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Abingdon parliamentary constituency, 158, 159, 162, 167, 195, 222; AN enters parliament as MP for, 146–9, 151, 156; Thatcher visits, 186–8, 190, 210; Wallingford meeting (January 1975), 219

Abwehr (German military intelligence), 100, 117, 118, 122

Aga Khan, Prince Sadruddin, 173

Aitken, Jonathan, 5, 190, 224

Aldington, Toby, 203, 208

Alington, Dr Cyril, 11

American Air Force, 104, 114, 124, 125, 127

Amin, Idi, 172

Anderson, Betty Harvie, 217

Andrus, Burton C., 140, 141

Arab–Israel war (1973), 193

Ash, William, 59

Ashbury, Old Vicarage, 162, 166–7, 184–5, 186–8, 190, 210, 214, 236–7

Atkins, Humphrey, 190, 204, 205, 207, 209, 226, 264

Atomic Energy Authority, 158

Bachenheimer, Ted, 132–3

Baker, Kenneth, 199, 208

Baker, Peter, 131–3, 146

Balcombe Street siege (December 1975), 236

Baldwin, Stanley, 17

Barber, Anthony, 191, 210

Baron, Millicent, 107

Barr, R. J., 36–7

Barton, Teddy, 77

BBC, 178, 221–2, 243

Beach, Thomas Miller (Henri Le Caron), 13–14

Beaconsfield, 11, 13, 16, 109

Beckett, Veronica, 154, 182, 189, 219

Beerbohm, Max, 23

Belgium, 56, 110, 114, 126, 130; Nazi invasion of (May 1940), 30–1; escape networks in, 99, 111–12, 113, 114–15, 117, 118, 119–20, 140, 155–6; underground/resistance, 105, 111–12, 114–15, 117–18, 126; Security Service in London, 116, 118

Berryman, George, 252–3

Bevan, Aneurin, 147

Beveridge Report, 142, 150

Biddle, Francis, 139–40, 144

Biggs-Davison, John, 232, 233

Birkett, Norman, 153

Birmingham pub bombings (1974), 228

birth control, 174

Bishop’s House, Beaconsfield, 11, 13, 16

Blackshirts, 26

Blanchain, Francis, 101

Blommaert, Jean de, 126, 128, 129

Boulogne, 29–30, 33, 34, 36, 40

Boussa, Lucien, 126, 128

Bower, Claude, 51

Boyd-Carpenter, John, 159

Boyle, Andrew, 26

Braine, Bernard, 217

British Army: Territorials, 26–8, 104–5, 152, 157, 158, 179–80; defence of Channel ports (May 1940), 29, 31–49, 50–1; British Expeditionary Force (BEF), 29–30, 31–49, 50–1; falls back to Dunkirk, 46; and sacrifice of Calais garrison, 46–9, 50–1

British Army units: Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 26–7; 22nd (Essex) Anti-Aircraft Battalion, 27; Royal Engineers, 27, 29; Royal Artillery, 29, 30, 31–3, 152, 179; 2nd Searchlight Battery (2nd SL), 30, 31–3, 35, 36–9; 20th Guards Brigade, 33, 40; 30th Infantry Brigade, 33; Queen Victoria’s Rifles (QVR), 33, 40–1, 49, 51; 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (3RTR), 33–4, 36; 1st Battalion, Rifle Brigade (Green Jackets), 34, 39–40, 41, 49; 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps (60th Rifles), 34, 41, 42–5, 51; Coldstream Guards, 54–5; 51st (Highland) Division, 58, 97; Special Air Service (SAS), 127–8, 135; 1st Airborne Division, 130–6

British Establishment, 10–11, 23–4

British Leyland, 214

British War Crimes Executive, 137, 139

Brown, Leslie, 149

Browning, William ‘Boot’, 256

Brussels, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 117, 118, 119–20, 130

Bunting, Ronnie, 239–41, 251–2, 253–4, 258–9

Bunting, Suzanne, 240, 258

Calais, 29, 30, 31–49, 50–1, 95, 154

Callaghan, James, 1, 244, 249

Campbell, John, 168

capital punishment, 161, 172, 228, 233

Carr, Robert, 200

Carrington, Peter, 154, 263–4

Cartwright, Henry Antrobus, 90, 91, 92–3, 104, 122; Within Four Walls (1930), 14, 90

Carvel, Bob, 224–5

Caskie, Reverend Donald, 97

Castle, Barbara, 147

Castle, Ted, 147

Castlereagh (Tory dining club), 27–8

Cavell, Edith, 110

Chartres Cathedral, 128–9

Cheshire, Leonard, 23, 24, 26

Chilcot, John, 246

Chillington Hall, Staffordshire, 6, 108, 129, 163, 165, 166

Churchill, Lord Randolph, 23

Churchill, Winston, 47, 50, 137, 147, 150, 156

Churchill, Winston (grandson of war leader), 200

Clarke Chapman (engineering firm), 173, 174, 196, 214, 248

Cold War, 128, 147, 152, 156–7, 175–6

Colditz, 1, 4, 52, 53, 55, 57; Pat Reid at, 57, 59, 74, 75, 77–8, 81, 89, 155, 183; AN at, 70, 71–82, 137; French prisoners at, 71, 80, 95; escape attempts from, 71–2, 73–5, 77–87, 88–9; camp theatre, 74, 77–8, 80–1; camp routine, 76–7; AN escapes from, 78–87, 88–9, 137, 154–5, 183–4; successful escapes before AN, 80

Colditz (BBC TV series), 155, 183–4

Cole, Harold, 99–101, 104, 112–13, 119

Connor, William (’Cassandra’), 147

Cooke, Alistair, 227, 232, 235, 244

Cooke, Robert (‘Robin’), 223

Cooper, Gunner, 31–2

Costello, Seamus, 239, 240, 241, 256

Crace, John Foster, 15, 21, 71

Crawley, Aidan, 59–60, 150

Creasey, Tim, 236

Creswell, Michael (’Monday’), 101–2, 110, 111, 113–14, 155

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 60

Crockatt, Norman, 91–2, 105, 109, 120, 123, 136

Daly, Miriam, 242

Dalyell, Tam, 221

Dansey, Claude (’Z’), 98–9, 100, 109, 110, 112–13, 120

Darling, Donald (’Sunday’), 99–100, 101, 102, 109, 110, 112–13, 116, 127

Day, Robin, 181

Dean, Arthur, 115

Deedes, Bill, 221

Delloye, Captain, 116

Dempsey, Sir Miles, 132

Desoubrie, Jacques, 129–30

Dickens, PC Peter, 246

Dobbs, Michael, 244

Dobie, David, 132, 135

Doenitz, Karl, 141

Donkers, H., 89

Dothie, W.H., 52

Douglas-Home, Alec, 181, 207, 212–13, 247

Douglas-Pennant, Mrs, 219

du Cann, Edward, 186, 197, 200–1, 203–5, 207, 208, 210–13, 214, 215, 216–17

Duffy, Peter, 251

Duncan, Michael, 93

Dunkirk, 31, 36, 39, 40, 46; evacuation from (Dynamo), 46, 54–5

Ebbens, Fekko, 132, 133

economy, British: depression of early 1930s, 13, 17; impact of science and technology, 148–9; and EEC entry, 174; in 1970s, 178–9, 180–1, 190, 191, 192–5, 200, 214, 244; and ‘monetarist’ theory, 206, 220, 228

Eden, Anthony, 27–8, 46–7, 50, 137, 159–60

Eisenhower, Dwight, 156

Eliot, T.S., East Coker, 265

Ellis, Walter, 240

entomology, 10–11, 17, 26

Erlach, Albert d’, 90

Eton College, 9–10, 11–17, 20–2, 163, 164–5

European Economic Community (EEC), 161, 174, 208–9

Evans, Alfred ‘Johnny’, 77, 93

Fairley, Professor Gordon Hamilton, 131

Falaise Gap, 127

Finsberg, Geoffrey, 211

First World War, 9–10, 14

Fisher, Nigel, 200, 204–5, 211, 214, 215

Fitt, Gerry, 70, 239

Flynn, Harry, 238, 240, 241, 256–8, 260–1

Forbes, Norman, 61, 62–9, 70, 79

Frank, Hans, 66, 141

Frank, Wolfe, 140

Fraser, Antonia, 131, 197

Fraser, Hugh, 25, 131, 133, 135, 136, 154, 197, 218–19

French Army, 30–1, 32, 33, 40, 43, 46, 51–2, 95

French Resistance, 55–6, 95–6, 105

Frick, Wilhelm, 141

Friedman, Milton, 228

Funk, Walther, 141

Gaitskell, Hugh, 160

Gandhi, Mohandas, 12–13

Gardiner, George, 199

Gardiner Committee report (1975), 230*

Garrow, Ian, 97–8, 99

Gatwick airport project, 161

Gestapo, 68–70, 104, 114, 117, 120, 129–30, 140

Gibson, Patrick, 21

Giffard, John (nephew), 165–6

Giffard, Thomas, 108

Gilmour, Ian, 190, 200

Glyn, Sir Ralph, 146

Goering, Hermann, 46, 113, 141, 142–3

Goïcoechea, Florentino, 113, 115, 117

Goldney, R. M., 35, 37–9

Goldsmith, Jimmy, 165

Goodhart, Philip, 197

Gormley, Joe, 192

Gormley, John, 256

Gort, Lord, 46

Gow, Ian, 229, 232

Gowrie, Grey, 227

Great Britain 75 (band of patriots), 177

Greef, Elvire de (‘Tante Go’), 115, 117

Greef, Fernand de, 115

Greef, Jeanine de, 114–15

Greindl, Baron Jean, 114, 118, 119

Greville-Bell, Anthony, 128

Griffith Jr, Welborn, 129

Grimond, Joseph, 12, 18, 22

Groome, Tom, 121

Guderian, Heinz, 30–1, 34, 36, 39, 40, 46

Guérisse, Albert-Marie (‘Pat O’Leary’), 97–8, 100–1, 116, 118, 119, 153

Gurden, Harold, 177

Hackett, John, 132, 136

Hall, Joan, 223

Harcourt, Pierre d’, 53

Harris, Alwen, 183–4

Harris, Arthur, 114, 124

Harwell, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, 148, 157, 158, 187, 210

Hasler, Herbert ‘Blondie’, 121–2

Hayek, Friedrich von, 228

Hayward, Dr Graham, 169

Healey, Denis, 220

Heath, Edward, 25*; as Chief Whip, 160; campaign to enter EEC, 161, 174; AN’s reputation as enemy of, 168–9, 179, 194, 207–9; story of falling-out with AN (1959), 168–9, 208, 209; 1970–74 government, 172, 174, 176, 178–9, 180–2, 190–6; visit to Nazi Germany (1937), 179; personality of, 181–2, 190, 192, 198–9, 207, 208, 216; social background of, 192; Three-Day Week, 194–5; and February 1974 election, 195–6; campaign to remove as leader, 197–9, 200–1, 202–14, 215–17; attends party at Westminster Gardens (July 1974), 199–200; and October 1974 election, 201, 202; meeting with AN (December 1974), 208–9; leadership contest (1975), 217–25; resigns as party leader, 225

Hess, Rudolf, 83, 130, 141, 172

Hildyard, Sir David ‘Toby’, 107

Hinton Waldrist, Oxfordshire, 2, 7, 237, 263, 265

Hitler, Adolf, 18, 20, 25, 27, 31, 46, 122, 142, 179

Hoare, Sir Samuel, 101

Hodges, Mary (step-mother), 106

Holland, 83–4, 89, 110, 112, 114, 118, 122, 130, 136; Royal Dutch East Indies Army, 79, 84; Dutch Resistance, 130, 132; murder of Sir Richard Sykes (March 1979), 247

Holland, Jack, 253–4

Horden, Peter, 205

Houdini, Harry, 92

Howe, Geoffrey, 199, 215, 216, 225

Hulme, Hannah, 149

Hutton, Christopher Clayton, 92, 93

Hyde-Thomson, John, 89

immigration, 172

Imperial College, London, 174

Industrial Relations Act (1971), 180

industrial unrest (1970s), 1, 176–7, 178–9, 180–1, 192–5, 244

intelligence services see secret and military intelligence

Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), 237–42, 249–61

Irish Republican Socialist Party (IRSP), 238, 239, 240, 242, 250, 251

Irish Republicanism: Fenian movement in North America, 13–14; bomb attack on Hugh Fraser, 131; AN’s hard line on IRA, 156, 161, 228, 230–3, 234–5, 236, 242–3, 260; hatred of AN, 161, 233, 236, 242–3, 247–8; mainland campaign (from 1973), 228; London talks with Whitelaw (1972), 230; splits within during Troubles, 238–9; INLA Maze prison escape (3–4 May 1976), 8, 237–8, 240, 242, 256; INLA Brinks-Mat robbery (June 1977), 241–2; INLA imports arms from Beirut, 242, 254; as on defensive at end of 1978, 243–4; assassination of AN, 1–4, 7–8, 246–7, 249–61, 265; killing of British public figures, 4, 247; 1981 hunger strikes, 256

Ironside, Edmund, 47

Isaacs, Michael, 21, 22, 23, 24–5, 27, 107

Israel, 159, 160, 193

Jackson, Robert H., 142

James, David, 223–4

John Thompson (engineering firm), 173–4, 175

Johnson, Albert, 115, 118

Jongh, Andrée de (‘Dédée’), 96, 111–16, 117–18, 119, 153, 188; refuses radio operator, 119; arrested and sent to Ravensbrück and Mauthausen, 117–18; post-war life of, 112, 155

Jongh, Frédéric de, 111, 114, 117

Joseph, Keith, 196, 200, 203, 206, 210, 211, 220, 222, 226

Kaltenbrunner, Ernst, 141

Keitel, Wilhelm, 141–2

Keller, Ronald, 36

Kelly, Dr Stephen, 233

Kennedy, Ludovic, 178

Keyser Ullmann (bank), 204, 211, 212, 214

Khrushchev, Nikita, 156

King, Tom, 5, 164, 258, 264

Kragt, Dick, 136

Krüger, Walter, 36, 37

Krupp works, Essen, 138–9

Lally, Phelim, 242

Lambton affair (1973), 181

Langley, Jimmy, 101, 105, 106, 109, 110–11, 116, 124; action during war (1940), 54–5; escape from France, 55, 104; on French attitudes to escapees, 95, 96; and AN’s recruitment to M19, 104; transferred to MI9 headquarters, 123; commands IS9 (Western European Area), 127, 133

Larive, Hans, 79–80

Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci film), 189

Lathbury, Gerald, 132, 135

Lawrence, Geoffrey, 139

Lawton, Frederick, 151, 186

Le Caron, Henri, Twenty-Five Years in the Secret Service (1892), 13–14

Le Neveu, Roger, 118

Legge-Bourke, Harry, 182–3

Leipzig, 82

Lennox-Boyd, Alan, 159

Lewis, Kenneth, 206–7

Ley, Robert, 141

Lilley, Peter, 229, 233

Lindell, Mary, 120–3, 142, 156, 170–1

Longmore, Dickie, 107

Lonsdale, Gordon, 176

Lovat, Lord, 131

Luftwaffe, 31, 35, 46, 114

Luteyn, Abraham Pierre Tony, 79–87, 89–90

Lyons, 121–2

Lyttle, Noel, 258

MacDonald, Ramsay, 13

Macmillan, Harold, 160, 167, 192

Macmillan, Maurice, 133

Maginis, Sergeant, 38

Malraux, André, xvi

Maréchal family in Brussels, 117, 119

Marseilles, 94, 96–7, 99, 100–1

Marshall, Dr Walter, 187

Marten, Neil, 204–5

Mason, Roy, 234, 235, 236, 243

Mather, Carol, 176–7

Maude, Angus, 204–5, 221

Maugham, Robert, 20–1, 22

Maxwell Fyfe, Sir David, 142–3, 150–1

Maxwell Fyfe, Sylvia, 151

Mayhew, Patrick, 199

Maze prison, near Belfast, 8, 237–8, 240, 242, 256

McCann, George, 256

McCorquodale, Angus, 54–5

McCracken, Henry Joy, 239–40

McDonald, Henry, 254

McGahey, Mick, 193

McGuinness, Martin, 229

McLaren, Nancy, 181

McManus, Jake, 242

McNally, Robert, 253

McNee, Sir David, 246, 248

McNichol, John ‘Eddy’, 238, 240, 241

media, 178, 181, 193–4, 202, 203, 205, 206, 221–2, 243

Merton College, Oxford, 22–6

Merton Floats (college drama group), 24, 77

Mescall, J. M., 135

MI9 (escape and evasion organisation): importance of, 60; founding and early years of, 91–3; ‘Pat Line’ escape chain, 93–102, 104, 109, 116, 118, 119; Andrée de Jongh (‘Dédée’), 96, 111–16, 117–18, 119, 153, 155, 188; lack of radios and operators, 101, 119, 121; Iberian operations, 101–2, 113–14, 116, 122; AN interrogated by, 103; AN recruited by, 104–5; AN’s service in, 55, 60, 96, 104–5, 109–16, 120–4, 125–36, 155–6; IS 9(d) (based at Room 900), 105, 109–12, 123–4, 127, 136; and MIS-X (American counterparts), 109; AN starts work in Room 900, 109–12; ‘Comète’ escape line, 111–12, 113–16, 117–18, 119, 123–4, 130; AN runs female agents, 7, 112, 113, 115–16, 120–3, 155–6; de Jonghs move to Paris, 114–15; seaborne operations, 116–17, 123; Maréchal disaster, 117, 119; German intelligence penetration of networks, 117–18; Nazi brutality against resisters, 119; losses of operatives, 120, 123–4, 129–30, 140; mistakes and misjudgements, 120; ‘Shelburne’ operations (early 1944), 123; and Normandy invasion, 125–9; IS9 (Western European Area), 127, 131, 133, 136, 179; GHQ Liaison Regiment (‘Phantom’), 131; and Bachenheimer disaster, 132–3; No. 9 Intelligence School TA, 152; AN keeps in touch with old agents, 155–6

Michiels, Victor, 119

Middleton, Donald, 57

Middleweek, Helene (Baroness Hayman), 189

Midweek (BBC TV programme), 178, 221–2

military intelligence see MI9 (escape and evasion organisation); secret and military intelligence

Mill Green Park, Ingatestone, 103, 106

Milne, Keith, 57

‘monetarist’ theory, 206, 220, 228

Montgomery, Fergus, 218

Moore, Charles, 211

Morelle, Elvire, 120

Morrison, Sara, 202

Mosley, Oswald, 26

Motor Gun Boats, 123

Murdoch, Rupert, 183–4

Myrmidons (Merton club), 23–4

Nasser, Abdel, 159

National Government (from 1931), 13

National Union of Mineworkers, 180, 192–4, 195, 200

Nazi Germany: AN’s stay in Berlin (1933), 17–20, 137, 149; AN’s views war as inevitable, 20, 27–8; view of youth of Britain, 25–6; annexes Austria (1938), 27; invasion of France and Low Countries (May 1940), 29–49; cruelty of Polish occupation, 65–8; and Krupp works in Essen, 138–9; Britons illegally in concentration camps, 170–1

Neave, Airey, books: They Have Their Exits (1953), 52–3, 153; Little Cyclone (1954), 112, 153, 188; Saturday at MI9 (1969), 52–3, 153; The Flames of Calais (1972), 42, 50, 153; Nuremberg (1978), 153, 183

Neave, Airey, character/qualities: as enigmatic, detached and unknowable, xv, 4–5, 6, 14, 137–8; frequent depressions, xv–xvi, 106, 107, 109, 127, 136, 170, 182, 183, 185; bravery and courage, xvi, 22, 41–3, 248–9; fundamental decency, xvi, 106, 165, 170–1, 264–5; patriotism, xvi, 22, 161; touchiness/sensitivity to criticism, xvi, 182, 219, 232; vanity, xvi, 155, 184, 210–11; and alcohol, 2, 6, 23, 90, 144, 167; careless attitude to his health, 2, 167–8; physical appearance, 5, 144, 156, 190; hatred of country pursuits, 6; soft voice and retiring manner, 6, 158, 176, 190; as quasi-feminist, 7, 96, 115–16, 191–2; hatred of his name, 11; enjoyment of food, 15, 58; as sceptical of authority, 15–16, 24, 50–1; emotional restraint, 19, 38, 131; and amateur theatricals, 24, 77; resilience and determination, 39, 48–9, 61–2, 170–1, 265; attitude to Germans, 52, 83, 130, 137–8; and religion, 69, 183; impact of Second World War on, 70, 154–6; Rudolf Hess case, 83, 130, 141, 172; scientific interests, 148–9, 156–7, 158, 173–4, 188; strong belief in capital punishment, 161, 172, 228, 233; semi-detached approach to parenting, 163–7; sense of justice as impartial, 172

Neave, Airey, military career: early interest in soldiering, 12, 104–5; zeal not matched by natural aptitude, 12; in Territorial Army, 26–7, 104–5, 152, 157, 158, 179–80; and defence of Calais (May 1940), 29, 30, 31–49, 50–1, 154; military service in early part of War, 29–30, 31–49, 50–1; wounded at Calais, 44–5, 47–9, 50, 154; capture of at Calais, 49, 50, 52–4; impulse to escape, 52–3, 55, 57, 60–8; initial meek acceptance of capture, 53–4, 56; at POW hospital in Lille, 53–5; at Oflag IXA/H (in castle of Spangenberg), 56–8; at Stalag XXa (Thorn, Poland), 59–64, 69; escape from Stalag XXa, 60–8; Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 66, 137–8, 139–45, 150–1, 172, 179; captured near Ilow, 68–9; Gestapo interrogations of, 69–70; at Colditz, 70, 71–82, 137; first Colditz escape attempt, 73–5; escape from Colditz, 78–87, 88–9, 137, 154–5, 183–4; in Switzerland, 88–93, 94–5; crosses Pyrenees, 101, 115; return to Britain (May 1942), 102, 103–4; and survivor guilt, 106; awarded MC, 107; awarded DSO, 137; and Krupp works in Essen, 138–9

Neave, Airey, personal life: birth of (23 January 1916), 11; elite background of, 10–11; education before Eton, 11; at Eton, 9–10, 11–17, 20–2, 164; relationship with mother, 16, 106; relationship with father, 16–17, 24, 27, 106, 165; stay in Berlin (1933), 17–20, 137, 149; friendships, 20–2, 24–5, 131; at Merton College, Oxford, 22–6; early legal career, 27, 137; gains third class degree, 27; and women, 6–7, 95–6, 107, 115–16, 120–1, 163–4, 188–90, 191–2; meets and marries Diana (1942), 107–8; marriage as partnership, 7, 108–9, 154, 259–60; maisonette at 39 Elizabeth Street, 108, 162; as junior barrister in post-war London, 151; writes two thrillers, 153; lives at Old Vicarage, Ashbury, 162, 166–7, 184–5, 186–8, 190, 210, 214, 236–7; London homes after 1945, 162; heart attack (1959), 167–9; personal security arrangements, 2–3, 237, 247–8, 254–5; assassination of (30 March 1979), 1–4, 7–8, 246–7, 249–61, 265; police/security force investigation into murder of, 7, 249–53, 255–8; identity of killers of, 7–8, 255–8, 260–1; funeral and grave at Hinton Waldrist, 7, 263, 265;

Neave, Airey, political life: politics while at Eton, 12–13, 19–20; politics at Oxford, 24–5; growing interest in politics, 27–8; decides on political career, 149–51, 152; enters parliament as MP for Abingdon, 146–9, 151, 156; causes pursued, 148–9, 156–8, 170–8; political views as difficult to pin down, 150, 172–3, 174, 188, 264–5; hard line on IRA, 156, 161, 228, 230–3, 234–5, 236, 242–3, 260; maiden speech in Commons, 156–7; contributions in Commons, 156–8, 161, 171, 231–2, 234; as parliamentary private secretary, 158–9; as mainstream, modernising Tory, 6, 160–1, 174; as joint parliamentary secretary, 161; Under-Secretary of State at the Air Ministry, 161; as mediocre speaker, 6, 161, 171; absorption in political life, 161–3, 164; constituency homes, 162; reputation as enemy of Heath, 168–9, 179, 194, 207–9; return to back benches, 168–9; story of falling-out with Heath (1959), 168–9, 208, 209; doubts over political career in early 70s, 170, 183; and lessons of the war, 171–2; liberal views on immigration, 172–3; as delegate to UNHCR, 173; directorships while in parliament, 173–4, 175, 214; chairs select committee on science and technology, 174, 188; as a governor of Imperial College, 174; and right-wing coup rumours (1974), 176–7; supports Heath’s trade union strategy, 180–1; Thatcher’s visits to Old Vicarage, 186–8, 190, 210; dines with anti-Heath conspirators, 197–8; elected to 1922 Committee Executive, 198; throws party for new intake of MPs (May 1974), 199; party at Westminster Gardens (July 1974), 199–200; and leadership issue (1974–5), 202–14, 215–17; Milk Street affair, 204–5, 219; meeting with Heath (December 1974), 208–9; runs Thatcher’s leadership campaign, 1, 168, 176, 217–25; shadow Northern Ireland portfolio, 1–2, 70, 161, 182, 226–7, 228–38, 242–4; heads Thatcher’s private office, 227; and fall of Callaghan government, 244

Neave, Airey, secret intelligence career: MI9 service, 55, 60, 96, 104–5, 109–16, 120–4, 125–36, 155–6; ‘Pat Line’ escape route, 93–102; and ‘Dédée’, 96, 111–12, 113, 115–16, 153, 155, 188; ‘Saturday’ code name, 110; losses of MI9 operatives, 120, 123–4, 129–30, 140; and Mary Lindell, 120–3, 142, 156, 170–1; and Beatrix Terwindt, 122, 188; and ‘Shelburne’ operations (early 1944), 123; and Normandy, 125–9; ‘Sherwood’ plan, 125–9; Forêt de Fréteval episode, 126–8, 131–2; saves Chartres Cathedral, 128–9; in Paris (summer 1944), 129–30; and Nijmegen survivors (Pegasus), 130–6, 137; and Pegasus II operation, 135–6; in Amsterdam on VE Day, 136; takes charge of Room 900, 136; commands No. 9 Intelligence School TA, 152; keeps in touch with old agents, 155–6; intelligence connections in civilian life, 175–6, 212, 235

Neave, Caroline (ancestor), 10

Neave, Diana (née Giffard, wife): family estate in Staffordshire, 6, 107–8, 129, 163, 165, 166; background of, 108; meets and marries AN (1942), 107–8; marriage as partnership, 7, 108–9, 154, 259–60; connection with the Poles, 108, 143; wartime intelligence work, 108–9; persuades AN to write Nuremberg, 141; and AN’s political career, 148, 151, 162, 183, 185, 187, 195, 197, 199–200, 227; lives at Old Vicarage, Ashbury, 162, 166–7, 184–5, 186–8, 190, 210, 214, 236–7; semi-detached approach to parenting, 163–7; on Heath, 181, 199; and Thatcher, 188, 190, 224; security fears at Ashbury, 236–7; on AN’s personal security, 248; and death of AN, 2, 3, 259–60; as Baroness Airey of Abingdon, 260; grave at Hinton Waldrist, 263

Neave, Digby (brother), 16, 165

Neave, Dorothy (mother, née Middleton), 11, 16, 106

Neave, Iris Averil (sister), 16

Neave, Marigold (eldest child), 16, 108, 129, 148, 151, 168, 184, 190, 199; on AN’s single-mindedness, 162, 163, 164; education of, 163–4; marriage to Richard, 164, 166–7, 184, 199, 200; and AN’s alcohol problem, 167; on AN’s choice of Northern Ireland, 226, 227; and AN’s death, 259

Neave, Philippa (niece), 165

Neave, Richard Patrick (son), 151, 162–3, 164–5, 166–7, 168, 184–5, 237, 248

Neave, Rosamund (sister), 16

Neave, Sheffield Airey (father), 10–11, 13, 16–17, 24, 27, 106; inherits Mill Green Park, 103; marries Mary Hodges, 106, 165

Neave, Sheffield Henry Morier (grandfather), 10, 103

Neave, Viola (sister), 16

Neave, William (son), 22, 70, 148, 151, 162–3, 164–5, 166–7, 184, 227, 248

Nicholson, Claude, 33, 34, 40, 46–7, 49, 51

Nicholson, Emma, 189

Nijmegen, 56, 130–6, 179

Normandy, 125–9

Northern Engineering Industries (Clarke Chapman), 173, 174, 196, 248

Northern Ireland: Bennett Report into police interrogation methods, 70; political landscape in 1975, 226–7; AN as shadow Secretary of State, 1–2, 70, 161, 182, 226–7, 228–38, 242–4; Sunningdale Agreement (1973), 227, 229, 230, 233–4; AN’s attitude to Unionists, 229; Do You Sincerely Want to Win? (Bow Group booklet), 229; internment in, 230, 237; ‘special category status’ for prisoners, 230; bipartisan approach to Troubles, 230–1, 234, 242–3; AN’s Unionist sympathies, 232–4, 242–3; AN’s regional council initiative (1978), 234, 243, 260, 264; AN and intelligence services, 235; and fall of Callaghan government, 244

Nothomb, Jean-François, 114–15, 118, 129–30

Nouveau, Louis, 96–7, 99, 101, 118

Nouveau, Renée, 97, 99, 101

nuclear power, 148, 156–7, 158, 173, 174

Nuremberg prison, 140–1

Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, 66, 137–8, 139–45, 150–1, 172, 179

O’Hara, Patsy, 241, 256

Old Vicarage, Ashbury, 162, 166–7, 184–5, 186–8, 190, 210, 214, 236–7

‘O’Leary, Pat’ (Albert-Marie Guérisse), 97–8, 100–1, 116, 118, 119, 153

OPEC, 193

Oppenheim, E. Phillips, 94

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 Northern 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