ibid., p.82.

    8. The account of this attack is drawn from ibid., chapter 9. See also http://www.ussengland.org for diaries, logbooks and interviews with survivors.

    9. S.E. Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, vol. 8, New Guinea and the Marianas, Little, Brown, 1948, p.231.

  10. Williamson, Antisubmarine, p.145.

  11. Macrae, Toyshop, p.194.

  Chapter 19: Operation Gubbins

    1. Charles Hambro, Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2009.

    2. Wilkinson, Foreign Fields, p.213.

    3. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, p.192.

    4. Ibid.

    5. Ibid., pp.168–9, 189.

    6. Ibid., pp.176, 193, 173.

    7. Tommy Macpherson with Richard Bath, Behind Enemy Lines, Mainstream Publishing, 2010, p.117.

    8. Macpherson Carlton TV interview, IWM: 23256.

    9. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, pp.175, 155.

  10. Macpherson, Enemy, p.119.

  11. IWM: Documents 12674.

  12. Denis Rigden (ed.), SOE Syllabus, PRO, 2001, p.367.

  13. O.A. Brown, IWM: Documents 12674.

  14. Harry Verlander, My War in SOE, Independent Books, 2010, p.55.

  15. Macpherson, Enemy, p.123. Bourbon’s story is also told in Robert Hall, ‘Allied “Bandits” Behind Enemy Lines’, 5 June 2006: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8085383.stm

  16. IWM: Documents 12674.

  17. Macpherson, Enemy, p.125.

  18. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8085383.stm

  19. IWM: Documents 12618.

  20. Macpherson, Enemy, pp.130–31.

  21. IWM: Documents 12674.

  22. Macpherson, Enemy, pp.132–3.

  23. Miller, Behind, p.152.

  24. Macpherson Carlton TV interview, IWM: 23256.

  25. Macpherson, Enemy, p.139.

  26. Miller, Behind, p.153.

  27. Macpherson, Enemy, p.139.

  28. Miller, Behind, p.153.

  29. Lammerding report to General Commander, 58th Panzer Corps, in Hastings, Das Reich, p.145.

  30. Macpherson Carlton TV interview, IWM: 23256.

  31. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, pp.193–4.

  32. IWM: Documents 12618, SHAEF report into Special Operations Executive’s work, June 1944. Eisenhower’s report, Special Operations Executive’s work, June 1944; Lord Mountbatten, personal letter to Colin Gubbins; Hugh Dalton, personal letter to Colin Gubbins; King George VI, letter to Colin Gubbins; note by Colin Gubbins; Edward Grigg, Minister Resident in the Middle East, personal letter.

  Epilogue

    1. Macrae, Toyshop, p.210.

    2. CC: Macrae diary, MCRA 4.

    3. Macrae, Toyshop, p.211.

    4. Ibid., p.212.

    5. Ibid.

    6. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, p.224.

    7. Brandon and Elliot-Bateman, Fourth Dimension, p.45.

    8. Wilkinson, Foreign Fields, p.213.

    9. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, p.217.

  10. Lord Selborne, personal letter, in ibid., pp.232–3.

  11. Wilkinson, Foreign Fields, p.213.

  12. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, p.235.

  13. Eric Sykes’s SOE file, NA: HS 9/1434.

  14. William Donovan’s assessment in Fairbairn’s SOE file, NA: HS 9/495/7.

  15. CP: Jefferis to Lord Lindemann, 1945, K165/3.

  16. Interview with John Jefferis, 5 December 2014.

  17. The Times, 7 September 1963.

  18. George Rheam’s ‘Report on Sabotage’, NA: HS 8/3705.

  19. Bedford Museum unpublished interview with John Vandepeer Clarke, 23 April 2004.

  20. Interview with Mrs Ann Clarke, 17 December 2014.

  21. Obituary of Joan Bright Astley, Independent, 28 January 2009.

  22. Astley and Wilkinson, Gubbins, p.213.

  23. Ibid., p.243.

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  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  Abraham, Edward

  Abrahams, Sir Arthur

  Aero-Switch (explosive device)

  Afrika Korps

  A-Go, Operation (Japanese)

  Alamein, El

  Albania

  Alleyn, Clodagh

  Angier, Norman

  Appleyard, Geoffrey

  Arisaig, Scotland

  Armchair Science (magazine)

  Armstrong, Joan

  Asopos viaduct, Greece

  Astley, Colonel Philip

  Aston House, Hertfordshire

  atomic bomb

  Attlee, Clement: and German invasion of Norway

  Auxiliary Units (anti-invasion guerrillas)

  Aviemore training school

  Baker, Arthur (‘Pop’)

  Baker Street: SOE established in; Gubbins works at; staff expansion; Gubbins appointed to head; closed down at war’s end

 
; Balkans: sabotage in; Donovan’s interest in

  Barnes, Tom

  Barry, Major Hugh

  Basalt, Operation

  Beattie, Captain Stephen, VC

  Beaumont-Nesbitt, Brigadier Frederick

  Beddington-Behrens, Edward

  Beehive (sabotage weapons)

  Belgium: Germans invade

  Belgrade

  Beneš, Eduard

  Bernhardt, Roger

  Bevin, Ernest

  Beyts, Colonel Bill

  Bidgood, Sergeant

  Bingham, Phyllis

  biological warfare

  Blacker, Stewart

  Blacker Bombard

  Bletchley Park: receives Enigma machine; secrecy

  Bodø, Norway

  Bohemia and Moravia see Czechoslovakia

  Boon and Porter (engineering firm)

  Boosey and Hawkes (musical instrument-makers)

  Borah, Senator William

  Bordeaux: harbour attacked

  Bourbon, Michel (Prince Michel de Bourbon-Parma)

  Bourdillon, Sir Bernard

  Bower, Robert

  Brickendonbury Manor: wartime use; returned to civilian use

  Bridle, Mr (of the Firs)

  Bright, Joan (later Bright Astley): recruited; on Gubbins; lives abroad; on Jefferis; and recruitment of guerrillas; and Gubbins’s mission to Poland; moves to War Office at outbreak of war; relations with Macrae; and campaign in Norway; learns of invasion of Low Countries; assists in relocating MI(R)c to Portland Place; on Frank Nelson; leaves Gubbins’s service; attends Gubbins’s party; as secretary to Ismay; on Dodds-Parker; on Gorgopotamos operation; and Gubbins’s dislike of criticism from senior officers; on Portal; welcomes Gubbins’s appointment as head of Baker Street; and death of Gubbins’s son; on Air Ministry obstructiveness; on Gubbins’s Jedburgh teams; on Jedburgh teams in Far East; achievements; marriage and death; at Special Forces Club

 

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