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Where the Hell Have You Been?

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by Tom Carver


  INDEX

  Afrika Korps 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Alexander, General Harold 1, 2, 3

  Allen, Larry 1

  Auchinleck, General Claude 1, 2

  Badoglio, Marshal Pietro 1

  Bates, Michael 1

  Billany, Dan 1, 2

  Blanchaert, Lieutenant Leon 1

  Bletchley Park 1

  Bowker, Lt Commander 1

  Brooke, General Alan 1, 2, 3

  Burg-el-Arab 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Cage, The 1, 2

  Carver family 1, 2

  Carver, Audrey appendix, rupture 1

  children, demands of 1

  death of 1

  home 1

  honeymoon in Italy 1

  marriage to Richard 1

  Richard meeting 1

  Richard proposing to 1

  second pregnancy 1

  Steve’s widow, as 1, 2

  twins, giving birth to 1

  Carver, Betty (later Montgomery) army wife, as 1

  Bernard, meeting 1

  death of 1

  funeral 1

  leg, inflammation of 1, 2

  Lenk, holidaying at 1, 2, 3

  marriage to Bernard 1, 2

  Oswald, memory of 1

  Slade Academy of Art, attending 1

  Carver, Christopher birth of 1

  christening 1

  Julie’s mother, living with 1

  Carver, John Bernard, meeting 1

  early life 1, 2

  Carver, Jude 1, 2, 3, 4

  Carver, Julie Christopher, birth of 1

  death of 1, 2

  description of 1

  Ismailia, in 1, 2

  marriage 1

  Carver, Oswald 1, 2, 3

  Carver, Richard army, Bernard persuading to join 1

  army, staying in 1

  Atessa, reaching 1

  Audrey, meeting 1

  Audrey, proposing to 1

  Bari, arrival in 1

  Bernard, meeting 1

  Betty’s death, hearing of 1

  camp, memories of 1

  carer 1

  cave, living in 1, 2

  character 1, 2

  Charterhouse, at 1, 2

  Christmas Island, posting to 1

  civilian life 1

  Dean, travelling with 1

  death of 1

  death of Julie, impact of 1, 2

  early life 1, 2

  escape route, map of 1

  feelings, hiding 1

  Fontanellato, final trip to 1

  Fontanellato, move to 1, 2

  Germans, capture by 1

  Gill, travelling with 1

  home 1

  home, reaching 1

  Ismailia, in 1, 2, 3

  Italy, journey through 1

  et seq

  Kenya, posting to 1

  last years 1

  leader, as 1

  leg injury 1

  marriage to Audrey 1

  marriage to Julie 1

  Monty’s headquarters, joining 1

  Monty’s stepson, being 1

  next of kin 1

  Normandy, in 1, 2

  ops officer, as 1

  Paglieta, reaching 1

  past, talking about 1, 2

  Poppi, sent to, 1

  prisoner of war, as 1, 2

  prisoner-of-war experiences, pamphlet on 1

  rank 1

  report of affairs 1

  retirement 1, 2

  Royal Engineers in Fontanellato, in charge of 1

  Royal Engineers Records Office, running 1

  Sangro, crossing 1, 2

  second honeymoon 1, 2

  social revolution, effect of 1, 2

  teacher, becoming 1

  twins, birth of 1

  Carver, Tom birth of 1

  de Gregorios, visit to 1

  Charities, fake 1

  Charterhouse 1, 2

  Churchill, Winston 1 death of Gott, informed of 1

  Eighth Army, visiting 1

  Montgomery, consideration for appointment 1

  Monty’s visitor’s book, writing in 1

  pneumonia, struck with 1

  Clarke, Jack 1

  Coconuts, posting 1

  Colditz, hostages in 1

  Camino, Captain 1, 2, 3, 4

  Comyn, Lieutenant 1

  Crockatt, Brigadier Norman 1

  Cucchini, Doctor 1, 2, 3

  Daba 1, 2

  de Burgh, Colonel Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  de Gregorio, Alfonso 1, 2, 3, 4

  de Gregorio, Antonio 1, 2, 3, 4

  de Gregorio, Donato 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  de Gregorio, Giovanni 1, 2, 3

  de Gregorio, Maria 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  de Gregorio, Maria (Alfonso’s wife) 1, 2

  Dowie, David 1, 2

  Dumpton School 1

  Dunkirk 1

  Eighth Army 1, 2 Churchill visiting 1

  Italy, in 1

  Montgomery taking charge of 1

  numbers in 1

  offensive, on 1

  Richard joining 1

  Eisenhower, General 1, 2

  El Alamein 1, 2

  Eremo dei Frati Bianchi 1

  Fane–Hervey, Fanny 1

  Fontanellato camp 1, 2 alcohol ration 1, 2

  Carver family visit to 1

  defence of 1

  description of 1, 2

  Drama Group 1, 2

  escape from 1

  fall of Mussolini, following 1, 2

  gay love affair in 1

  Germans reaching 1

  girls walking at 1

  letters 1, 2, 3

  life in 1, 2

  location 1, 2

  numbers in 1

  POWs leaving 1

  Red Cross parcels 1

  Richard arriving at 1, 2, 3

  Richard let out from 1

  sixtieth anniversary visit 1

  Tommy’s Bar 1

  tunnel, construction of 1

  walks from 1

  warders 1

  Fontanellato, town of 1

  Friedel, Major 1

  Gill, Jim 1, 2

  Gordon, Major 1, 2

  Gort, John 1

  Gott, General William “Strafer” 1, 2, 3

  H-bombs 1

  Isington Mill 1

  Italy Allies in 1

  armistice with Allies 1

  British prisoners, fate of 1

  forbidden activities, list of 1

  German defensive lines 1, 2

  German divisions in 1

  German occupation 1, 2

  mainland, Monty landing in 1

  James, “Jimmy” 1, 2

  Kenya, Richard posted to 1

  Kesselring, Field Marshal 1, 2, 3, 4,

  Kinsel, General 1

  Lannutti, Antonio 1, 2

  Lannutti, Barbara 1, 2

  Light, Captain “Badger” 1

  Lumsden, General Herbert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  MacDonnell, Tony 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 diary 1, 2

  escape by boat 1

  Gloomy Dean, as 1

  Mainwaring, Hugh 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Marlene, Lily 1

  Maskelyne, Jasper 1

  Mather, Carol 1, 2, 3, 4

  Mersa Matruh 1, 2, 3, 4

  MI9 1, 2, 3

  Montgomery, Bernard absurd, sense of 1

  anxiety 1

  army dress 1

  army, joining 1

  artillery chief, capture of 1

  Betty’s death, impact of 1

  Betty, meeting 1

  brigadier, promotion to 1

  books by 1

  caravans 1

  character 1, 2

  Charterhouse, inspecting 1, 2

  Chief of Imperial General Staff, as 1, 2

  commander of land forces, lobbying for position of 1, 2

  eccentricity 1

  Eighth Army, consideration for 1

  Eighth Army, taking charge of 1<
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  exhibition on 1

  fame 1

  father 1

  home, loss of 1

  household management 1

  Isington Mill, living in 1

  Italian mainland, on 1

  Italy, conquering 1

  leadership and bravery, reputation for 1

  marriage 1

  mother 1

  orderliness and self-discipline 1

  power wielded by 1, 2

  retirement 1

  Richard, greeting in Paglieta 1

  Richard, seeking 1

  Richard’s next of kin, claim to be 1

  Sicily, landing in 1

  South-Eastern Army, in charge of 1

  St Paul’s School, at 1

  stamps, sending to Tom 1

  surrender terms, discussion of 1

  Tasmania, early years in 1

  violent streak 1

  visitor’s book 1, 2

  war stories 1, 2

  Montgomery, Betty see Carver, Betty (later Montgomery)

  Montgomery, David birth 1

  return to school during Betty’s illness 1

  Montgomery, Maud 1

  Morrison, Pop 1

  Mussolini, Benito coup against 1

  deposition 1, 2

  Newby, Eric 1

  North Africa German tanks, loss of 1, 2

  mines 1

  non-combatants 1

  Operation Supercharge 1

  panzer division, attack by 1

  terrain 1

  von Thoma, surrender 1

  Nuclear tests 1

  O’Bryen, Julie see Carver, Julie

  Operation Overlord 1

  Operation Supercharge 1, 2

  Patton 1, 2

  Patton, George 1

  Poppi camp 1, 2 escape plan 1

  move from 1

  Pringlewood, Flight Lieutenant 1, 2

  Radio Padre messages 1, 2

  Rainford, Bill 1

  Ranfurly, Earl of 1, 2

  Reynolds, Phyllis 1, 2

  Rommel, Erwin 1, 2, 3 Deutsches Afrika Korps, resignation as head of 1

  exit, blocking 1, 2

  failure to trap 1

  professional soldier, as 1

  retreat, considering 1, 2

  Royal Engineers Records Office 1

  Royal Military Academy Sandhurst 1

  Santuario Madonna del Rosario 1

  Simonds, Colonel 1, 2

  Spence, Flight Lieutenant 1

  Stephenson, Audrey see Carver, Audrey

  Stephenson, Rex 1

  Stephenson, Steve 1, 2

  Tobruk, capture of 1

  Turner, Captain 1

  Vicedomini, Colonnello Eugenio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  von Friedeburg, General Admiral 1

  von Thoma, General Wilhelm 1, 2, 3

  Wagner, Rear Admiral 1

  Wilson, General “Jumbo” 1

  Wright, Reverend Selby 1, 2

  About the Author

  Tom Carver was a long-time foreign correspondent with the BBC. He was latterly the BBC’s Washington Correspondent and continues to live in Washington working as a writer and consultant. He is the step-grandson of Field Marshal Montgomery.

  Copyright

  First published in the UK in 2009

  by Short Books

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  Pine Street

  London EC1R 0JH

  This ebook edition first published in 2013

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