on Hess visit, 185
on Hitler, 53–54
“Holiday time” broadcast (August 8, 1939), 84–85
on Holocaust, 305
on invasion of Czechoslovakia, 71, 73–74
on invasion of France, 121
“Iron Curtain” speech, 319
and Menzies, 97, 98
on Nazis, 110–111, 202
on oil, 26–27
and Polish resistance, 102, 103–104, 228
prime minister, becoming 117
River War, The 26
and Roosevelt, 103, 119–120, 143–144
on sabotage, 125
sinking of French fleet, 170
and SOE, xiv, xv, 100–101, 118
surrender of Tobruk, 223–224
on wars, 10, 32–33
working at secret locations, 143
and Yeo-Thomas, 239–240
on Zionism, 29
Ciezki, Maksymilian, 76, 83, 95, 102, 113, 316
Cipher Machines of Steglitzerstrasse 2, 37
Clemenceau, Georges, 12
clockwork mice, 249
closework, xv, 27, 52, 193, 268, 276, 318
clothing imitations, 184
Coburg, Duke of, 38
Colas, Rolande
aborted mission, 256–259
meeting with Vera in Paris, 114
missions in France, 142, 255–256, 280
prison train to Buchenwald, 287–288, 288–289
training, 136–137
Colby, William Egan, xvii, 254, 267–268
Cole, Harold, 265
Colossus (Bletchley computer), 84
Colville, John, 119
Colvin, Ian, 81
Combined Operations, 102, 193, 224
Committee of Imperial Defence. See Industrial Intelligence Centre
concentration camps, 19, 74, 78, 172, 307–308
Connor, William (“Cassandra”), 206
Constana (Romania), 90, 91, 203
Coon, Carleton, 230
Cormeau, Yvonne, 196–197
Cornioley, Henri, 278, 314
Cotton, Sidney, 50, 88
Courtaulds, 184, 209
Coward, Noel, 115
Cowburn, Ben, 226
Cox, Geoffrey, 55
Cripps, Stafford, 264–265
Cromwell, Oliver, 117
crossword puzzles, 150, 209
Cry Havoc! (Nichols), 31
Cuneo, Ernest L., 319
Curteis, Hugh, 93
cyanide pills, xv, 150, 299, 302
cyclometers, 78–79, 82
Cyrankiewicz, Jozef, 227
Czechoslovakia
invasion of, 70–71
resistance, 104, 231
underground army in France, 101, 103
Dachau, 72, 92, 303, 304
Daily Express, 18, 53–54, 54, 57
Daily Mail, 54, 57, 121, 205–206
Daily Mirror, 118, 141
Daily Sketch, 78
Daily Worker, xi
Dalton, Hugh, xiv
on Fourth Arm, 76
and Halifax, 126–127
Labour Party, 32, 117
Left Wing teams, 80–81
and SIS, 80, 98, 105, 106
and SOE, 118, 122–123, 134, 193–194
on soldiers and covert actions, 142
Statistical Department, 104
and Vera, 66–67, 68
Damerment, Madeleine, 303–304
Danilewicz, Ludomir, 83
Dannecker, Theodor, 202
Dansey, Claude Marjoribanks, 97, 106, 160, 208, 215, 221, 260, 262, 300
Darnand, Joseph, 272
Das Reich Panzer Division, 277–278
Davies, Tommy, 93, 128
Dayan, Moshe, 182, 306
D-day, 164, 253, 261, 273–274, 277–279
death camps, 201, 206, 209, 227, 231, 301
de Crinis, Max, 107
Deleporte, Jacques, xiv, 273
Delestraint, Charles, 287
Delmer, Sefton, 54, 265
Denmark, 157, 244
Denniston, Alastair (AGD), 76, 81, 83
Dericourt, Henri, 272–273, 297, 300–301, 338n3 (chap. 38)
Deuxième Bureau, 55, 113
Dew, A. J., 309
Dewavrin, André (Colonel Passy), 213–218, 219–221, 225–226, 254
Doblin, Vincent (Wolfgang Döblin), 114, 127
Dodds-Parker, Douglas, 129–130
Dodkin, Kenneth, 241
Donovan, William J.
and Churchill, 143
inspections of SOE, xv, xvii, 124–125, 128, 129–135, 136–137, 139–143, 166–167, 171–172
on Jewish escapees, 210
and OSS, 190–191, 218, 226, 231
and Stephenson, 135, 158, 285–286
Vera, first meeting with, 31–32
Donovan Award, 318
doodlebugs, 281
Double Webs (Fuller), ix
Doubleday, Nelson, 131
“Dover Beach” (Arnold), 183
Dowding, Hugh, 125
Dracula (Stoker), 150
Duclos, Maurice, 216
Dulles, Allen, 232, 233, 234, 260, 278–279
Dunderdale, Wilfred, 56
Dunne, Charlie, 235
Dupuis, Jose, 219, 225
Dutch intelligence, 106, 107
Earl Baldwin Fund, 74
Earle, George H., 233
Eden, Anthony, 182, 227, 306
Edward VIII, 38–39, 56. See also Windsor, Duke of
Egypt, SOE/Cairo, 222–224, 311
Eichmann, Adolf, 78, 91, 99, 182, 201, 202, 203, 206, 316
Eisenhower, Dwight, 139, 253, 268, 274, 295, 297
Elliott, Geoffrey, 307
Elliott, Kavan, 162, 260
Ellis, Charles, 62, 63
Elser, Georg, 108 The End of Glory (Charmley), 74
Enigma code breakers. See Polish code breakers; ULTRA
Enigma coding machine, xvii, 18, 51, 63, 77–79, 82–84, 95, 113, 132–133, 194, 265, 294
escape-and-evasion services, 189, 253
escape lines in France, 245–254
Esmonde, Eugene, 207
Etkins, Heinrich. See Atkins, Henry
Etzdorf, Hasso von, 210, 313–314
Etzdorf, Rüdiger von, 210–211, 216
Eureka position-indicators, 249–250
euthanasia, 204
Evening Star, 121
FANYs, 254, 302
FBI, 154, 267
Final Solution (Holocaust), 182, 201–202, 206, 209, 226–227, 305–308. See also concentration camps; death camps
Fisher, John Arbuthnot, 99, 101
Fisher, Nigel, 99, 100
Fleming, Ian
James Bond, xii, 135, 155, 274, 317, 321
in Norway, 115
Operation Ruthless, 133, 149, 159
recruitment of, 66
on sexual intrigue in Bucharest, 4
on Stringbag, 127
on U.S. secret services, 157
Fleming, Peter, 115, 137–138, 183
Flying Visit, The (Peter Fleming), 183
FOCUS, 32
Foley, Frank, 37
Force 136, 221
Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (FFI), 186, 190, 193, 276, 299
Foreign Office, 67, 190, 193, 296
Forrestal, James, 308
Fourth Arm, 76
France
collaboration, 300
escape lines, 245–254
invasion of, 121–123
Jews in, 150, 151, 157, 202, 211, 213, 262
liberation, 293–295
occupation, 153, 187–189
Polish and Czech underground in, 101, 103, 110
prewar intelligence and defense, 55–56, 66–67, 79, 88, 101–102, 113–116
sinking of fleet at Mers el-Kébir, 179
Vera in Paris, 55–56, 101–102, 103, 112, 113–116
Vichy, 153–154, 157, 179, 194, 202, 211, 213, 239, 272, 306, 316
François-Poncet, A
ndré, 83–84
Fraser, Berthe, 237, 238
Fraser-Smith, Charles, 159, 160, 184
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 2005), 307, 323n3
Free French, 165–166, 175, 176, 178, 186, 193, 194, 208, 214–217, 237, 241. See also Gaulle, Charles de
Freier, Bill, 157
Freisler, Roland, 313
French Communist Party, 186
French resistance operations with SOE, viii–x, 175–182, 186–191
Colas, Rolande, 255–256
common people, importance of, 153
D-day, 273–274, 277–279
Dewavrin, André (Colonel Passy), 213–218, 219–221
escapees as source of information, 165–166
factory sabotage, 156–157
missing agents, 297–304
Moulin, Jean, 176–177, 181, 191, 192–193, 194–195, 225
numbers of, 262–263
Raynaud, Pierre, 196, 197
reprisals, 278–279, 280–281, 290–291, 291–292
Yeo-Thomas (see Yeo-Thomas, F. F. E.) French Revolution, 190
Fresnes Prison, 273, 287, 299, 315
Fry, Varian, 157, 166, 182, 211, 218
F Section, 190, 196, 212, 213
Fund for German Jewry. See Central Fund for German Jewry
FUSAG (First U.S. Army Group), 261–262, 274
gadgets, 126, 159–160, 250
Galitzine, Yurka, 310
Gano, Stanislaw, 101, 103
Gaulle, Charles de
after liberation, 293, 294
in London, 153, 175, 178, 179, 195, 215, 216–217, 254, 276
Gehlen, Reinhard, 231, 232, 316
Gellhorn, Martha, 59–60
George V, 16, 29, 34, 38, 39, 53, 99
George VI, 73–74, 118, 121, 124, 171
George Cross, 1, 164
German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, 85–85
German spies, 168
Germany
air force strength, 66
anti-Nazi/anti-Hitler factions in, 7, 12–13, 17, 35–37, 39, 210–211, 229, 233–234, 283
anti-Semitism in, 36
Berlin, 35–37
euthanasia in, 204
factories as weak spots, 42
invasion of Austria, 49
invasion of Czechoslovakia, 70–71
invasion of France, 121–123
invasion of Poland, 51–52, 63, 88–89, 93–94, 95
invasion of Russia, 185–186
Jewish soldiers, 71
rearmament, 12, 23–24
Soviet peace pact, 12
See also Gestapo; Hitler, Adolf; Nazi Party
Gerson, Victor, 181
Gestapo, 16, 52, 92, 98, 99, 105–109, 150, 153, 155, 163, 164, 181, 187–188, 190, 191, 195, 196, 209, 218, 228, 237, 242, 243, 255–256, 265, 287, 288, 292, 294, 299, 302, 303, 315, 320
Gide, André, 189
Gielgud, Major, 162
Gineste, Marie-Rose, 262
Girard, André, 267
Gizycki, Jerzy, 161–162, 163
Gladstone, William, 179
Glorious, HMS, 127
Godfrey, John, 66, 97, 109, 131, 157
Godley, John (Lord Kilbracken), 166–167, 207, 244–245
Goebbels, Joseph, 36–37, 61, 96, 102, 106, 108, 109, 230, 272
Goerdeler, Carl, 62–63
Goetz, Josef, 272, 274, 275, 300
Goga, Octavian, 6
Göring, Hermann, xv, 17, 39, 71, 88, 139, 171–172
Government Code and Cipher School (Bletchley Park), 44, 84, 113, 128, 132, 159–160, 234, 237-238, 263, 265, 297
Grand, Laurence Douglas, 65, 138
Granville, Christina. See Skarbek, Krystyna
Great Britain
anti-Hitler/anti-Nazi factions, xv, 30–31, 32 (see also Our Mutual Friends)
anti-Semitism, 19–20, 25–26, 30–31, 45–46, 53, 57, 59, 206–207
bombing of London, xi, xiii, 140, 145, 152, 171, 281
German spies in, 168
homeland defense, 48–49, 53, 127–128, 138–139, 140–141
indifference to Nazi threat, 16–17, 18–19, 52, 59–60
Jewish refugees, 2, 166
pro-Hitler and appeasement factions
among elite, xvi, 50, 64–65, 86, 97
Chamberlain, 69, 71–73
Churchill's conversion of, 118–119, 146
Duke of Windsor, 56–57, 56–58, 62, 85, 88, 130
Guilty Men, 15
Halifax, 65, 66
Hess visit, 183–185
Lloyd George, 96, 105
Londonderry, 18, 49
Greene, Graham, 31, 318
Greenwald, Chanan, 308
Grew, Joseph, 149
Gubbins, Colin, xvi
in Afghanistan, 42, 65
at Baker Street, 148
and Donovan, 133, 137
early career, 43–44, 46
family of, 42–43
Force 136, 221
in France, 110, 112–114
and homeland defense, 48–49, 53, 127–128, 138, 140–141
in Military Intelligence, 42, 44, 63
in Norway, 117–118, 120–121
on OSS, 285
and Poland, 51, 77, 81, 87–88, 89–96, 276, 296
in Scotland, 198
and SOE, 222, 286, 310
and Vera, 45, 47–48
writings, 44–45
Guilty Men, xvi, 15
Haag, Inga, 237, 313
Haganah, 69, 182, 203
Halder, Franz, 106, 210
Halifax, Edward, 1st Earl of, 65, 66, 76, 79, 101, 104, 109, 126–127, 128, 178, 231
Hall, Virginia, 125, 152–155, 165, 180–182, 226, 248, 273
Hall, William Reginald, 81
Hamilton, Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of, 183–184
Hanfstaengl, Ernst, 230, 231
Hankey, Maurice, 23, 97, 109
Harris, Arthur, 232
Harrison, Elizabeth Lucas, 315
Harrisson, Tom, 147
Heinrich, Otto, 284
Heller, Sergeant, 309
Hertz, J. N., 294
Hess, Rudolf, 38, 183–185, 192–193
Hesse, Fritz, 39
Heydrich, Reinhard, 36, 198, 231–232
“The Highwayman” (Noyes), 144
Himmler, Heinrich, 36, 188, 201–202, 305, 308
Hinsley, F. Harry, 127, 170–171, 261, 336n3 (chap. 33)
Hippocrates, 22
Hitler, Adolf
anti-Semitism, 5–6, 13–14, 69
assassination attempts, 23, 24, 34, 35, 61, 70, 71–72, 98, 105–109, 229–230, 235–236, 282–283
and Carol II, 40
charm of, 41
and Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor, 39, 56–57, 62, 85, 88, 130
exploiting fear of communism, 97–98
invasion of Austria, 49
invasion of Britain, 122–123
invasion of Czechoslovakia, 71–73
on lebensraum, 65–66
and Molotov, 147–148
New Order, 50
rise to power, 14, 18
and Romania, 148
timetable for Western Europe, 116
Vera's investigation of habits of, 230
war with Russia, 149
Hoare, Sir Samuel, 118, 211
Hoesch, Leopold von, 38, 39, 40
Hoess, Rudolf, 310
Holmes, Sherlock, 42
Holocaust. See Final Solution
Home Forces, 138
Hoover, J. Edgar, 154
Hope, Lord John, 315
Hore-Belisha, Leslie, 64, 65
Horsley, Terence, 67
Horstmann, Friedrich, 35, 36, 37
Horstmann, Lali, 35
Howe, Ted, 333n4 (chap. 28)
Hughes, Richard, 274
Hull, Cordell, 69, 285
identity cards, 157, 167–168
IICCID. See Industrial Intelligence Centre
Imperial Censorship, 156
Inayat Khan, Noor, 187, 196, 197, 269–270, 273, 275, 297–298, 299, 300, 302–304
indecipherables, 208–209, 238, 280
Industrial Intelligence Centre of the Committee of Imperial Defence (IICCID), xv, 21, 87
Inter-Services Liaison Department (ISLD), 235
Inter-Services Research Bureau, 158
Intrepid, USS, 318
Irgun, 27, 46, 69–70, 306
Iron Guard, 5, 6, 15, 163
ISLD (Inter-Services Liaison Department), 235
I Walked Alone (Cardigan), 52–53
Jabotinsky, Ze'ev, 17, 46
Jacob, Ian, 103
Japan, 42, 108, 133, 148, 149, 152, 302
Jedburgh teams, 253–254, 276
Jensen, Monika, 325n4 (chap. 4)
jets, 18, 167
Jewish Agency, 227, 306
Jewish Brigade, 48–49, 53, 207, 294, 296, 305–308, 310–311
Jews
Final Solution (Holocaust), 182, 201–202, 206, 209, 226–227, 305–308
in France, 150, 151, 157, 202, 211, 213, 262
in Germany, 316
in Great Britain, 2, 166
Palestine Express, 181–182
in Poland, 63, 69–70, 70, 78, 92, 94, 206, 226–227
in Romania, 69–70, 224
and SOE, 142, 167, 207–208, 224
John, Otto, 283
Johnson, Paul, 51, 326n1 (chap. 6)
Johnson, Philip, 59, 91, 328n3 (chap. 11)
Justice, James Robertson, 61–62
Kahan, Maxim, 308
Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 301
Karski, Jan, 227
Kell, Vernon, 6–7, 80
Kennedy, John F., 320
Kennedy, Joseph P., 69–70, 114, 120
Kent, Tyler Gatewood, 119, 120
Kick, Josef, 284
Kieffer, Hans, 269
Kilbracken, John Godley, 3rd Baron, 166–167, 207, 244–245
King, Andrew, 260
King, Henry, 166
King Henry V (Shakespeare), 296
King's Scouts, xii, 149
Kipling, Rudyard, 6, 12, 44, 80, 197, 212
Kleist-Schmenzin, Ewald von, 71
Klop, Dirk, 107, 108
Klueger, Ruth, 74
Knight, Peggy, 267–268
Koestler, Arthur, 166, 167–168
Kosciuszko, Tadeusz, 202
Kowerski, Andrzej, 113, 162
Lang, Cosmo Gordon, 29
Langer, Gwido, 83, 95, 102, 113
Langmere, Franz, 284
Laqueur, Walter, 316
Lattre de Tassigny, Jean-Marie de, 292
Laval, Pierre, 194, 211, 213
Law, Richard, 207
Lawrence, D. H., 14
Lawrence, T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia), 27, 64
Leahy, William D., 179
Lee, Pete, xvii
Leeper, Rex, 67
Lefort, Cecily, 187
Left Wing teams, 87
Legion of Honor, xvii, 1, 315–316
Leigh, Vera, 300–301, 301–302
Lemoine, Rodolphe, 79, 101–102, 121, 233, 260–261, 313
Lenka, Mrdjn, 223
Lescanne, Jérôme, 277
Letteney, Nadya, 60, 119–120
Lettow-Vorbeck, Paul von, 10
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