Whicker’s War
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Alan Whicker. Whicker’s War
WHICKER’S WAR. ALAN WHICKER
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
THAT EARLY SUMMER DAWN IN SICILY…
BEING SHOT WAS FOR ANOTHER DAY…
A LONG LIFE WAS NOT IN THE SCRIPT…
HIS MAJESTY GOT A WRONG NUMBER…
THEY ASKED FOR IT – AND THEY WILL NOW GET IT…
THEY ENLISTED THE GODFATHER…
I STILL FEEL RATHER GUILTY ABOUT THAT…
VERY BAD JOKES INDEED…
A PASSING GLANCE AT PARADISE…
STRUGGLING TO GET TICKETS FOR THE FIRST CASUALTY LIST…
THEY DIED WITHOUT ANYONE EVEN KNOWING THEIR NAMES…
I’M AFRAID WE’RE NOT QUITE READY FOR YOU YET…
YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD HIM SCREAMING…
HITLER WOULD HAVE HAD HIM SHOT…
A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH HER TEETH KNOCKED OUT…
OUT-GUNNED ON ONE SIDE, OUT-SCREAMED ON THE OTHER…
I HAVE COME TO RESCUE YOU…
THE CALL-BACK SEEMED WORSE THAN THE CALL-UP…
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO TIME MARCHING ON…?
THE SAGA OF THE D-DAY DODGERS…
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PRAISE. WHAT THE REVIEWERS THOUGHT
PICTURE CREDITS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
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Dedicated to the men of
the Army Film and Photo Unit
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There was a brief pause while the armies digested their victory and prepared for the next invasion, and at the beginning of May ’43 our life became almost social. It was spring and, what’s more, we were still alive. We requisitioned a villa at Sidi Bou Saïd, near Carthage. It overlooked the Bay of Tunis and had indoor sanitation, to which we had grown unaccustomed.
My Austin utility was still bent from the weight of jubilant Tunisiennes, so to support our celebrations I had liberated a splendid German staff car, an Opel Kapitan in Wehrmacht camouflage. We were not supposed to use unauthorised transport, so along the German bonnet we craftily painted some imaginary but official-looking numbers – my home telephone number, if you must know.
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