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Churchill's Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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by Giles Milton


  Norwegian Independent Company Number One

  Norwood, Gordon

  Novotny, Josef

  Nuneaton (tug)

  Nut Club

  Office of Strategic Services (US)

  Olsen, Captain Leif

  Oradour, France

  Overlord, Operation

  Owada, Admiral Noboru

  Pappenheimer, Alvin

  Paris: Gubbins in; Churchill visits

  Passat (tanker)

  Passmore, Brian

  Pawson, David

  Pearson, Sir Edward

  Pearson, Susannah, Lady

  Perkins, ‘Buzz’

  Perkins, Colonel H.B. (‘Perks’)

  Pessac, near Bordeaux: transformers sabotaged

  Petrek, Vladimir

  Peugeot, Jean-Pierre

  Peugeot, Robert

  Peugeot, Rodolphe

  Peugeot car factory, Sochaux

  Philby, H.A.R. (‘Kim’)

  PIAT (Projector Infantry Anti-Tank)

  Pike, Signalman

  Pilkington, William

  Piquet-Wicks, Eric

  Plan Z (German)

  Pleydell-Bouverie, Barty

  Pleydell-Bouverie, Molly

  Poland: Germans invade; Gubbins visits with party; Enigma machine removed from; guerrilla and resistance activities; agents parachuted into

  Pollock, George

  Poole, Dorset

  Popular Science Monthly

  Porsche, Ferdinand

  Portal, Charles, 1st Viscount

  Porter, Bob

  Portland Place, London

  Porton Laboratories

  Postmaster, Operation

  Poulsson, Jens

  Prendergast, Captain

  Pritchard, Captain Bill

  Prometheus (Greek agent)

  Prometheus II (Greek agent)

  Puech, Monsieur

  Puffball (anti-tank bomb)

  Purdon, Lieutenant Corran

  Queensberry, John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of

  Quinine (guerrilla unit)

  Raeder, Admiral Erich

  Ree, Harry: background; parachutes into France; watches bombing of Sochaux; plans sabotage of Peugeot factory; attacks new targets; fight with German SD officer; escapes to Switzerland; forms resistance circuit in France

  Reich, Das (German division) see SS Panzer Division, 2nd

  Rheam, George: heads Brickendonbury Manor team; and attack on Norsk Hydro; teaches Ree; praises Ree; sabotage programme; praised; achievements

  Rhine, river: W-bomb dropped in

  Ribbentrop, Joachim von

  Richmond Park

  Ringway, Manchester: parachute training school

  Ritchie, Air-Vice Marshal Alan

  Rjukan, Norway see Norsk Hydro plant

  Robertson, Jack

  Rolo, Charles

  Rommel, Field Marshal Erwin

  Rønneberg, Joachim: leads attack on Norsk Hydro; returns to England after raid

  Roosevelt, Franklin D.

  Rose, Mr (civil servant)

  Roumeli Mountains, Greece

  Royal Marine, Operation

  Rundstedt, Field Marshal Gerd von

  Russell, Bertrand

  Ryder, Sue

  St Nazaire, France: raid on harbour

  Sainte-Suzanne, France

  Salonika

  Sanchez-Diez, Captain Victor

  Savanna, Operation

  Schledstadt (tanker)

  Scissorforce

  Scotland: land requisitioned for training area; see also Arisaig

  Second World War: outbreak; early inertia (‘phoney war’)

  Secret Intelligence Service: and Section D; undervalues guerrilla warfare

  Selborne, Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of

  Shetland Bus

  Shinwell, Emanuel

  Shrapnel, Captain Henry

  Sicily: Allies invade (1943)

  Siegfried Line

  Simovic, General Dušan

  Simpson, Bill

  Sinn Fein

  Six, Dr Franz

  Skinnarland, Einar

  Smuts, General Jan Christian

  SO2 (department)

  Sochaux, France

  SOE see Special Operations Executive

  Sørensen, Erling

  Soviet Union: non-aggression pact with Germany (1939); Hitler invades

  Spain: and seizing of Duchessa d’Aosta

  Spears, Major-General Sir Edward

  Specht, Captain Herbert (of Likomba)

  Special Forces Club

  Special Operations Executive (SOE; ‘Inter-Services Research Bureau’; ‘Baker Street’): formed; women in

  Special Training School 123 see Camp X

  SS Panzer Division, 2nd (Das Reich)

  Straaten, André van der

  Station IX (Welwyn)

  Station XV (Thatched Barn, Hertfordshire)

  Sticky Bomb

  Stirling, David

  Stockbroker (French resistance group)

  Storhaug, Hans

  Stranks, Mabel

  Strømsheim, Birger

  Stuckler, Obersturmbannführer Albert

  Sudetenland

  Suner, Serrano

  Supply, Ministry of

  Sweet-Escott, Bickham

  Sykes, Eric: background; trains recruits at Arisaig; transferred to Milton Hall; Gubbins praises; death

  Takeuchi, Yoshitaka

  Taylor, George

  Taylor, ‘Haggis’

  Tempsford airfield, Bedfordshire

  Thomassen (Clerkenwell engineer)

  Tibbits, Elmslie

  Tibbits, Nigel

  Time Pencil (fuse)

  Timoshenko, Marshal Semyon

  Tirpitz (German battleship)

  Torch, Operation (1942)

  Toyoda, Admiral Soemu

  Tronstad, Leif

  Truman, Harry S.

  Tuck, James

  Turch, Gilda

  U-552

  U-boats: counter-measures; targeted by Maid Honour

  Ungentlemanly Warfare, Ministry of

  United States of America: relations with Britain over weaponry and special operations; enters war; navy employs Hedgehog in Pacific; and scale of special operations

  V1 flying bomb

  Valcik, Josef

  Valle, Captain Umberto

  Varnier, Sub-Lieutenant André

  Velouchiotis, Aris

  Villa, Pancho

  Violet, HMS

  Vivien, HMS

  VJ Day

  Vulcan (tug)

  W-bomb

  Wanderer, HMS

  warfare: gentlemanly and ungentlemanly

  Wauchope, Lesley

  Wellstead, Chief Petty Officer

  West Africa: March-Phillips’s expedition to

  Whinney, Commander Reginald

  Wilkinson, Peter: recruited; visit to Poland; restlessness; lacks guerrilla expertise; supports Gubbins in anti-invasion plans; on composition of Auxiliary Units; joins Gubbins at Baker Street; trains Heydrich assassins; welcomes Gubbins’s promotion to head of Baker Street; and death of Gubbins’s son; and successes in France; on winding down of Baker Street; co-authors book on Gubbins with Joan Bright; eulogy of Gubbins

  Williamson, John

  Willis, Vice-Admiral Algernon

  Wilmot, Len

  Wilson, John Skinner

  Wilson, Mr (engineer at the Firs)

  Wond, Miss (the Firs supervisor)

  Woodhouse, Christopher Montague (‘Monty’)

  Woods, Hugo

  Woolf, Virginia

  Wyndham, Brigadier

  Young, Colonel (of Brickendonbury)

  Zervas, Napoleon

  Zorilla, Abelino

  Also by Giles Milton

  NONFICTION

  The Riddle and the Knight

  Nathaniel’s Nutmeg

  Big Chief Elizabeth

  Samurai William

  White Gold

  Paradise Lo
st

  Wolfram

  Russian Roulette

  When Hitler Took Cocaine and Lenin Lost His Brain

  When Churchill Slaughtered Sheep and Stalin Robbed a Bank

  FICTION

  Edward Trencom’s Nose

  According to Arnold

  The Perfect Corpse

  About the Author

  GILES MILTON is a writer and journalist. He has contributed articles to most of the British national newspapers as well as many foreign publications, and specializes in narrative history. In the course of his researches, he has traveled extensively in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. He has written several books of nonfiction, including the bestselling Nathaniel’s Nutmeg, and has been translated into twenty languages worldwide. He is the author of the novel Edward Trencom’s Nose. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Dedication

  Epigraph

  Prologue

    1. The Third Man

    2. Thinking Dirty

    3. Making Bangs for Churchill

    4. Sweet Fanny Adams

    5. The Wild Guerrillas of Kent

    6. The Enemy Within

    7. The First Big Bang

    8. Killing School

    9. Gubbins’s Pirates

  10. A Deadly Bang

  11. Masters of Sabotage

  12. Czech-Mate

  13. Sabotage in the Mountains

  14. Man of Steel

  15. In the Bleak Midwinter

  16. Enter Uncle Sam

  17. Gubbins’s Trojan War

  18. Fighting with Hedgehogs

  19. Operation Gubbins

  Epilogue

  Acknowledgements

  Illustration Credits

  Notes and Sources

  Bibliography

  Index

  Also by Giles Milton

  About the Author

  Copyright

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  Originally published in Great Britain as The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by John Murray (Publishers), an Hachette UK Company

  First U.S. Edition: February 2017

  eISBN 9781250119049

 

 

 


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