Orme, Stan, 231, 232
O’Sullivan, Barry, 93
Oxford Union, 20, 24–5, 149
pacifism, 20–1, 23, 25–6, 51
Page, Major, 110–11
Paisley, Ian, 239
Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), 242, 254, 256
Palmer, Arthur, 221
Paris, 97, 99, 113, 114–15, 129–30, 165
Parkinson, Cecil, 190
Parris, Matthew, 244
Paubon, Paul, 212
Penkovsky, Oleg, 175–6
pensions, 171, 186
Peyton, John, 225
Phillimore, Harry, 139
Poland, 58, 64–70, 143, 171–2
Poole, Major, 42
Potier, Dominique-Edgar, 140
Powell, Enoch, 172
Prawitz, Oberst (Colditz commandant), 75
Priem, Paul, 74
Prior, Jim, 225
prison-camps, Second World War: school as preparation for, 15–16, 71, 72–3; AN’s impulse to escape, 52–3, 55, 57, 60–8; Oflag IXA/H (in castle of Spangenberg), 52–3, 56–8; British military and class system at, 56, 57–8; desolation felt by POWs, 56; pioneer escapers, 57–8; Red Cross parcels, 58, 76; Stalag Luft VI (Heydekrug), 59; ardent escapers, 59–60, 61–2, 64–5, 71, 77–8; Stalag XXa (Thorn, Poland), 59–64, 69; bravery of Polish helpers of escapers, 66–7; Oflag VI-A, Soest, 79–80; Oflag VB, Biberach, 91, 93; Stalag XIB, Fallingbostel, 133; murder of ‘Great Escape’ airmen, 142–3; Stalag Luft III, Sagan, 142–3, 150; see also Colditz
Profumo scandal (1963), 165
Pyrenees, 91, 96, 101, 111, 112, 113, 115, 117, 118
Queen magazine, 164
Queen’s Hospital for Children, London, 10
Radley College, 187–8
Rathenau, Walter, 20
Reece, Gordon, 218, 222
Rees, Merlyn, 230–1, 235, 246
Rees-Davies, William, 217
Reid, Pat, 57, 59, 74, 75, 76, 77–8, 81, 89, 155, 183
Renton, Sir David, 198
Ribbentrop, Joachim, 26, 141
Ridley, Nicholas, 197
Ridsdale, Julian, 207
Robilliard, Joy, 2–3, 149, 195, 199, 248
Rodgers, Sir John, 224
Rommel, Erwin, 83
Rose, Michael, 236
Royal Air Force (RAF), 23, 33, 114, 125–7, 138; airmen as POWs, 57, 59–60, 61, 64; MI9 recovery of aircrews, 104, 113, 114, 116–17, 124, 125–9
Royal Canadian Engineers, 134
Royal Dutch East Indies Army, 79, 84
Royal Navy, 52, 98, 123
Royal Ulster Constabulary, Special Branch, 250, 257
Ruddy, Seamus, 242
Rueff, Marcus, 21
Ryan, Richie, 243
Ryder, Caroline, 227, 259, 264
Ryder, Richard, 2, 3, 223, 224, 227–8, 245, 246, 264
Ryder, Sue, 24
Saunders-Davies, Meredydd, 149, 187
Schirach, Baldur von, 141
Schmidt, Ulla, 165
Scott, Peter Hardiman, 221
Second World War: and Robert Maugham, 22; Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, 60, 67–8, 69; British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 29–30, 31–49, 50–1; Nazi invasion of France and Low Countries (May 1940), 29–49; defence of Calais (May 1940), 29, 30, 31–49, 50–1, 95, 154; AN’s military service in, 29–30, 31–49, 50–1; Dunkirk evacuation, 46, 54–5; Eastern Front, 83; Dieppe Raid, 131; raid on Bordeaux docks (‘Cockleshell Heroes’), 121–2, 141–2; D-Day/Normandy invasion, 125–9, 131; Patton’s Third Army, 127; Arnhem debacle (September 1944), 130–6; German surrender, 136; impact on AN, 154–6
secret and military intelligence: AN’s early interest in, 13–14; Special Operations Executive, 21, 98, 109, 118, 120, 122; and Robert Maugham, 22; inter-agency rivalries, 60, 92, 98, 109–10, 120; MI6, 92, 98–100, 109, 110, 111, 120, 175; as often a family affair, 105; Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), 110, 158, 212; MI5, 175; Greville Wynne story, 175–6; and Troubles in Northern Ireland, 235; see also MI9 (escape and evasion organisation)
Sharples, Sir Richard, 228
Shawcross, Hartley, 142
Shelton, Bill, 218, 222
Shrivenham, Military College of Science, 148, 156–7
Silverman, Sidney, 161
Simon, Louis, 95
Sinclair, Michael, 45
Singen (German border town), 79–80, 84, 85, 86
Sixpenny: Stories and Poems by Etonians (magazine), 20–1
Smith, Jim (rector of St Mary at Longworth), 7
Soames, Christopher, 263–4
Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP), 234, 239
Somerset, N.F., 61
Soviet Union, 60, 171–2, 175–6; Molotov–Ribbentrop pact, 60, 67–8, 69; Katyn massacre (1940), 66, 143, 171–2; legal team at Nuremberg, 143, 144
Spain, 91, 101, 113, 122
Spangenberg, castle of, 52–3, 56–8
Sparks, Bill, 121–2
Special Air Service (SAS), 127–8, 176, 177, 235
St Ronan’s Preparatory School (Worthing then Hawkhurst), 11, 163
Stallard, A. F., 45
Steinmetz, Francis, 80
Stirling, David, 177
Straight, Whitney, 116
Strayer, Robert, 135
Streicher, Julius, 141
Suez crisis (1956), 159–60
Switzerland, 79–80, 85, 86–7, 88–93, 94–5, 122
Sykes, Sir Richard, 247
Tatham-Warter, Digby, 131, 135
Taylor, John, 39–40
Taylor. Peter, 70
Tebbit, Norman, 72–3, 223
Territorial Army, 26–8, 104–5, 152, 157, 158, 179–80
Terwindt, Beatrix, 122, 188
Thameside primary school, Abingdon, 187
Thatcher, Denis, 7, 186–7, 188, 210
Thatcher, Margaret: at Somerville, 25; early political career, 186; AN’s admiration for, 115, 186–8, 190, 210, 225, 263–4; radical right-wing doctrines of, 160, 188, 264; on AN’s political views, 174; robust advice to AN on criticism, 182; character of, 186, 188, 225, 264; as Secretary of State for Education and Science, 186–8, 191; as visitor at Old Vicarage, 186–8, 190, 210; and social class, 190, 192, 263–4; AN sees as possible leader, 191–2, 200, 209–10, 211; opposes deal with Liberals (February 1974), 196; and leadership issue (1974–5), 203, 210, 211–14, 215–17; decides on leadership campaign (November 1974), 211–12; Pre-Retirement Choice interview, 213; AN runs leadership campaign, 1, 168, 176, 217–25; becomes Tory leader (11 February 1975), 225; appoints Shadow Cabinet, 226; AN heads private office, 227; and Northern Ireland, 234, 236, 243, 264; and fall of Callaghan government, 244; and death of AN, 4, 89, 259, 260; at AN’s funeral, 7; remembers AN on steps of Downing Street (4 May 1979), 260
Thompson, Sir Edward, 173
Thornborough, Company Sergeant Major, 63
Thorpe, Jeremy, 196
Tilney, Hugh, 109
Tone, Wolfe, 239–40
trade unions, 176–7, 178–9, 180–1, 192–4, 195, 200, 244
Tree, David (David Parsons), 21–2
Trollope, Angela, 108
Trollope, Sylvia, 108
Ugandan Asians, 172–3
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 173
Ursel, Count Antoine d’, 115
Usandizaga, Françoise, 117
Vichy regime, 91, 93–4
Volchkov, Alexander Fedorovich, 143
Walker, General Sir Walter, 177
Wardle, Howard ‘Hank’, 57, 77–8, 81
Watkinson, Harold, 161
Weatherill, Bernard, 199, 203, 205, 211
Webb, Richard (husband of Marigold), 164, 166–7, 199, 200
West, Rebecca, 144
West German Ireland Solidarity Committee, 242
Westminster Gardens, Marsham Street, 2, 199–200, 225, 248, 251, 254
Wharton, Ken, 258–9
Whitelaw, William: as leadership contender, 191, 194, 197, 200, 202–3, 209, 210, 216, 218, 225; as Nort
hern Ireland Secretary, 191, 227, 230; Thatcher as nervous of, 263–4
Wigg, George, 157–8
Willey, Harold B., 140
Wilson, Harold, 195, 196, 200, 201, 235
Windham-Wright, Pat, 123
‘Winter of Discontent’, 1
Wittek, Suzanne, 114
Woollatt, Hugh, 91, 93, 94–5, 96, 99, 100–1, 103–4, 105
Wordsworth, William, ‘She was a Phantom of delight’, 187–8
World in Action (TV programme), 222
Wynne, Greville, 175–6
Younger, George, 226
Yule, Jimmy, 77
Also by Patrick Bishop
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THE WINTER WAR (with John Witherow)
THE PROVISIONAL IRA (with Eamon Mallie)
THE IRISH EMPIRE
FAMOUS VICTORY
FIGHTER BOYS: SAVING BRITAIN 1940
BOMBER BOYS: FIGHTING BACK 1940–1945
3 PARA
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
GROUND TRUTH – 3 PARA: RETURN TO AFGHANISTAN
TARGET TIRPITZ
WINGS
THE RECKONING
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A GOOD WAR
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