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Abwehr (German military intelligence service), 82, 194

Accra, Ghana, 217

Adelphi University, 23

Aden, Yemen, 217

Africa, 21, 90, 227

Agra, India, 217

Algiers, Algeria, 24, 25–26, 89

Allies, 10, 12, 15, 17, 24, 27, 28, 59, 60, 88, 89, 114, 118, 141, 151, 156, 158, 180, 189, 190, 195, 196, 197, 199, 201, 202, 205, 207, 218, 219, 227

Alps, 15

American Export Lines, 44

American Friends Committee, 221

André (wireless operator), 154, 156, 160, 161

Angel, Daniel, 212

Anglo-Czech Bren machine guns, 74

Angoulême, France, 201

Antibes, France, 17

Anvil, Operation, 190

Arc de Triomphe, 181

Area C, 53–54, 55, 56–59, 60–61, 67, 73, 76, 78

Argenton-sur-Creuse, France, 115

Arisaig, Scotland, 73, 74–75, 76, 78

“Arisaig Schools,” 73, 74–75, 76, 78

Armée de l’Armistice, 24

Army, U.S., xv, 45, 46, 90, 196, 208, 219

Army Air Force, U.S., 100

Ascension Island, 217

Asia, 220

Atkins, Vera, 213

Australia, 60

Austria, xvi, 215

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS), 21–22

Axis powers, 9, 51

B-17 Flying Fortresses, 149, 151, 157

B-24 Liberators, 100, 102, 149, 228

Baker Street, xiv, xv, 32, 33, 34, 35, 38, 68, 74, 76, 82, 83, 92, 95, 104, 118, 119–20, 122, 131, 136, 141, 145, 148, 154, 156, 162, 163, 168, 171, 178, 184, 191, 197, 207, 217

Baker Street Irregulars, xiv

see also Special Operations Executive (SOE)

Balkans, 60

Baltimore, Maryland, 59

Barbie, Klaus, 119, 182, 189

Barcelona, Spain, 44

Bariaud, Jean, 128, 132

Basalt, Operation, 227

Bastille Day, 21, 225

air drop on, 157, 158, 159, 160, 191

BBC, xii, 120–21, 148

Beaulieu estate, Hampshire (SOE “finishing school), 75–76

Beaumont, France, 161

Bedfordshire, England, 37

Belarus, 114

Belem, 217

Beleyme prison, 18

Belfort, France, 41

Belgium, 17, 88, 114

Bellac, France, 156

Belvedere, 223, 224

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 51

Berg, Moe, 51

Berlin, Germany, 50, 59, 141, 217

Between Silk and Cyanide (Marks), 36

Bisset, Edward “Teddy,” 228

Bizerte, Tunisia, 24

Blancpain, 215

Bletchley Park, 9, 35

Blitz, 21

Bloch, Denise, 187–88, 213

Blond, France, 135

Blum, Leon, 139–40

Bodyguard, Operation, 88–89

Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 181

Bône, Algeria, 24–25

Bonnier de La Chapelle, Fernand, 25

Bordeaux, France, 144, 201

Boston, Massachusetts, 47

Boston Pops Orchestra, 42

Boston University, 220

Bourg-en-Bresse, France, 91

Bren guns, 136, 142, 166, 167, 172, 177

Britain, Battle of, 11

British Expeditionary Force, 17

British Guiana, 217

British Naval Intelligence, 50

Brittany, France, 15, 41, 190

Brive, France, 136, 192, 193

Brive-la-Gaillarde, France, 127

Broadcasts, 120–21, 122, 123, 136, 148, 154, 179

Buchenwald concentration camp, 184, 186, 187

Buckingham Palace, 213, 214

Buckmaster, Maurice, 69

Bunche, Ralph, 51

Burma, 217, 219, 229

Cadillac, Operation, 157, 159, 160

Caen, France, 157

Café de la République, 202, 204

Café Ripol (Rouen), 30

Café Tivoli (Tulle, France), 111

Caine, Michael, 37

Calcutta, India, 217, 220

California, xv, 217

Cambridge, Massachusetts, 41, 98, 220

Camp Croft, 46–48, 58

Camp David, 50

Camp X (SOE school for assassins), 50

Canada, 221

Carpetbagger, Operation, 100

Carsac, France, 115

Carve Her Name with Pride (film), 37, 212

Carve Her Name with Pride (Minney), 23, 37, 212

Casablanca, Morocco, 213

Catalina Island, California, 217

Catherine (Claude Malraux’s girlfriend), 33

Catoctin Mountain Park, 50–51

Cavalaire, France, 180

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), xv, xvi, 220

Cessna 182 aircraft, xi, xii, xiii, xvi

Ceylon, 11

Chadebec, France, 229

Châlons-sur-Marne, France, 183

Chalon-sur-Saône, France, 207

Chamberlain, Neville, 11, 17

Chambers, John Whiteclay, II, 51–52

Champ de Foire fairground, 124

Chapel of Sainte-Anne, 224

Charente department, France, 119, 153, 178

Chartres, France, 37

Châteauneuf-la-Forêt, France, 140, 168, 169, 178

Châteauroux, France, 38, 201–2, 229

Chengdu, China, 219–20

Child, Julia, 51

China, xv, 60, 217, 218, 219

Chinese Nationalists, 219

Churchill, Winston, 8, 11, 15, 17, 49, 60, 89

Citroën 2CV, 124

Civilian Conservation Corps, 53

Clergyman (SOE F Section circuit), 114

Cold War, xvi, 211, 215, 220

Colette, Joseph, 191–92

Colombo, Sri Lanka, 217

Columbia Law School, 49

Combade River, 3

Commandant Charles (alleged Resistance agent), 103, 104–5, 118, 119–20, 131, 134, 135–36

Commando Order, 90, 227

Communist Party, 15, 177

Communists, Communism, xv, 109, 118–19, 135, 139, 140, 141, 211

Compiègne concentration camp, 185–86

Confédération Générale du Travail, 139

Congo, xvi, 216

Conliège, France, 42–44, 207, 223–25

Corrèze department, France, 33, 96, 119, 127, 128, 153, 178, 192

Corsican Mafia, xvi, 215

Creuse department, France, 96, 119, 153, 178, 192

Croix de Guerre, 205, 206

Cross of Lorraine, 205

Cunard ships, 42

Czechoslovakia, 17, 114

Dachau concentration camp, 111, 115

d’Albis, Jean, 195

Dalton, Hugh, 11

Darlan, François, 25, 26

DC-3 planes, 191

D-Day invasion, xv, 11, 12, 14, 15, 33, 34, 60, 64, 76, 88, 89, 98, 103, 109, 114, 115, 120, 128, 135, 138, 147, 156, 179, 189, 190, 216, 229

Deerfield Academy, 42–43, 44

de Gaulle, Charles, 10, 15, 119, 135, 141, 205

de Guélis, Jacques, 25–26, 155, 228

Denver, Colorado, 220, 221

Depression, Great, 42

Desert Storm, Operation, 70

Déville-lès-Rouen, France, 29–30

Diekmann, Adolf, 123–24, 212

Dieppedalle, France, 30

“Digger” (SOE circuit), 127, 128

Dismore, Leonard Henry “Dizzy,” 184, 187

Domps, France, 148–52, 150

Donovan, William J. “Wild Bill,” xv, 49–52, 56, 219

Dordogne department, France, 96, 153

Douglas C-47 transport planes, 191, 217

Dover, England, 88

Dragoon, Operation, 190

Dufour, Jacques, 128–29, 132, 155, 213

Dunkirk, 17, 71

Dynamo, Operation (Miracle of Dunkirk), 17

East Africa, 60

East Anglia, 157

École Libre des Sciences Politiques (Sciences-Po), 16, 199

École Normale, 110

Edgar, James, 227–29

Edinburgh, Scotland, 89

81st Battalion of the Alpine Fortress Infantry, 91

Eisenhower, Dwight, 10, 98

El Alamein, Second Battle of, 22

El Fasher, Sudan, 217

Elizabeth II (queen of England), 216

England, 7, 12, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 28, 50, 98, 133, 157, 196, 227

Englandspiel, Das (Game Against England), 82, 83

English Channel, 14, 28, 37, 88, 98, 114, 157, 227

Enigma code, 9, 35

Eritrea, battle of, 21

Estavard (Spanish Republican refugee), 146–47

Eymoutiers, 140

Fairbairn, William E. “Dangerous Dan,” 57–58, 74

Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife, 57–58, 74, 224

FBI, 221

Fields, W. C., 224

Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), 120, 148

Fifty Fathoms watch, 215

Figeac, France, 115

Film Socialisme (film), 216

Finland, 60

First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 23, 93

1st Battalion of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Regiment, 123

Fleming, Ian, 50

“Fly, The” (Langelaan), 17–18

Focke-Wulf 190 fighters, 30

Fonda, Jane, 221

Foot, M. R. D., xiv, 11, 12, 75

Footman (SOE F Section circuit), 114

Forbidden Zone (Zone Interdite), 28, 29, 37

Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur (French Forces of the Interior; FFI), 135, 141, 195, 196, 197, 204, 205, 207

Ford motor company, 69

“Forgotten Campaign,” 180

Fort Benning, 48

Fort Devens, 47

France, xi, xiii–xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14–15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 23, 24, 33, 41, 43, 56, 60, 61, 69, 88, 91, 93, 99, 104, 111, 113, 114–16, 117, 121, 134, 139, 141, 146, 147, 150, 151, 154, 156, 157, 159, 164, 177, 182, 186, 189, 190, 191, 196, 199, 201, 211, 212, 215, 216, 227, 228, 229

Mediterranean coast of, 180, 190, 201

France, Vichy, 17, 18, 24, 25, 26, 109, 110, 123, 137, 140, 141, 190, 195, 199

France (ocean liner), 42

Franco (Spanish Republican refugee), 146–47

Franco-Prussian War, 16

Francs-Tireurs et Partisans (Partisan Sharpshooters; FTP fighters), 109–11, 116, 118

Franklin House, 63–64, 68, 217

Frascati’s (London restaurant), 77

Fraser, Edgar, 191, 200

Fraser-Smith, Charles, 70

Free French, 10, 15, 21, 24, 25, 26, 45, 184, 205

French army, 17, 41, 119, 140, 154

French Communist Party (PCF), 118, 139–40, 194, 211

FTP fighters of, 109–11, 116, 118

French Forces of the Interior (Forces Françaises de l’Intérieur; FFI), 135, 141, 195, 196, 197, 204, 205, 207

French Foreign Legion, 21

French Mafia, 215

French North Africa, 24

French Resistance, xi, 6, 13, 29, 103, 109–11, 114, 115–16, 119, 121, 123, 127, 128, 132, 133, 139, 147, 150, 151, 152, 157, 177, 181, 184, 189, 199, 205, 211, 229

FFI troops of, 135, 141, 195, 196, 204, 205, 207

Fresnes Prison, 133, 181–82, 185

Frodsham, England, 22

Frythe mansion, 70

Funk-Horchdienst (listening service), Nazi, 5

Game Against England (Das Englandspiel), 82, 83

Gammon bombs, 143, 147, 164

Gare de l’Est railroad station, 182

Gargan, Mont, 229

Gaullists, 10, 25, 135

Geneva Convention, 90

George VI, King of England, 213, 214

George Cross, 187, 213, 214

Georgia, 48

“German-Allied” conscripts, 179–80

German Army Group B, 90

German High Command, 24, 88

German troops, 6, 7, 12, 13–16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 27, 31, 43, 90, 99, 102, 109, 110–11, 123, 124, 132, 135, 137, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 153, 156, 157, 160, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172–74, 176–77, 178, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193, 194–95, 196, 197, 199, 201–2, 203–4

Germany, 139

Germany, Nazi, xv, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 19, 25, 27, 28, 33, 38, 49, 60, 71–72, 82, 83, 84, 88, 99, 109, 111, 112, 113–16, 121, 126, 128, 134, 139, 140, 141, 145, 147, 158, 161, 178, 180, 182, 183, 184, 187, 190, 194, 195, 201, 204, 207, 212, 217, 223

Gestapo, 6, 7, 28, 29, 32, 33, 38, 90, 123, 130, 132, 133, 182, 184, 185, 194, 197, 198, 200

Gibraltar, 24, 89

Gilbert Islands, 59

Giskes, Hermann, 82, 83

Gleininger, Walter, 194, 195, 196–97

Godard, Jean-Luc, 216

Goldberg, Arthur, 51

Gramont, France, 135

Grandmont, France, 195

Great American China-Aiding Air Force, 218

Great Britain, 9, 10, 11, 17, 22, 24, 25, 27, 35, 49, 58, 60, 62, 70, 71, 84, 98, 167, 183

Great Depression, 42

Greenock, Scotland, 63

Groslejac, France, 115

Guardia Civil, 44

Guiet, Carol, xii, xvii, 223, 224, 225

Guiet, Claudia, 220

Guiet, Dan, 220

Guiet, Gertrude Alice Flaherty, xii, 220, 221

Guiet, Jean Claude, x, xi–xii, xiii–xiv, xv, xvi–xvii, 3–5, 4, 6–7, 8–9, 10–11, 13, 14, 16, 41, 42–45, 46–48, 52, 53–54, 55, 56–59, 60–61, 62–69, 72–75, 76, 77–78, 79, 81–82, 84–87, 89–94, 95, 96–101, 102–5, 109, 117–18, 119, 120–22, 123, 125, 126, 131–32, 134, 136–38, 141, 142–43, 146–48, 149, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 160, 161–62, 163–65, 166–68, 169–75, 176–80, 191–93, 194–95, 196, 198, 199, 200, 201–3, 205, 206, 207–8, 210, 216–17, 218, 219–21, 223, 224–25, 227, 228, 229

Guiet, Jeanne Seigneur, 41, 42, 43–44, 45, 54, 56, 220

Guiet, Pierre, 41, 42, 43–44, 45, 54, 55, 56, 62, 64, 68, 91, 207, 220

Guiet, René, 41–42, 43–44, 45, 220

Guiet family, 41, 43

Guingouin, Georges, 139–41, 145, 148, 153, 177, 178, 194, 195, 196, 199, 205, 206, 211

Hampshire, England, 19

Harrington base, Northamptonshire, 228

Harvard University, xvi, 41, 220

Dunster Hall dining hall at, 45

Hassells Hall, 95, 98, 100

Haute-Loire department, France, 43

Haute-Vienne department, France, 96, 119, 124, 139, 140, 153, 178, 191, 192

Henley-on-Thames, England, 8, 228

Herfordshire, England, 33

Hermitage, 224

Heydrich, Reinhard, 12

Himmler, Heinrich, 59–60, 113, 114

Hitchcock, Alfred, 22

Hitler, Adolf, 11, 12, 17, 41, 82, 88, 90, 113, 114, 116, 140, 189, 227

Holland, Sergeant, 18–19

Honeywell, 220

Hooghly River, 220

Hsian, China, 217, 219

Hudson bombers, 32

“Hunger Plan,” 113

“I’ll Be Around” (song), 95

Illinois, University of, 41

Imperial War Museum, 23

India, 60

Indre department, France, 119

International Building, 49

International Military Tribunal, 113

Iron Cross, 114, 116, 208

Israel, 215

Italy, 59

Japan, xv, 45, 59, 213, 217, 218, 219

Jepson, Selwyn, 22–23

Joint Chiefs of Staff, 50

Ju 88 fighter-bombers, 24–25

Jump School (Fort Benning, Georgia), 48

Jura region, France, xi, xii, 42, 207, 223

Kachin tribesmen, xv

Kämpfe, Helmut, 116, 117, 123, 124, 127, 128

Karachi, Pakistan, 217

Katrinette (Jean Claude’s aunt), 104

Keats, John, 35

Kharkov, battle of, 114

Kharkov, Ukraine, 111

Kiev, Ukraine, 111

Knight’s Cross, 116

Königsberg slave-labor camp, 187

Korea, 60

Kowatsch, Aurel, 111, 113, 130, 133, 212

Kriesgsmarine, 27, 28

Kursk, battle of, 114

La Croisille-sur-Briance, France, 128, 132, 161, 191, 192

Lahoysk, Belarus, 114

Lammerding, Heinz, 114, 115, 211

Lancaster bombers, 98–100, 149

Langelaan, George, 17–18, 22

Lannon, Jean, 228

Laos, xv, 213

Larson, William F., 191, 193

Lauwers, H. M. G., 82

Le Havre, France, 28, 29, 30, 38, 132

Léopoldville, Congo, 216

Leygue, Jean, 91

Liewer, Maryse, 17, 18

Liewer, Philippe, 16–19, 21, 28, 29, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 69, 92–93, 95, 96, 97–101, 103–5, 118, 119–20, 121, 122, 127–28, 131, 132–33, 135–36, 141, 142, 144, 145, 148, 152, 153, 154, 156, 157, 161, 162, 163, 166, 168, 177–79, 191, 192–93, 194, 195–97, 198, 199, 201–3, 205, 206, 207–8, 213, 217, 228, 229

“Life That I Have, The” (Marks), 212

Limoges, France, 7, 14, 115, 116, 123, 124, 130, 132, 133, 141, 144, 146, 153, 191, 192, 193, 194–97, 198, 199–200, 201, 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 211, 228, 229

Limoges Centre, 197

Limoges-Montauban road, 195

Limousin region, France, xvii, 15, 117, 118, 119, 134–36, 139, 147, 190

Linards, France, 161

Lisbon, Portugal, 18, 44

Liverpool, England, 21

Loch Morar, Scotland, 73

Loire River, 190

Loire Valley, France, 157

London, England, xiv, 6, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, 24, 35, 38, 63, 68, 69, 77, 79, 87, 88, 89, 91–93, 119, 153, 187

Franklin House in, 63–64, 68, 217

Lons-le-Saunier, France, 91

Lons-le-Saunier airport, xi

Lot region, France, 115

Low Countries, 17

Luftwaffe, 21, 30

Lyon, France, 197

Lysander aircraft, 29, 37, 38, 99, 191

McKenna, Virginia, 37

Mackenzie, Ian, 228

Madrid, Spain, 44

Maginot Line, 9

Magnac-Laval, France, 139

Maloubier, Bob, xi–xii, xiii–xiv, xv–xvii, 23–26, 28, 29–32, 33, 34, 92–93, 95, 97–101, 103–4, 118, 125, 133, 136, 142, 143–44, 154, 155, 157, 168, 178, 179–80, 191, 194–95, 199, 200, 201–2, 203–4, 205, 206, 207–8, 210, 213, 215–17, 219

Maloubier, Catherine, xi, xiii, xvi

Maloubier, Jacques, 24, 125

Malraux, André, 29, 189

Malraux, Claude, 29, 32–33, 38

Malta, 24

Mandeure, France, 42

Man Running (Jepson), 22

Marines, U.S., 59

Marks, Elena Gaussen, 212

Marks, Leo, 34–37, 38, 78, 82–83, 212

Marlin machine guns, 128, 203

Marseille, France, 91, 190

Martin B-26 Marauders, 202, 203

Martin Marietta, 220

Maskelyne, Jasper, 95

Massachusetts, xvi, 46, 217

Massif Central, 134

Mauzac prison camp, 18

Mayer, Roger, 38

M’ba, Léon, 216

Mellon, Paul, 51

Melpar, 220

Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighters, 157

Metro Passy (Paris), 185

Metz, France, 184

MG-42 machine guns, 124

MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service), 50

Middle East, 60

Milice (French paramilitary force), 123–24, 142, 177, 179–80, 194, 195

Millevaches, Plateau de, 161

Mills Brothers, 95

Minnesota, 8, 221

Minney, R. J., 23, 37, 212

Miracle of Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo), 17

Molière, 35

Montauban, France, 114

Montevideo, Uruguay, 215

Mont Gargan, 157

Mont Gargan, battle of, 166–78, 190

Montgomery, Bernard, 89

Montintin, Suzanne, 129

Montintin family, 129, 132

Montpezat-de-Quercy, France, 114

Morar, Scotland, 69, 72–73

Morse code, 35, 59, 60–61, 64–65, 75, 78, 81, 105, 120–22, 136, 137, 148, 149, 154

Moscow, battle of, 114

Mosquito warplanes, 190

Mossad, xvi, 215

Moulin, Jean, 119, 189

Moulins-sur-Allier, France, 140, 202, 203, 204

Munich Conference, 11, 16–17

Murder, Inc., 51

Naga tribesmen, xv

Narvik, battle of, 17, 21

National Archives, 51

National Park Service, 50

Navy SEALs, 24

Neptune, Operation, 88

Netherlands, 82–83, 88

Neue Bremm (transshipment depot for prisoners), 184

Neuengamme concentration camp, 115

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 23, 25

Nevy-sur-Seille, France, xii

New Guinea, 59

Newman, Isidore, 29, 33, 38

New York Harbor, 62

Nobel, Alfred, 71

Normandie (ocean liner), 42, 43

Normandy, France, xv, 12, 14, 28, 33, 88, 115, 147, 156–57, 180, 189, 190, 229

see also D-Day invasion

Norris, Mrs., 68, 93

North Adams, Massachusetts, 220

North Africa, 22, 24, 216

Northampton, Massachusetts, xv, 42, 54, 56

North Carolina, 47

Norway, 12, 17, 89

Number 64 Baker Street, London, see Baker Street

Nuremberg trials, 90, 113

Office of Strategic Services (OSS), xv, 48, 50–52, 53, 56, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 77, 100, 179, 191, 217, 219, 220

Area C of, 53–54, 55, 56–59, 60–61, 67, 73, 76, 78

Personnel Procurement Branch of, 51–52

Team Ibex of, 219

Ohio State University, 220

French Department at, xvi

“One Man’s Lovely Little War” (Guiet), 10–11

Operational Groups (OGs), 179, 191, 192, 193, 195

Oradour-sur-Glane, France, massacre in, 124–25, 126, 127, 142, 168, 211, 212

Oradour-sur-Vayres, France, 124

Orleans, France, 37

OSS Detachment 101, 217, 219

OSS Society, 51

Overlord, Operation, 12, 190

P-47 Thunderbolts, 151, 157, 190

P-51 Mustang fighters, 151, 157, 190

Pacific theater, xv, 217, 219–20

Panthéon (Paris), 189

Panzerfaust weapon, 156

Panzer tanks, 114

Paris, France, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, 5, 10, 16, 23, 34, 37, 38, 42, 125, 135, 144, 157, 181, 189, 190, 207, 208, 213, 214, 216

84 avenue Foch in, 133, 181, 182

Parliament, 140

Pas-de-Calais department, France, 88

Passport Control Office, 49

Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 45, 48, 50

Périgueux, France, 18

Phillips Exeter Academy, 43

PIAT guns, 142

Pierre-Buffière, France, 144, 156

Poitiers, France, 201

Poland, 59

Polish troops, 17

Popular Front government, 139–40

Portugal, 44, 207

Posen Conference, 59–60

Pressac, France, 135

Primacord explosives, 164

Prince William Forest Park, Virginia, 50–51

Prix d’Armes Ceremony, 229

Public Health Service, 50

Purple Gang, 51

Queen Mary, 217

Rabelais, François, 35

Racine, Jean, 35

RAF Harrington airfield, 100

RAF Tempsford air base, 37, 38, 95–96, 97–99, 100

Hassells Hall on, 95, 98, 100

Ravensbrück concentration camp, 184, 187–88, 213

Red Army, 113

Red Cross, 63, 182, 186

Rhône Valley, 190

Rhubana Lodge estate (“Arisaig School”), 73–75

Ringway air base, Manchester, 33, 82, 84–87

Rivier, Col., 229

Rochefort, France, 144

Rolfe, Lilian, 188, 213

Romanians, 177

Rommel, Erwin, 22

Roosevelt, Franklin, 48–50, 60

Rouen, France, 6, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 34, 37, 132

Rouffanche, Marguerite, 125

Rouffillac, France, 115

Routis, André, 25

Royal Air Force (RAF), 33, 82, 85, 97, 183

Royal Navy, 17, 27

Russia, xvi, 28, 84, 111, 141, 177

see also Soviet Union

Saarbrücken, Germany, 182, 184, 186

Saint-Briac-sur-Mer, France, 41, 42

Saint-Germain, France, 144

Saint-Gilles-les-Forêts, France, 140

Saint-Junien, France, 192

Saint-Léonard, France, 156

Saint-Lô, France, 157

Saint-Paul internment camp, 197

Saint-Raphael, France, 180

Saint-Tropez, France, 180

Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche, France, 162

Saipan, xii

Salesman, Operation (first), 16, 27–33, 34, 37, 38, 41, 132

Salesman II, Operation, 16, 69, 93, 96, 98–101, 104–5, 117, 118, 119–22, 134, 135–38, 141–45, 146, 148–52, 150, 153–54, 156, 159, 161–62, 163, 178, 180, 190–91, 192–93, 194–96, 199, 200, 201, 202, 207, 213, 227, 229

see also specific team members

Salon-la-Tour, France, 128, 144, 145, 192, 193, 200, 213

Sanssac l’Église, France, 43

Saône River, 224

Sark island, 227

Schlesinger, Arthur, Jr., 51

Schmeisser machine pistols, 123, 164

Scofield, Paul, 37

Scottish Highlands, 64, 73, 74–75

Sea Lion, Operation, 11

Seaman, Mark, 9

2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, 110–11, 113, 114–16, 118, 123, 127, 128–30, 142, 146, 161, 177, 189–90, 194, 211

3rd Battalion of, 116

Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), 50

Seille River, xiii

Seine river, 27, 28, 30

Selective Service, 221

Senegal, battle of, 21

Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage (External Documentation and Counter-Espionage Service; SDECE), xvi, xvii, 215

Service du Travail Obligatoire (Compulsory Work Service), 14, 139

Shakespeare, William, 35

Shanghai Municipal Police, 57

Sherman tanks, 156

Shetland Islands, 11

Sicherheitsdienst (intelligence service of SS), 133

Sicily, 59

Siegfried Line, 9

Silver Star, 205

Simmons, Mary, 221

Simmons, Pete, 221

Simon, Andre, 228

Sledgehammer, Operation, 190

Smatchet (“smashing hatchet”), 57

Smith College, xv

French Department at, 42

Socialists, 135

SOE/SO (joint command), 60, 61

Soho, London, 92

Solomon Islands, 59

Sorbonne, 42

South Pacific, 220

Soviet Union, 60, 89, 113–14, 215

see also Russia

Spain, 133, 146

Spanish Civil War, 119, 146

Spanish Republicans, 146, 164

Spartanburg, South Carolina, 46, 47

Special Operations Executive (SOE), xiv–xv, 4, 8–13, 15, 16, 18, 26, 28, 29, 32–33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 50, 51, 60, 70–72, 73, 75, 76, 78, 82, 84, 87, 89, 90, 91, 93, 109, 115, 119, 120, 121, 122, 127, 133, 154, 155, 168, 179, 181, 182, 184, 187, 188, 213, 216, 217, 228

Force 136 of, 213

F Section of, 14, 18, 22–23, 33, 34, 69, 114, 182, 213, 227; see also Salesman, Operation; Salesman II, Operation

N Section of, 82–83

Student Assessment Board of, 64–68

Spitfire warplanes, 190

Square Spike Sticker, 74

SS (Schutzstaffel), 12, 14, 110–11, 113, 114–16, 123, 124–25, 128–30, 133, 161, 177, 181, 191, 194, 197, 212

Sicherheitsdienst intelligence service of, 133

Stage Fright (film), 22

Stalin, Josef, 60, 89, 140

Sten guns, 25, 70–71, 74, 109, 128, 129, 130, 133, 136, 143, 147, 167, 172

Stephenson, William, 49–50

Stimson, Henry, 48

Stuart Turner model engine company, 8

Sudetenland, 16

Sumatra, 229

Supreme Court, U.S., 51

Sussac, France, 3, 103–5, 117, 118, 119, 120, 128, 131, 132, 138, 140, 142, 155, 157, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 177, 228, 229

Switzerland, 83

Sykes, Eric A., 58

Syria, battle of, 21

Szabo, Etienne, 21–22, 23

Szabo, Tania Damaris Désirée, 22, 38, 213, 214

Szabo, Violette Bushell, xi, xii, xvii, 7, 19–23, 20, 33, 34, 36–38, 93, 95, 97–101, 103–4, 117–18, 120, 127, 128–30, 132, 134, 136, 144, 181–82, 183, 184, 187–88, 193, 199, 200, 212, 213, 214

Tehran, Iran, 60

Tennessee, 47

Thame Park estate, Oxfordshire (SOE wireless school), 77–78, 81–82

3rd Air Division, 151

Third Reich, see Germany, Nazi

Tiger tanks, 114

Tilleul (SOE circuit), 155, 227, 228–29

Torch, Operation, 24, 25

Torgau, Germany, 187

Toulon, France, 190

Toulouse, France, 91, 114, 144, 192, 197

Tours, France, 192

Treasury, U.S., 49

Tulle, France, 109–11, 115, 136

massacre at, 110–11, 112, 130, 142, 168, 194, 211, 212

Tunisia, 24

Turing, Alan, 35

Type 3 Mark II radio, 78

Unione Corse, 215

Unitarian Church, 221

United Nations, 60

United States, 196, 218, 220

Urbana, Illinois, 41

U.S. Army Airborne School, 48

Ussel, France, 141

Uzerche, France, 136

V-2 rockets, 59

Vemork, Norway, 12

Vercors Massif, 179

Vézère river, 109

Victoria Cross, 187

Vierzon, France, 192

Vietnam, xv

Vietnam War, 221

Villechenoux, France, 192

Violette Szabo Museum, 210

von Braun, Wernher, 59

Waffen SS, 14, 110–11, 113, 114–16

Waller, Douglas, 49, 50

Wannsee Conference, 12

War Department, U.S., 49

Washington, D.C., 48

Wehrmacht conscripts, 142–43

Weimar, Germany, 186

Welrod pistols, 11, 70, 133

West Germany, 211

Westphalia, Germany, 113

Weygand, Maxime, 154

Wheelwright (SOE F Section circuit), 114

Whitehall, London, 21, 22

Whitley bombers, 85–86

Willard Hotel (Washington, D.C.), 48, 53

Winterfold estate, Surrey, 64–68

Women’s Army Corps, 51

Women’s Land Army (WLA), 19

World War I, 41, 49, 139

World War II, 5, 9, 34, 72

Pacific theater in, xv, 217, 219–20

Wormelow, England, xi

Yeo-Thomas, Forest “Tommy,” 182, 183, 184–87

Yugoslavia, 35, 60

Zebra, Operation, 148–52, 150, 153

Zone Interdite (Forbidden Zone), 28, 29, 37

Zone Libre, 17

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