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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE: Raid to assassinate Rommel rejected
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THE SPECIAL Operations Executive rejected a chance to assassinate
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel because it would have been a suicide
mission.
The opportunity arose in April 1943, when Montgomery had reversed
the Germans' supremacy in North Africa with his victory at Alamein
and Rommel had been pushed back to the Tunis coast. A plan was put
forward to send a four-man liquidation squad into Rommel's coastal
headquarters, say papers released by the Public Record Office.
No details ar...
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Events: Pick Of The Week - Medieval Christmas at the Public Record Office Mon to 22 Dec Public Record Office, Kew
The Independent - London
; If the thought of spending the entire Christmas holiday surrounded by your relatives doesn't exactly fill you with festive cheer, then perhaps a celebration at the Public Record Office will offer a welcome interlude. As part of "Christmas Past", historians at Kew will be imparting wisdom on a
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Public Record Office: The day an Iron Curtain almost fell on Shakespeare's saucy scenes PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime
The Independent - London
; A RACY Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the cause of a diplomatic crisis when it toured behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, the Public Record Office reveals today. The heat generated between the characters of Bottom and Titania alarmed the socialist
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Public Record Office: The day an Iron Curtain almost fell on Shakespeare's saucy scenes; PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; A RACY Royal Shakespeare Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream was the cause of a diplomatic crisis when it toured behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, the Public Record Office reveals today. The heat generated between the characters of Bottom and Titania alarmed the socialist
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London Transport Records at the Public Record Office
The Journal of Transport History
; Peter Bancroft, London Transport Records at the Public Record Office, Part 1, Nebulous Books, 11 Oliver Rise, Alton, Hants. GU34 2BN (1996), 96 pp., 1750. A considerable element of chance affects the results of any visit to the Public Record Office at Kew. For first-time visitors the array of
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Public Record Office: Gerry Adams seen as `man of peace' PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime
The Independent - London
; THE SINN FEIN leader Gerry Adams was described as a man of peace who was tired of life on the run with the IRA after a secret meeting with government officials in 1972. The meeting between Mr Adams, then aged 23, and Daithi O'Conaill, an IRA leader now dead, and the government official, Philip
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Public Record Office: Gerry Adams seen as `man of peace'; PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; THE SINN FEIN leader Gerry Adams was described as a man of peace who was tired of life on the run with the IRA after a secret meeting with government officials in 1972. The meeting between Mr Adams, then aged 23, and Daithi O'Conaill, an IRA leader now dead, and the government official, Philip
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Public Record Office: Heath's inquiry found he was the source of leak PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime
The Independent - London
; EDWARD HEATH launched an inquiry into the leak of sensitive information while he was Prime Minister, only to be informed that he himself was the source of the disclosure. He was reluctant to authorise the top-level Whitehall inquiry into a story in The Times that the Cabinet was due to discuss an
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Public Record Office: Heath's inquiry found he was the source of leak; PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE Newly released documents reveal a `respectable' IRA chief, ministers' plans for an island asylum and how the Royal Shakespeare Company defied protests by a Communist regime.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; EDWARD HEATH launched an inquiry into the leak of sensitive information while he was Prime Minister, only to be informed that he himself was the source of the disclosure. He was reluctant to authorise the top-level Whitehall inquiry into a story in The Times that the Cabinet was due to discuss an
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Exploding rats sent in to destroy Nazi factories PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE: Newly released documents show how the SOE used fishcakes and wine bottles in war against Hitler
The Independent - London
; AN INSPIRATION for Q, the gadget-mad scientist of the Bond films, was revealed yesterday among 50-year-old state secrets. The sabotage tricks of the Special Operations Executive, responsible for clandestine action behind enemy lines, were disclosed in files released by the Public Record Office. One
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Fleet Air Arm In Camera: Archive Photgraphs From the Public Record Office and the Fleet Air Arm Museum
Sea Power
; FLEET AIR ARM IN CAMERA: Archive Photographs From the Public Record Office and the Fleet Air Arm Museum, by Roger Hayward. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1996. This photographic history of Royal Navy aviation covers the period from 1912 to 1996 in a striking series of images of
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