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
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’
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
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Nathaniel’s Nutmeg
Big Chief Elizabeth
Samurai William
White Gold
Paradise Lo
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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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