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A Very English Hero: The Making of Frank Thompson by Peter J Conradi
Winston Churchill, Myth and Reality. Please note that this product is not available for purchase from Bloomsbury. Gentle, modest and handsome, a fine poet, proficient in nine languages, eccentric Englishman Frank Thompson made an unlikely soldier. The elder of two sons of a formidable family of writers his brother would become the radical historian E. Thompson , lover of Iris Murdoch, he was an intellectual idealist, a rare combination of brilliant mind and enormous heart.
Despite his mother's best efforts, and the Communist Party line Iris had herself recruited him , in September Frank enlisted. Serving first with the Royal Artillery, then Phantom, finally moving to SOE to escape the 'long littleness of life', he documented his wartime experiences.
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F rank Thompson is better known in Britain as brother of the historian EP Thompson , but in Bulgaria he is a national hero. Attached during the second world war to Special Operations Executive SOE , he was parachuted into the Balkans to work with Bulgarian partisans ; after two weeks of eating salted leaves and live wood-snails, he was captured, tortured and murdered by the Nazis.
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There are several versions of Frank Thompson's execution aged 23 in June In one, pipe between teeth, he raised a clenched fist, the salute of the Fatherland Front ; in another, he was pumped full of bullets while distracted in a ditch. Peter J Conradi 's aim in this impeccably researched book is to establish the truth of Frank's final scenes and to understand how it was that a Communist, an intellectual and a poet — his finest poem, An Epitaph for my Friends, describes young men leaving "our books and flowers" to go to war — could have marched with such suicidal determination to his death.
The least military of men, Frank was clumsy, chaotic, gentle and rebellious; he described himself when he joined the army as having become "a professional murderer". Thompson belonged to a historical moment as "remote" from us, Conradi writes, as the Romantic period of the early 19th century, "of which his heroic age was the last flowering". EP, younger than his adored brother by four years, described Frank's generation as "too bloody innocent by half… too open to the world, and too loyal to each other to live".
What is striking is how conscious Frank was of his Romantic legacy: Few men have penned more epitaphs for themselves, or planned with more precision their heroic endings. I must seek an early death to keep my flame untarnished and immortal.