The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and Lives of Christine Granville (59 page)

49
Ibid.

50
Selwyn (ed.),
From Oasis Into Italy,
Anon, ‘Ode to a Gezira Lovely’, pp. 69–70.

51
Tarnowski,
The Last Mazurka,
p. 201.

52
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 140.

53
Patrick Howarth interview, Jeff Bines private archive (August 2001).

54
Patrick Howarth, ‘Play back a Lifetime’, poem first published in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 251.

55
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 72.

56
TNA, HS4/201, MXI to MX (29.9.1942).

57
Ibid., MPX to MX (16.12.1942).

58
Ibid.

59
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (9.4.1942).

60
Patrick Howarth, quoted in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 144.

61
Imperial War Museum, sound archive, 9827, Patrick Howarth.

62
Ibid.

63
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 37.

64
Ibid., p. 73.

65
Ibid., p. 72.

66
IWM, Sound Archive, 11087, Gwendolin Lees.

67
Ibid.

68
TNA, HS4/201, MXI to MX (29.9.1942).

69
Ibid., MXI to MX (24.10.1942).

70
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 255.

71
IWM, Sound Archive, 8685, Annette Street.

72
Margaret Pawley, interview (December 2010).

73
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 74.

74
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 108.

75
IWM 2/11, Gubbins papers, BBC speech on SOE and the use of women (4.1.1946).

76
Pawley,
In Obedience,
p. 71.

77
Wazacz,
No Ordinary Countess,
Margaret Pawley interview.

78
TNA, HS4/201, MPX to MX (26.9.1942).

79
Ibid.

80
TNA/HS4/201, MPX to MX (16.12.1942).

81
TNA, HS9/612, MPX to MX (16.12.1942).

82
TNA/HS4/201, MPX to MX (16.12.1942).

83
TNA, HS9/612, AD to DCD (15.12.1942).

84
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 141.

85
Escott,
Heroines of SOE F Section,
pp. 211–15; also Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 213.

86
TNA, HS9/612, Granville to Francis Brooks Richards (27.7.1944).

87
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (16.9.1943).

88
TNA, HS4/141, MPX to MXI (4.5.1943).

89
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, pp. 197–8.

90
TNA, HS4/201, MPX to MX (16.12.1942).

91
TNA, HS4/141, MXI to MX (1.1.1943); and MXI to MX (6.2.1943).

92
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 323.

93
TNA, HS4/141, MXI to MX (27.2.1943).

94
Ibid., MX to CD (20.3.1943).

95
TNA, KV2/517, DG through DDE (nd); also Vera Long interview with Jeff Bines (
c.
2000).

96
TNA, HS4/141, MPX (6.4.1943).

97
Ibid., MPX to MXI (3.4.1943).

98
Ibid., MXI to MX (7.4.1943).

99
Ibid.

100
TNA, HS4/141, MPX to MXI (4.5.1943).

101
Engel,
Facing a Holocaust,
p. 71.

102
Fitzgibbon,
Katyn Massacre,
p. 13.

103
Ibid., p. 222.

104
Leon Najberg, quoted in Leociak,
Text in the Face of Destruction,
p. 188.

105
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 58.

106
IWM, sound archive, 9827, Patrick Howarth.

107
TNA, HS4/141, MXI to MP (2.7.1943).

108
TNA, FO954/19B, Minister of State Cairo to Foreign Office (3.7.1943).

109
Sebastian Chosinski, ‘Daughter of Count Skarbek’,
Esensja
magazine (10.12.2007).

110
IWM, 2/11 Gubbins papers, 3/2/59, letters between Gubbins and Hugh Trevor Roper (February 1969).

111
Ray Kipling, ‘Lives Remembered’, letter to
The Times
(15.12.2004).

112
TNA, FO/371, Death of Sikorski, draft broadcast by the prime minister.

113
TNA, HS4/141, MXI to MP (17.7.1943).

9: OUR WOMAN IN ALGIERS

1
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 181.

2
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 222.

3
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 181.

4
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 358.

5
Douglas Dodds-Parker, interviewed by Jeff Bines (
c.
2000).

6
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
introduction.

7
Ibid., p. 155.

8
TNA, HS4/201 (29.10.1942).

9
TNA, HS4/141, MXI to MP (10.8.1943).

10
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (16.9.1942).

11
IWM, Sound Archive, 13442, Richard Trevebyn Rockingham Gill.

12
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (16.9.1942).

13
Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist’, the
Spectator
(1.1.1989).

14
Ibid.

15
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (16.9.1943).

16
Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist’, the
Spectator
(1.1.1989).

17
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 148.

18
O’Malley papers, Andrzej Kowerski to Kate O’Malley (25.3.1944).

19
O’Malley papers, Granville to Kate O’Malley (16.9.1943).

20
Ibid.

21
Ibid.

22
Tarnowski,
The Last Mazurka,
p. 215.

23
Cooper,
Cairo in the War,
p. 285.

24
Tarnowski,
The Last Mazurka,
p. 221.

25
Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist’, the
Spectator
(1.1.1989).

26
Pope, ‘Remembering Richard’, p. 12; and Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 73.

27
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 73.

28
Cole/Moss papers, Bill Stanley Moss papers (
c.
1952).

29
Ibid.

30
Ibid.

31
Patrick Leigh Fermor, ‘The One-Legged Parachutist’, the
Spectator
(1.1.1989).

32
Cole/Moss papers, Bill Stanley Moss papers (
c.
1952).

33
Ross Richards, ‘Girl Spy’,
Sunday Pictorial
(19.8.1956).

34
Cole/Moss papers, Bill Stanley Moss papers (
c.
1952).

35
Darlow Smithson/Channel Four,
The Real Charlotte Grays,
Francis Cammaerts interview.

36
Helm,
A Life in Secrets,
p. 8.

37
IWM, Gubbins papers, 2/11, 6/1-2-3, Gubbins’s SOE manuals.

38
Porter,
Operation Autonomous,
p. 83.

39
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 188.

40
IWM, Sound Archive, 8680, Maurice Buckmaster.

41
Foot,
SOE: An Outline History,
p. 82.

42
Stafford,
Secret Agent,
p. 30.

43
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 169.

44
Tarnowski,
The Last Mazurka,
p. 221.

45
IWM, Annette Street papers, ‘Darling Joe, Please Go’.

46
TNA, HS4/86, MXI/SKE/559, ‘Appreciation on proposed operation to prepare reception committee in Hungary’ (25.3.1944).

47
Ibid.

48
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Julian Dobrinski papers, 21/6.

49
TNA, HS9/612, MXI/SKE/559, ‘Appreciation on proposed operation to prepare reception committee in Hungary’ (25.3.1944).

50
TNA, HS4/86, MXI/SKE/559, ‘Appreciation on proposed operation to prepare reception committee in Hungary’ (25.3.1944).

51
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Julian Dobrinski papers, 21/6.

52
TNA, HS4/86, MXI/SKE/559, ‘Appreciation on proposed operation to prepare reception committee in Hungary’ (25.3.1944).

53
Ibid.

54
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Julian Dobrinski papers, 21/6, ‘Operation Kris’ (22.3.1944).

55
TNA, HS9/612, MP/3048 (7.4.1944).

56
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Julian Dobrinski papers, 21/6, Cipher message (14.4.1944).

57
TNA, HS9/612, DEN/20/24 (17.4.1944).

58
Wladimir Ledóchowski, ‘Christine Skarbek-Granville’, p. 200.

59
Bill Stanley Moss, ‘Christine the Brave’,
Picture Post
(27.9.1952), p. 30.

60
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 84.

61
Wilkinson and Astley,
Gubbins and SOE,
p. 144.

62
Dodds-Parker,
Setting Europe Ablaze,
p. 168.

63
Douglas Dodds-Parker, interviewed by Jeff Bines (
c.
2000).

64
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Patrick O’Regan papers.

65
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 166.

66
TNA, HS16, code card prepared for Christine Granville.

67
Paddy Sproule, Martyn Cox, ‘Our Secret War’ interviews.

68
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Patrick O’Regan papers.

69
Dorothy Wakely, Massingham Signals Planning Officer, correspondence (April 2011).

70
Sweet-Escott,
Baker Street Irregular,
p. 202.

71
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Patrick O’Regan papers.

72
IWM, Sound Archive, 8880, Havard Gunn.

73
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, Patrick O’Regan papers.

74
Stafford, ‘The Tragedy of Christine Granville’.

75
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, quoted in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 165.

76
Andrzej Kowerski-Kennedy, quoted in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 159.

77
Ibid., p. 190.

78
Ibid., p. 159.

79
Howarth,
Undercover,
p. 73.

80
Ibid., p. 73.

81
Andrzej Kowerski-Kennedy, quoted in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 159.

82
Ibid., p. 160.

83
Buckmaster,
They Fought Alone,
p. 91.

84
Maurice Buckmaster, ‘All Communications Will be Cut’,
Chambers’s Journal
(1946–7, republished online by Steven Kippax, 2011), p. 23.

85
Cowburn,
No Cloak, No Dagger,
p. 67.

86
Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 160.

87
IWM, Sound Archive, 10447, Pearl Cornioley.

88
Douglas Dodds-Parker, Head of SOE Massingham, interviewed by Jeff Bines (
c.
2000).

89
IWM, Sound Archives, 9970, Reel 12, Sir Brooks Richards.

90
Ibid.

91
Foot,
SOE: An Outline History,
p. 75.

92
John Anstey quote in Masson,
Christine: SOE Agent,
p. 168.

93
Binney,
Women Who Lived for Danger,
pp. 9–10.

94
Helm,
A Life in Secrets,
p. 14.

10: A FRENCH OCCUPATION

1
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
pp. 9, 25.

2
Ibid., p. 35.

3
Ibid., p. 54.

4
TNA, HS9/258/5, ‘MI5 record sheet’ (13.7.1942).

5
Ibid., Francis Cammaerts ‘training report’ (8.12.1942); also ‘Paramilitary training’ (nd).

6
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
pp. 200–201.

7
TNA, HS9/258/5, Francis Cammaerts, ‘Paramilitary training’ (nd).

8
TNA, HS9/258, Cammaerts, ‘Historical Account of Mission’ (nd).

9
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 4.

10
IWM, Sound Archive, 11238, Francis Cammaerts; also Jeremy Clay, ‘The Pacifist Who Led a Secret Army’,
Leicester Mercury
(2005).

11
TNA, HS9/258, Cammaerts, ‘Historical Account of Mission’ (nd).

12
Foot,
SOE: An Outline History,
p. 10.

13
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 70.

14
Cowburn,
No Cloak, No Dagger,
introduction.

15
Marks,
Between Silk and Cyanide,
p. 9.

16
TNA, HS9/258, Cammaerts interview by Capt Howard (16–18.1.1944).

17
Escott,
Heroines of SOE F Section,
pp. 103–6.

18
Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 95.

19
TNA, HS9/258/5, ‘Interrogation of Roger’ (21.11.1943).

20
See Helm,
A Life in Secrets,
pp. 101, 312; Jenkins,
A Pacifist,
p. 226.

21
TNA, HS9/258/5, ‘Interrogation of Roger’ (21.11.1943).

22
Binney, Marcus,
The Women Who Lived for Danger,
p. 22.