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
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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