The Baghdad Set_ Iraq through the Eyes of British Intelligence, 1941–45
50 tor; the ‘terrorist’ methods he had employed to stifle all opposition and compel public expression of support all combined to ...
51 Accompanied by an administrative staff of five, Fritz Grobba (code- named ‘Franz Gehrke’ to deceive British intelligence) fle ...
52 element. Because their numbers were insufficient for nationwide opera- tions, their activities were isolated, intermittent, a ...
53 Me-110 fighter-bombers) were deployed against a superior British force 10 times larger; which was well trained, supplied, and ...
54 other way of arming the aircraft, possibly with German aid, the British decided to sabotage them on the ground. To this end, ...
55 was killed on 20 May in the desert west of Baghdad during a bombing attack by three Luftwaffe He-111 bombers.^25 One source h ...
56 Once the defeated Iraqi rebels had disbanded and dispersed at the end of May 1941, with some (the leaders) fleeing across the ...
57 Philipp Schröder, Deutschland und der Mittlere Osten im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Musterschmidt, 1975); Schröder, Irak 19 ...
58 For details of the Luftwaffe air campaign in Iraq, see: Martin Drewes, Sand und Feuer: Jagdflieger im Irak und über Deutschl ...
59 88–121. Martin Kolinsky (Britain’s War, 145–69) has done an excellent ‘dot-connecting’ job, accurately situating the operatio ...
60 Even Hitler himself was sceptical about the transfer of air forces to Iraq and the existence of sufficient aviation-fuel sup ...
61 Mandatory Palestine’, unpublished paper given at SMH, 2012. In a min- ute dated 28 December 1945 attached to the SOE history, ...
© The Author(s) 2019 63 A. O’Sullivan, The Baghdad Set, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15183-6_4 CHAPTER 4 Restoring the Peac ...
64 simple sunny optimism. Freya Stark realized all too well that it could not be assumed that Iraq’s political difficulties were ...
65 The departure of the ex-Mufti at the end of May and the Italian lega- tion on 9 June had undoubtedly deprived pro-Axis and an ...
66 restore law and order, the British diplomats and political advisers under Cornwallis, and the intelligence and security force ...
67 (1913–1915), as an APA in Mesopotamia (1915–1917), and in southwest Persia (1917–1918). In the immediate aftermath of the int ...
68 Besides, Cornwallis had no doubt instructed Perowne to keep Bishop’s buccaneers at arm’s length. By the end of July 1941, CIC ...
69 Suddenly, she realized the potential that existed for using Italians against their own political masters. Soon after transfer ...
70 afternoons, sailing with Stewart Perowne, my information officer, up and down the bay of Aden, beyond the reach of submarines ...
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