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INDEX
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1st Searchlight Regiment 24, 160
2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards 23
A. G. Spalding & Bros 89
Africa 34, 52, 53, 59, 71
Air Ministry 34, 54, 201, 209
Alabama 10, 40
Alger 125
Allied Paper Merchants 81
Alston, E. D. 78, 80, 81, 92
Arnhem 46, 60, 63
Asia, southeast 53, 72
Assistant Directorate of Intelligence (Logistics) 75
Atlanta 10, 40
Austria 46, 193
Author’s Society 106
Babington, Anthony 116
backgammon 89
Baden-Powell, R. S. S. 33
Bader, Douglas 30
Baghdad 82
Baileys 93
Balchin, W. G. V. 7, 197, 198
Baltic Coast 175
Baltic ports 9, 76, 87, 125, 139, 148, 173–188
Barcelona, 205
Barry, Captain R. F. T. 169
Bartholomew see John Bartholomew & Son Ltd
Bartholomew, John 34
Bartholomew, John “Ian” 34, 35, 52, 54
Batavia (Jakarta) 72
BBC 181
Beethoven 97
Beirut 82
Belgian–German frontier 70
Belgium 67, 70
Bentley, E. C. 45
Berlin 107, 186
Berne 149
Beset by Secrecy and Beleaguered by Rivals 208
Between Silk and Cyanide 66, 208
Biberach 164, 192
Biography for Beginners 45
Bjorn 186
Blair, Lieutenant 14
Blanchain, Francis 164
Bletchley Park 145, 208
board games 90
Bordeaux 207, 208
Bowes, Christopher 79, 91
Boy’s Own Paper 33
Breese, Flight Lieutenant J. C. 95, 106
Bremen 89, 120, 180
bridge 92
Briscoe, Professor H. V. A. 81
British Admiralty chart 54, 173
British Army 21, 25, 26, 82, 83, 119, 179
British Consulate, 100, 186
British Expeditionary Force (BEF) 25
British Intelligence in the Second World War 206
British Library 45, 79
British Military Attaché 128, 143
British Museum 33
Browns Sports Shop 106
Brunswick 109
Brunswick Printers 190, 191
Brussels, 205
Buckley, Lieutenant S. E. 156
Bulletin see MI9 Bulletin
Burma 72, 73
Bushy Park 83
Cairo 82
Calais 160
Calcutta 42, 82
Canada 123
Caspian Sea 81
Cavell, Edith Louisa 203, 205
Chamberlain, Neville 15
chess 89, 92, 93, 124, 125
China 37, 40, 72, 73
Christmas crackers 97
Churchill, Winston 8, 86, 93, 197, 206, 208
cigars 93
Civil War (American) 40
Clausthal 21
Clough, Brigadier A. B. 33
Coastal Defence Area 100
Cockleshell Heroes 207
Code Book, The 115
coded correspondence 115–141
coded letters 115–141, 143, 178
Col Powder lamination 94
Colditz see Oflag IVC (Colditz)
Colditz Story, The 160
Collier, Peter 198
Columbia 94
Comet Line 24, 148, 149
Conduct of Work No. 48 15, 16
Connell, Charles 201
Constance, Lake 22, 149, 164, 189, 192
cribbage 89
cricket 89
Crockatt, Brigadier Norman R. 17, 18, 21, 24, 26, 30, 199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210, 213, 214
Crown and Anchor Mission 106
Cuba 40
Cumberland Pencil Company 98
Curragh 58
D-Day see Normandy Landings
Dansey, Colonel Claude 203, 205, 206, 208, 213
Danzig 46
, 50, 54, 87, 173, 174, 175, 181, 185, 186, 187 darts 89
Defence Geographic Centre 60
Delhi 82
Denmark 64, 70, 73, 186
Derry, Sam 209
Dick 27
Dorington Committee 43
Double Eagle 46, 81, 193
draughts 89
Dunkirk 8, 13, 23, 85, 179, 206
Durnford, H. G. 27, 33
Dutch Girl 46, 60, 63
Embry, Air Marshall Sir Basil 201
Emerald 81
EMI 94
Empire Service League, The 106
ENIGMA 143, 144, 145
Escape Committee 109, 124, 125, 142, 143, 166, 181
escape packs 84, 102, 103, 104
escape-mindedness 9, 26, 169, 210
Escaping Club, The 22, 158
Europe 34, 52, 53, 59, 60, 70, 71, 73, 76, 100, 116, 149, 173, 187, 206
Europe Air series 49, 51, 59, 60, 61, 63, 81, 83, 192
Evans, Flight Lieutenant A. J. “Johnny” 13, 21, 22, 23, 25, 30, 33, 102, 119, 156, 158, 159
Evans, Philip Radcliffe 190
Far East 82
Ffrench-Mullen, Flight Lieutenant D. A. 95
Fight Another Day 24, 197, 210
Finland 73, 173
Finnish ships 186
Foot, M. R. D. 13, 18, 21, 112, 115, 116, 145, 162, 165, 171, 198, 199, 202, 203, 213
Foreign Office, 203
Forrest, Dr David 189
Fort 9 Ingolstadt 13, 22
Fortune, General Sir V. M. 127
France 24, 37, 63, 70, 82, 91, 100, 103, 117, 148, 206, 213
French Indo-China 73
French–Spanish border 67, 149
From Colditz in Code 116, 120
Gaddum, H. T. 82
Gaddum, P. W. 82
Garrison Map 33, 37, 40
Garrison Outline Map 40
Gdynia 85, 173, 175
General Map of Ireland 58
Geneva Convention, The 58, 98, 104, 115, 121
Geographia Ltd 34, 52
Geographic Section General Staff (GSGS) 83, 198, 199
Geographical Journal, The 7
GeoMapping Unit 193
George 27
George Philip & Son Ltd 79
Georgia, northwestern 10, 40
German Government Chart 173
German–Swiss border see Swiss Frontier
Germany 14, 17, 21, 23, 24, 27, 33, 46, 54, 64, 70, 73, 86, 91, 100, 102, 109, 113, 118, 125, 127, 128, 137, 139, 147, 148, 149, 159, 160, 163, 166, 167, 169, 171, 175, 178, 179, 180, 193, 210
Gestapo 143, 213
Gibraltar 205
Gironde, River 208
‘goings’ information 152