by Clare Mulley
———, ‘Christine the Brave: Postscript’ (4.10.1952)
H. M. Edinburgh, letter, ‘The Strange Stewardess’ (4.10.1952)
Rogue, US magazine
William F. Nolan, ‘Personality: Ian Fleming’ (February 1961)
The Spectator
Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist: Send for a Blacksmith!’ (1.1.1989)
Sunday Dispatch
‘Boy does not know his father is murderer’ (28.9.1952)
Sunday Pictorial
Ross Richards, ‘Girl Spy’ (19.8.1956)
The Telegraph
‘A. Kowerski-Kennedy’, obituary (14.12.1988)
‘Pearl Cornioley’, obituary (26.2.2008)
‘Sophie Moss’, obituary (3.12.2009)
‘Count Andrzej Skarbek’, obituary (10.1.2012)
The Times
Francis Cammaerts, ‘Patrick O’Regan’, obituary (14.3.1961)
‘Andrew Kennedy: undercover operations in wartime Eastern Europe’, obituary (15.12.1988)
‘Michael Lis’, obituary (16.8.1994)
Ray Kipling, letter, ‘Lives Remembered’ (15.12.2004)
‘Francis Cammaerts’, obituary (6.7.2006)
Unknown paper
Bill Stanley Moss, ‘What Makes a First-Class Secret Agent’ (c.1952)
ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNALS
Chambers’s Journal
Maurice Buckmaster, ‘All Communications Will be Cut’ (1946–7, republished online by Steven Kippax, 2011)
East European Quarterly
Józef Kasparek, ‘Poland’s 1938 Covert Operations in Ruthenia’, vol. XXIII, no. 3, pp. 365–73 (1989)
History Today
Adam Zamoyski, ‘The Underground Factory: Poland in 1939–45’ (1974)
The Polish Review
Christopher Kasparek, ‘Krystyna Skarbek: Re-viewing Britain’s legendary Polish agent’, XLIX, no 3, pp. 945–53 (2004)
———, ‘Letters to the Editor’ L, no 2 (2005), p. 254
Reform Review, journal of the Reform Club
Peter Hill, ‘Wartime espionage heroine’s murder … and the condemned man’s apology to the Club’ (Summer 2010)
POLISH PRESS
Beauty (Polish magazine)
Krzysztof Dubinski, ‘Like Dynamite’ (nd)
Esensja magazine
Sebastian Chosinski, ‘Daughter of Count Skarbek’ (10.12.2007)
Express Poranny (Morning Express)
‘Every Candidate: Miss Polonia 1930’ (January 1930)
Kurjer Warszawski
notice of Jerzy Skarbek’s death (12.12.1930)
Newsweek Poland
Dariusz Baliszewski, ‘The Mystery of Dr Z: Who was Stefan Witkowski?’ (no date)
Polish Week
Tadeusz Stachowski, ‘This would make a great movie!’ (16.12.2000)
———, Mieczysława Wazacz, ‘Heroes of Dangerous Adventures’ (30.12.2000)
Publicystyka
Zbigniew Cyran, ‘Zakopanski Bristol – znany I nieznany’ (‘Bristol Zakopane – the known and unknown’) (February 2010)
Rzeczpospolita
Tomasz Lenczewski, ‘Mariaze herbów i kont’ (‘The Marriage of Coats of Arms and Accounts’), 22 VII (2008)
Tydzien Polski (Polish Week)
Henryk Koaratynski, Mieczysława Wazacz interview (26.2.2005)
Unknown publication
Karol Zbyszewski, ‘Slawna Agentka’ (Famous Agent) (18.10.1975)
BRITISH FILM/TV/RADIO
BBC Radio Four, Women’s Hour, Madeleine Masson interview (29.12.2004)
Darlow Smithson Productions/Channel Four/Martyn Cox, The Real Charlotte Grays (2008), Francis Cammaerts interview
Martyn Cox/Our Secret War interviews, Paddy Sproule and Leslie Fernandez
RAF Film Production Unit, Now it Can Be Told (1946)
Mieczysława Wazacz (dir.), No Ordinary Countess (2010)
Yesterday Channel, The Secret War: Christine Granville, Polish Spy, Francis Cammaerts interview (27.6.2011)
FRENCH FILM
Association pour des Etudes sur la Résistance Intérieure, La Résistance dans la Drôme – le Vercors (2007)
Reymond Tonneau (dir.), Vercors: Pays de la Liberté (Vercors: Land of Liberty) (nd)
Jean-Paul le Chanois (dir.), Au Coeur de l’Orage (At The Heart of the Storm) (1948)
Laurent Lutaud (dir.), Le Plateau Déchiré: Maquis de Vercors (The Torn Plateau) (nd)
POLISH FILM
Andrzej Wajda, Kanal (1957)
MEMOIRS AND RECOLLECTIONS
(Published and unpublished)
BRITISH
Julian Amery, Approach March: a venture in autobiography (1973)
Ann Bridge, Facts and Fictions (1968)
Maurice Buckmaster, Specially Employed: The Story of British Aid to French Patriots of the Resistance (1952)
Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey: The Memoirs of Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (1950)
Marek Celt, By Parachute to Warsaw (1945)
Winston Churchill, The Second World War: III, The Grand Alliance (1956)
Ben Cowburn, No Cloak, No Dagger: Allied Spycraft in Occupied France (2009)
Aidan Crawley, Leap Before You Look: A Memoir (1988)
Basil Davidson, Special Operations Europe: Scenes from the Anti-Nazi War (1980)
Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang: An Autobiography, vol. 2 (1962)
Douglas Dodds-Parker, Setting Europe Ablaze: Some Account of Ungentlemanly Warfare (1983)
Daphne Fielding, The Nearest Way Home (1970)
Xan Fielding, Hide and Seek: The Story of a War-Time Agent (1954)
Jerzy Gizycki, ‘The Winding Trail’, unpublished memoir (nd)
Witold Gombrowicz, Polish Memories (2004)
Patrick Howarth (ed.), Special Operations (1955)
Michael Joseph, Charles: The Story of a Friendship (1943)
Peter Kemp, No Colours or Crest (1958)
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville: A Biographical Story’, draft manuscript (nd)
———, The Diary Abandoned in Ankara (1990)
Leo Marks, Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker’s War 1941–1945 (2000)
Zbigniew Mieczkowski, Horizons: Reflections of a Polish Émigré (2008)
———, ‘Poland in the Battle for Freedom – World War II’ (Lecture, Polish Embassy, Paris, 2008)
George Millar, Maquis (1946)
Nigel Nicholson (ed.), Harold Nicholson: Diaries and Letters 1930–39 (1966)
Sir Owen O’Malley, The Phantom Caravan (1954)
———, Katyn: Despatches of Sir Owen O’Malley to the British Government, etc. (1972)
Margaret Pawley, In Obedience to Instructions (1999)
Laura Pope, ‘Remembering Richard’, unpublished memoir (2005)
Ivor Porter, Operation Autonomous: With SOE in Wartime Romania (1989)
Bickham Sweet-Escott, Baker Street Irregular (1965)
Wilfred Thesiger, The Life of My Choice (1987)
Lord Vansittart, The Mist Procession: The Autobiography of Lord Vansittart (1958)
Peter Wilkinson, Foreign Fields: The Story of an SOE Operative (2002)
FRENCH*
Jeanne Barbier, Here, once, there was a French village (2005)
L’Abbé Fernand Gagnol, The Martyrs of Vercors (nd)
Daniel Huillier, Vercors: The Resistance, A teenager’s memories (2001)
Paul Jansen, Les Photos de Macrel Jansen, Reporter au Maquis (nd)
POLISH†
Tadeusz Breza, Nelly: About Her Friends and Herself (1983)
———, Memories (2002)
Regina Domañska, Pawiak: Gestapo Prison, Chronicle 1939–1944 (1978)
Arkardy Fiedler, The Women of My Youth (1989)
Józef Kasparek, The Carpathian Bridge: a Covert Polish Intelligence Operation (1992)
Kazimierz Leski, A Checkered Life: Memoirs of a Home Army Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence Offic
er (1995)
Stanisław Mackiewicz, Two Ladies Die After Talking to Me (1972)
Rafał Malczewski, Navel of the World: Memories of Zakopane (2003)
Anna Potocka, Through Hills and Valleys … (2011)
SECONDARY SOURCE PUBLICATIONS
BRITISH
Alan Allport, Demobbed: Coming Home After the Second World War (2009)
Christopher Andrew, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorised History of MI5 (2009)
Roderick Bailey, Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War (2008)
Jeffrey Bines, Operation Freston: The Military Mission to Poland, 1944 (1999)
———, The Polish Country Section of the SOE 1940–46: A British Perspective (2008)
Marcus Binney, The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Women Agents of SOE in the Second World War (2002)
Maurice Buckmaster, They Fought Alone: The Story of British Agents in France (1958)
E. H. Cookridge, They Came from the Sky (1976)
Artemis Cooper, Cairo in the War, 1939–1945 (1989)
Norman Davies, God’s Playground: A History of Poland in Two Volumes, vol. 2, 1979 to the Present (1981)
———, Rising ’44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004)
Richard Deacon (Donald McCormick), A History of the British Secret Service (1980)
———, Spyclopaedia: The Comprehensive Handbook of Espionage (1988)
Jeremy Duns, ‘Licence to Hoax’, www.jeremyduns.blogspot.com (2011)
David Engel, Facing a Holocaust: The Polish government-in-exile and the Jews, 1943–1945 (1993)
Beryl E. Escott, Mission Improbable: A Salute to the RAF women in wartime France (1991)
———, Heroines of SOE F Section: Britain’s Secret Women in France (2010)
Louis Fitzgibbon, Katyn Massacre: A Searing Indictment of the Shameful Concealment of Mass Murder (1989)
Ian Fleming, The Diamond Smugglers (1965)
M. R. D. Foot, SOE in France (1968)
———, SOE: An Outline History of the Special Operations Executive 1940–1946 (1999)
Arthur Layton Funk, Hidden Ally: The French Resistance, Special Operations, and the Landings in Southern France, 1944 (1992)
Jozef Garlinski, Poland, SOE and the Allies (1969)
John Griswold, Ian Fleming’s James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming’s Bond Stories (2006)
Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets: The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE (2008)
Patrick Howarth, Undercover: The Women and Men of the SOE (1990)
Ray Jenkins, A Pacifist at War: The Life of Francis Cammaerts: The Silence of Francis Cammaerts (2009)
Christopher Kasparek, ‘Krystyna Skarbek’, unpublished manuscript (2011)
Jan Leociak, Text in the Face of Destruction: Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto Reconsidered (2004)
Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming (1995)
Donald McCormick, 17F: The Life of Ian Fleming (1993)
Ben Macintyre, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond (2008)
William J. M. Mackenzie, The Secret History of SOE: The Special Operations Executive, 1940–1945 (2000)
Madeleine Masson, Christine: A Search for Christine Granville (1975)
———, Christine: SOE Agent and Churchill’s Favourite Spy (2005)
Roger Moorhouse, Killing Hitler: The Third Reich and the Plots Against the Führer (2006)
William Stanley Moss, Gold Is Where You Find It: What Happened to the Reichsbank Treasure? (1956)
Ron Nowicki, Warsaw: The Cabaret Years (1992)
Jonathan Oates, Unsolved London Murders: The 1940s and 1950s (2009)
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kościuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War Two (2003)
Michael Pearson, Tears of Glory: The Betrayal of Vercors 1944 (1978)
M. A. Peszke, The Polish Underground Army, The Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in World War Two (2005)
Anthony Read and David Fisher, Colonel Z: The Secret Life of a Master of Spies (1984)
Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: A New Instrument of War (2006)
Victor Selwyn (ed.), From Oasis Into Italy: War Poems and Diaries from Africa and Italy, 1940–1946 (1983)
Kurt Singer, Spies and Traitors: A Short History of Espionage (1953)
Timothy Snyder, Sketches from a Secret War (2007)
Peter D. Stachura (ed.), The Poles in Britain 1940–2000: From Betrayal to Assimilation (2004)
David Stafford, Secret Agent: The True Story of the Special Operations Executive (2000)
———, Churchill and the Secret Service (2001)
———, ‘The Tragedy of Christine Granville’, unpublished book proposal (c.2000)
David Stahel, Operation Barbarossa and Germany’s Defeat in the East (2009)
Teresa Stirling, Daria Nałęcz, Tadeusz Dubiki (eds), Intelligence Co-operation Between Poland and Great Britain during World War Two: The Report of the Anglo-Polish Historical Committee, vol. 1
Andrew Tarnowski, The Last Mazurka: A Tale of War, Passion and Loss (2006)
Jedrzej Tucholski, Cichociemni 1941–1945: profiles of paratroopers (1984)
Jonathan Walker, Poland Alone: Britain, SOE and the Collapse of the Polish Resistance, 1944 (2010)
Peter Wilkinson and Joan Bright Astley, Gubbins and SOE (1997)
Heather Williams, Parachutes, Patriots and Partisans: The Special Operations Executive and Yugoslavia, 1941–1945 (2003)
Adam Zamoyski, Chopin: A Biography (1981)
———, Poland: A History (2009)
———, The Forgotten Few: The Polish Air Force in World War II (2009)
POLISH
Roman Buczek, The Musketeers (Muszkieterowie, 1985), translated privately by Christopher Kasparek, 2011
Jadwiga Karbowska, Getting to know Mackiewicz (nd)
Jan Larecki, Krystyna Skarbek: Agent with Many Faces (2008), translated privately by Jan Ledóchowski, 2011
The Polish Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 18 (1973)
FICTION
Ann Bridge, A Place to Stand (1955)
———, The Tightening String (1962)*
Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1952)
Gavin Lyall, Midnight Plus One (1966)†
Olivia Manning, The Levant Trilogy (2003)‡
Maria Nurowska, Miłošnica (1999)§
WEBSITES
BBC WW2 People’s War, ‘Aniseed Balls and the Limpet Mine’, A4376153 (6.7.2005) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/53/a4376153.shtml
Museum of the History of Polish Jews, ‘Historical Monuments, Places of Martyrdom, Pawiak’ www.szetl.org.pl/en/city/warszawa/*
SS Maritime.com, ‘Ruahine: The New Zealand Shipping Company’, ship’s brochure (1950s) http://www.ssmaritime.com
PICTURE CREDITS
1: Copyright © Clare Mulley. 2: Copyright © Tomasz Lenczewski. 3: By courtesy of Maryś Skarbek. 4: © Express Poranny. 5: Courtesy of Maria Pienkowska. 6: By courtesy of Countess Jolanta Mycielska, photograph by Mieczysława Wazacz (director) No Ordinary Countess, 2010. 7, 19: By courtesy of the author. 8: Special Forces Roll of Honour, www.specialforcesroh.com. 9: By courtesy of Count Jan Ledóchowski. 10, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 28, 33, 34: By courtesy of Christine Isabelle Cole, Bill Stanley Moss Papers. 12: © National Portrait Gallery, London. 14: By courtesy of Ivor Porter. 15: By courtesy of Michael Ward. 16: By courtesy of Diana Hall, Professor Richard Truszkowski Papers. 21: © The National Archives, ref HS16/1. 22: The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London © Clare Mulley. 23: Getty Images. 24, 29: By kind permission of The Special Forces Club. 25: Marcel Jansen, Reporter au Maquis, Peuple Libre, 1994. 26: By permission of The Imperial War Museum, ref HU57101. 27: By permission of The Imperial War Museum, ref HU57120. 30: akg-images/ullstein bild. 31: akg-images/Electa. 32: The National Archives, ref HS9/612. 35: The National Archives, ref BT372/1138/116. 36: By courtesy of
Maryś Skarbek and by kind permission of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London, photograph © Clare Mulley. 37, 38: By courtesy of Christine Isabelle Cole, Bill Stanley Moss Papers/Picture Post. 39: The Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum, London.
Index
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Note: CG indicates Christine Granville.
Abwehr (German armed forces intelligence)
Afrika Corps, German Army
Agapov, Pierre
Air Council, British
Air Ministry, British
Alexander, General Harold
Algeria
Alps
Amery, Julian
Anders, General Władysław
Anstey, John
Atkins, Vera
ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Service)
Attlee, Clement
Auschwitz, Poland
Bałachowicz, General Stanisław
Balkans see also under individual nation name
Barbarossa, Operation (1941)
Barbier, Jeanne
Barcelonnette, France
Bari, Italy
BBC
Bęczkowice, Poland
Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Germany
Bevin, Ernest
Bialoguski, Olga
Billon, Francis
Black Brigade, Polish Army
Blanc, Arlette
Blanc, Suzy
Bleicher, Sergeant Hugo
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire
Bobinski, Colonel Władysław
Bolsheviks
Bomber Command, RAF
Bond books/characters
Bór-Komorowski, General Tadeusz
Bramousse, France
Brindisi, Italy
Britain
assurance of support to Poland in event of war
Battle of 1940
Bulgaria, severs relation with, WWII
CG in
declares war on Germany
Egypt and
Hungary, breaks off relations with, WWII
Poland, relations with during WWII
treatment of CG by authorities in, post-war
post-war
Russia, relations with during WWII
Warsaw Rising 1944 and see also British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and Special Operations Executive (SOE)