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Shadow Warriors of World War II

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by Gordon Thomas


  Polish Intelligence, 92–93

  Polish Resistance, 217

  Portal, Charles, 51, 52

  Potter, Mr. See Jepson, Selwyn

  Pound, Dudley, 158

  PQ-6, 158

  PQ-13, 158

  Prosper (code name). See Suttill, Francis

  Prosper network, 148, 176, 177–180, 182–184, 186–187, 192, 199

  Putlitz, Wolfgang zu, 126

  R

  Rabinovitz, Adam, 181, 182, 184

  radio operators. See wireless operators

  Rado, Emma Crisler, 85–86

  RAF, 9, 25, 45, 128, 199, 220, 243, 251

  RAF 138 Squadron, 53–54, 72–73, 156

  RAF 161 Squadron, 149, 156, 211

  RAF Reconnaissance Unit, 146

  RAF Tempsford, 55, 58, 98–99, 155, 162–163, 173, 227

  Rake, Denis, 221–222, 223–224, 240, 241–242

  Ravensbrück, 191–192, 252–253, 265, 266

  Red Orchestra, 80

  refractory cooler, 50

  Regis. See Savy, Jean

  Régis, Madame, 204–205

  Renoir, Claude, 257, 258

  Research and Analysis Office (OSS), 47, 75, 85, 133

  reseau. See networks, in France

  Reynaud, Pierre, 191

  Rhineland, 19

  Ringway Airfield (Manchester, England), 47

  Rochester, Elizabeth Devereaux, 129–133, 140–142, 144–147, 207–209, 214–216, 264

  Rolfe, Lilian, 252, 253

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 11–12, 18–19, 21, 36–37, 64, 74–77, 87, 117, 124, 126, 231

  Roosevelt, James, 61, 73

  Rose (code name). See Nearne, Eileen

  Rosenberg, Vera. See Atkins, Vera

  Rote Kapelle, 80

  Route One, 164

  Rowden, Diana, 112, 185, 188–190

  Royal Air Force. See RAF

  Royal Flight, 156

  Rudellat, Yvonne, 34, 108–110, 150–152, 178, 185, 264–265

  Rundstedt, Gerd von, 236

  S

  Sabotage (OSS), 133

  Saint network, 196–198

  Saint-Quentin, 206, 210

  Salazar, António, 69, 75

  Sansom, Odette, 148, 149, 180–182, 183–184, 207, 266–267

  Sartorious, Carlos and Carmencita, 14

  SAS (Special Air Service), 236–237

  Savy, Jean, 212–213, 219–220

  Schenck (German prison official), 260–261, 267

  Scherbius, Arthur, 88

  Schlesinger, Arthur, 122, 138

  Scholar network, 211, 246

  Scientific Self Defense (Fairbairn), 40

  Scientist II network, 228

  Scientist network, 186, 187

  Scott, S. M. See Menzies, Stewart Graham

  Second SS Panzer Division (Das Reich), 234–237, 244

  secret agents. See agents; women agents; and names of specific agents

  Secret Intelligence (OSS), 133

  Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 4, 18, 23, 26, 31, 49, 60, 91–92, 94, 96, 113–115, 140

  agents, 125, 217

  Betty Pack and, 89

  presence in the Americas, 65–66

  SOE-NKVD pact and, 158–162, 174

  Security Service, 3, 18, 31, 60, 65, 81–82, 97, 140

  Selborne, Lord. See Palmer, William (Lord Selborne)

  Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO), 200

  Shelley, Jack, 90, 91, 92

  Sherwood, Robert, 73–74

  Sicherheitsdienst (SD), 178, 182–184, 185, 186–187, 189–191, 193, 220, 266, 268

  Sinclair, Archibald, 53

  Sinclair, Hugh, 26–27

  SIS. See Secret Intelligence Service (SIS)

  Skarbek, Krystyna. See Granville, Christine

  Skepper, Charles, 204, 213, 214

  SLUs (special liaison units), 95–96

  Smith, Harold, 133

  Smith-Cumming, Mansfield, 23, 26

  SOE, 27, 50–52, 107, 199, 258, 268

  F Section (French Section) of, 4–7, 42–44, 110, 175, 176, 192, 234, 269

  recruitment by, 7–9, 22–23, 81–83, 153

  relationship with OSS, 77–78, 140, 155

  research and experimental stations, 44–46

  training schools, 6, 38–39, 41-42, 47–50, 71-72, 109, 156-161, 165

  Solange (code name). See Damerment, Madeleine

  Sologne, 151

  Sorensen, Christian, 257, 258, 259, 261

  Southgate, Maurice, 149, 199–200, 201–202, 203, 218–220, 253, 266

  Soviet Union, 157–161, 217

  Special Air Service (SAS), 236–237

  Special Duties Squadron, 53–54, 155

  special liaison units (SLUs), 95–96

  Special Operations (OSS), 47, 120, 133

  Special Operations Executive. See SOE

  Special Training Centre, 6

  Spellman, Francis Cardinal, 21

  S-phones, 245

  Spiritualist network, 251–225

  Spitfires (aircraft), 1, 154

  Stacey, David, 159, 161–162

  Stalin, Joseph, 66, 156–157, 231

  Starr, George, 181, 226

  Station 61 (code name). See Gaynes Hall

  Station VI-A, 46

  Stationer network, 149, 200–203, 218–219, 221

  Stawell, William, 218

  Steele, Arthur, 204–205, 214

  Stephenson, William, 17–18, 21, 23–24, 36, 39, 64–66, 86–87, 91, 113

  Allen Dulles and, 84–85

  Betty Pack and, 114–115, 263

  Donovan and, 31, 122, 125

  in Normandy, 231

  Pan Am Clipper flights and, 96, 97

  Pearl Harbor attack and, 74–76

  STO. See Service du Travail Obligatoire (STO)

  Stonehouse, Brian, 34, 265

  Stricht, Paul van der, 195–196

  Sudetenland, 19, 89, 91

  Sun Tzu, 2–3

  Sunday Express, 3

  Suttill, Francis, 111–112, 177, 178, 183, 185, 192, 264

  Switzerland, 81, 127

  Sykes, Eric, 162

  Symington, Priscilla, 138

  Szabo, Violette, 112, 236, 238, 252, 253, 267

  T

  Tanner, Jane, 139–140

  Tardivat, Henri “Tardi,” 223, 254–255, 256, 270

  Taylor, John, 105

  Tempsford, Bedfordshire, 54. See also RAF Tempsford

  Thame Park, 106

  Thatched Barn. See Experimental Station 15 (SOE)

  Thomas, Elizabeth (pseudonym). See Pack, Betty

  Thorpe, Elizabeth. See Pack, Betty

  Tietze, Georg, 171

  Time, 11

  Todt organization, 200

  training schools, 6, 38–39, 41–42, 47-50, 71–72, 86, 156-161, 165. See also finishing schools; and names of specific training stations

  Traugott, Lillian, 137

  Travis, Edward, 93

  Treviranus, Gottfried, 126

  Truman, Harry S., 268

  Tully, Grace, 36, 37, 75, 137

  Tunney, Gene, 18

  Turing, Alan, 93

  U

  U-boats, 87–88, 95–96

  Unternehmen Paukenschlag, 87

  USS Tuscaloosa (cruiser), 231

  V

  V-1 rockets, 63, 220

  V-2 rockets, 63

  Vanderbilt, William H., 122

  Vercors plateau, 216, 249–251

  Vereker, John (Lord Gort), 57–58

  Verity, Hugh, 228

  Vichy government, 34, 117, 118, 134, 136, 161, 200

  Villa Cécile, 237–238

  Villa Marie-Louise, 259

  Vogt, Ernest, 193

  von Clausewitz, Carl, 55

  W

  WAAFs, 29, 39, 82, 162–163

  Waem, Max, 260–261, 267

  Wake, Nancy, 134–137, 221–224, 240–242, 253–256, 270–271

  Walters, Anne-Marie, 226–228, 238–240, 267
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br />   Wanborough Manor (SOE Training Station 9), 42–44, 109

  War Office, 22, 43, 52, 140, 165, 180

  Wardman Park Hotel (Washington, DC), 117, 118, 120

  Warlimont, Walter, 20

  Warsaw, Poland, 89, 155, 164–165

  Washington Star, 61

  Wehrmacht, 19, 91, 128, 130, 134, 243, 245, 250–251

  Weis, Eleanor Grecay, 79–80, 81, 84–85, 138

  Welchman, Gordon, 93

  Wheelwright network, 226–227, 238–239

  White Mouse. See Wake, Nancy

  Williams, Donald. See Donovan, William Joseph

  wireless operators, 6, 106, 107–108, 142, 212, 246

  Witherington, Pearl, 201–202, 203, 219, 220–221, 242–245, 271

  Wizard network, 212

  women agents, 6–7, 27, 31–32, 72, 97–98, 123–124, 133–134, 269–272. See also agents; and names of specific agents

  awards and medals received by, 264, 270, 271

  in OSS, 47, 86, 137–140, 196–197

  roles of, 99, 107–108

  selection of, 21–23, 81–84, 99–103, 108–113

  training of, 48–50, 103–107, 112–113, 148

  Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. See WAAFs

  Wooldridge, S. H. C., 103

  Wrestler network, 221, 242

  X

  X-2 (OSS), 47, 85, 133

  About the Authors

  GORDON THOMAS is the author of fifty-six books. Several were Main Selections for the US Book of the Month Club, the Literary Guild, and the Readers Digest Book Club. He has received two Mark Twain Society Awards for Reporting Excellence. Seven of his books are major motion pictures, including Voyage of the Damned, which was nominated for three Academy Awards, and the TV movie Enola Gay. Experiences won the Jury’s and Critics’ prizes at the Monte Carlo TV Festival.

  He holds an Edgar Award for Shipwreck. In April 2006 he received the Citizens Commission for Human Rights Lifetime Achievement Award for Investigative Journalism.

  He has written extensively on all aspects of the work of the global intelligence community for over forty years.

  His Gideon’s Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad became a major documentary, which he wrote and narrated for Britain’s Channel 4, and was later shown worldwide. It followed three years of research during which he was given unprecedented access to Mossad’s key personnel. The book has been published internationally and is in its seventh edition.

  Thomas writes on intelligence matters for the Daily Telegraph (UK), Welt Am Sonntag and Bild (Germany), Wprost (Poland), and the Daily Telegraph (Australia). He has been a regular broadcaster on current affairs for the BBC and US networks and has lectured widely on the intelligence world.

  GREG LEWIS is a journalist, documentary maker, and writer. He has written a dozen nonfiction books on a variety of subjects, including history, popular culture, and sports. He also works as a ghostwriter.

  He has produced more than sixty documentaries for television and radio and has won major broadcast awards from BAFTA Cymru and the Guild of Health Writers UK.

  His biography of Irish American prizefighter Tom Sharkey, I Fought Them All, which Lewis wrote with his wife, Moira Sharkey, won a Wishing Shelf nonfiction award.

  His journalism has appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines, including the Times (UK), Private Eye (UK), and Military History (US).

  Greg lives in Wales with Moira and their two children, Evan and Caoimhe.

 

 

 


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