They Fought Alone: The True Story of the Starr Brothers, British Secret Agents in Nazi-Occupied France
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Three Musketeers, The (Dumas), 38
Tiny (Jedburgh officer), 219–20
torture, 79, 95, 103, 104, 116, 117, 119, 127–30, 157, 183, 184, 207–10, 233, 237
allegations against George Starr, 213, 233–45
of John Starr, 90, 91, 105
of miliciens, 202–3
Toulouse, 30, 36, 46–49, 52, 57–61, 63–65, 68, 72, 76, 100, 111, 113, 115, 146, 155, 167, 200, 205, 214–16, 218, 219, 229
liberation of, 219–20, 226–29, 244
Saint-Michel Prison in, 115, 130, 205, 218, 219
Tulle, 178, 179, 180
Tunisia, 44, 52, 55
Ukraine, 152
United Press, 214, 220
United States:
Army Air Forces (AAF), 167, 201
entry into war, 37, 199
Office of Strategic Services (OSS), 199, 213
War of Independence, 216
V-1 rockets, 190–91
Vaculik, Serge, 209, 222–23, 257, 258
VENTRILOQUIST circuit, 10, 78, 145
Victoire network, 36–38, 43, 131, 268
Villa Augusta, 26
Villa Isabelle, 23–24, 26, 28
Villefranche-de-Lauragais, 220
Vogt, Ernest, 105–10, 118–20, 122, 123, 125–26, 135–36, 141, 149, 157, 161–63, 190, 210, 249–50, 260–61, 263–64
Vomécourt, Philippe de, 10, 145–47
Vuillemot, Robert, 64
Wallerand, Pierre, 36–37, 41, 43
Rouneau and, 36
Walters, Anne-Marie (“Colette”), 134–35, 142–47, 155–57, 159, 165–66, 174, 180, 181, 184, 185–87, 199, 228
Algerian trip of, 212–13
Arnault and, 134–35, 142, 144–46, 155, 156, 185
Buresie and, 211
Castelnau battle and, 191–94
George Starr and, 142–47, 153, 165–66, 181, 185, 186, 201, 211–13, 236, 237
George Starr accused of torture by, 213, 237, 238, 241, 245
Jedburgh team and, 200
Normandy landing and, 174, 179
on treatment of prisoners, 202–3
Walters, Dennis, 253
war crimes, 203, 221, 237, 256
Watremez, Serge, 9
Wehrmacht, 18, 19, 30, 80, 91, 128, 134, 152, 172, 178, 187, 197–98, 204, 205, 210, 216, 221
George Starr’s orders to attack, 201–2
WHEELWRIGHT circuit, 38, 44, 45, 56, 57, 62, 66, 78, 80, 86, 93, 113, 115, 129, 152, 159, 165, 168, 234, 237
D-Day and, 44, 84–86, 88, 133, 153, 154, 166–68, 169–75, 197, 200
see also Starr, George Reginald
Wieviorka, Olivier, 4
Woolrych, Stanley H. C., 233–40, 245
World War I, 38, 56, 81, 86, 155, 183
World War II, 56
end of, 254
German surrender in, 248
Japan surrender in, 254
U.S. entry into, 37, 199
Young, John (“Gabriel”), 69–70, 87–90, 152, 160
arrest of, 127
Yugoslavia, 159
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Glass was the Chief Middle East Correspondent for ABC News from 1983 to 1993 and has covered wars in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. His writings appear in Harper's Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books, The Independent, and The Spectator. He is the author of Tribes with Flags, The Tribes Triumphant, Money for Old Rope, The Northern Front, Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation, and The Deserters: A Hidden History of World War II.
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