War Resistance & Intelligence

Essays in Honour of M.R.D. Foot

K. G. Robertson

• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN: 9780850526899
• eBook ISBN: 9781473820487
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World War II
• Index: History

A collection of authoritative and often controversial essays that will hold the attention of even the most informed reader. This fascinating book covers such important and relevant topics as Churchill and the Secret Services, ULTRA codebreaking and Soviet espionage and much more.

CONTENTS

	Notes on Contributors
K.G. Robertson	Introduction
John Roberts	Foreword
SECTION 1: WAR
Christopher Woods	A Tale of Two Armistices
Kathleen Burk	An Oxford Don at War: A.J.P Taylor 1939–1945
P.M.H. Bell	Britain between France and the United States, 1944
Peter Lowe	Great Britain and Douglas MacArthur: War and Peace in the Pacific and Asia, 1941–1951
John Lukacs	Historical Revisionism about the origins of the wars of the 20th century
Ian Kershaw	War and ‘ethnic cleansing’: the case of the ‘Warthegau’
SECTION 2: RESISTANCE
Bill Deakin	The Emergence of Colonel Mihailovic by Radio
Ralph White	Teaching The Free Man how to Praise Michael Foot on SOE and Resistance in Europe
Mark Seaman	Good thrillers, but bad history: A review of published works on the Special Operations Executive’s work in France during the Second World War
H.R. Kedward	Resistance: the discourse of personality
SECTION 3: INTELLIGENCE
David Stafford	Churchill and Intelligence: His Early Life
Hugh Verity	Some RAF Pick-ups for French Intelligence
E.R.D. Harrison	‘Something Beautiful for “C”’: Malcolm Muggeridge in Lourenço Marques
Christopher Andrew	The Venona Secret
Peter Hennessy	The Itch after the Amputation? The purposes of British Intelligence as the Century Turns: an Historical Perspective and a Forward Look
Mirjam Foot	Select Bibliography – 1998
	Index

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

K.G. Robertson is a Director of AnalyticA Research Ltd, a company at the forefront of new approaches to intelligence management. During his academic career at the University of Reading he played a leading role in developing Intelligence studies in the UK. He was the inspiration behind the formation of both ‘The Study Group On Intelligence’ (1982) and the ‘Security and Intelligence Studies Group’ (1993), a specialist group of the Political Studies Association. They have established themselves as the leading UK bodies for the academic study of security and Intelligence issues. His six books include Secrecy and Open Government (1999), British and American Approaches to Intelligence (1987) and Public Secrets (1982).

John Roberts was Warden, Merton College Oxford and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton. He is the author of eight books, including History of the World (1976) and The Triumph of the West (1985).

Christopher Woods joined the Army from school and fought in the Italian Campaign, starting in the south with the Eighth Army and finishing in the north with SOE, having skipped the middle by joining No 1 Special Force and being parachuted as a British Liaison Officer with Italian partisans for the last nine months in the Veneto. Having volunteered for further service with SOE in Asia, he arrived to find the war against Japan over, but spent a year in Java and Sumatra attached to British Forces holding the ring as the Dutch East Indies became Indonesia. He studied history and Russian at Cambridge, joined the Foreign Office and fought the Cold War, serving in Persia, Cyprus and Europe East and West. After retirement, he acted as SOE Adviser in the FCO in charge of the SOE Archive. He is now writing the official history of SOE in Italy.

Born in California and educated at Berkeley and Oxford, Kathleen Burk is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at University College, London. A specialist in Anglo-American relations and economic diplomacy, she is the author of a number of books, including Britain, America and the Sinews of War 1914–1918 (1985), Morgan Grenfell 1838–1988: the Biography of a Merchant Bank (1989) and (with Alec Cairncross) ‘Good-bye, Great Britain’: The 1976 IMF Crisis (1992), as well as the Editor of the journal Contemporary European History, which is published by Cambridge. Currently completing The Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor, to be published in 2000, she is embarking on a book on the Marshall Plan from the European perspective.

P.M.H. Bell is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow and formerly Reader in History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Disestablishment in Ireland and Wales (1969); A Certain Eventuality: Britain and the Fall of France (1974); The Origins of the Second World War in Europe (1986, 2nd Ed., 1997); France and Britain 1900–1940: Entente and Estrangement (1996); France and Britain 1940–1994: The Long Separation (1997). He gave the Churchill Lecture at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, in March, 1999, on ‘Churchill and France during the Second World War’.

Peter Lowe is Reader in History in the University of Manchester. Among his recent publications are Containing the Cold War in East Asia: British Policies towards Japan, China and Korea, 1948–53 (Manchester University Press, 1997), The Origins of the Korean War second edition (Longman, 1997) and (editor), The Vietnam War (Macmillan, 1998).

John Lukacs, now retired, is the author of many books and studies in diplomatic and international and cultural history, of which the best known in England are The Last European War, 1939–1941 The Hitler of History, The Thread of Years, and the very recently published Five Days in London, May 1940.

Ian Kershaw is Professor of Modern History at the University of Sheffield and one of the world’s leading authorities on Nazism. He was the historical advisor on the BBC series, ‘The Nazis: A warning from History’. His ten books include The Nazi Dictatorship (1985), Stalinism and Nazism 1997) and most recently the first volume of his biography of the Nazi leader Hitler 1889–1932: Hubris.

Sir William Deakin led the first British mission to Tito in 1943. After a distinguished diplomatic career he was appointed Warden of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He is the author of The Brutal Friendship (1962) and Embattled Mountain (1971).

Ralph White is Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. He is the editor, with Stephen Haws of Resistance in Europe, 1939–1945, Allen Lane, 1975.

Mark Seaman is a Historian with the Research and Information Office in the Imperial War Museum. Having joined the staff in 1980 he has specialized in the field of Resistance, Intelligence and Special Operations during the Second World War and was responsible for the IWM’s 1984 exhibition ‘European Resistance to Nazi Germany’ and the more recent permanent gallery ‘Secret War’. In October 1998 he organized a three-day conference at the Museum on the Special Operations Executive.

He has written extensively on his specialist subjects. His latest published works include an introduction to the Public Record Office’s Operation Foxley, The British Plan to Kill Hitler and Bravest of the Brave, a biography of the Special Operations Executive agent, Wing Commander F.F.E. Yeo-Thomas, GC MC*.

Professor of History at the University of Sussex, H.R. Kedward is currently researching a third volume of a trilogy on resistance in the southern regions of France. The published volumes are Resistance in Vichy France (1978) and In Search of the Maquis (1993). His work features the oral histories of French men and women at the grassroots of resistance as well as national and local archives. In 1989 he received the honour of Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, and the Maquis book was awarded the Prix Philippe Viannay – Défense de la France.

David Stafford, an Honorary Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at The University of Edinburgh, is the author of two books on SOE: Britain and European Resistance 1940–1945 (London and Toronto 1980) and Camp X: SOE and the American Connection (London, Toronto, New York 1986). His latest book is Churchill and Secret Service (London and Toronto 1997, New York 1998).

Group Captain Hugh Beresford Verity DSO and bar, DFC, MA. Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, Croix de Guerre avec Palme, RAF (ret’d) was educated at Cheltenham College and the Queen’s College, Oxford. He was learning to fly in the University Air Squadron in 1938 when he was commissioned in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 1943, he commanded the pick-up fligh...

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